Ouch

And another one bites the dust, or at least goes on the disabled list.  Last Thursday, the Bulls announced forward Lauri Markkanen will miss four-six weeks due to a pelvis injury.  This is what they call in sports a real injury bug.

Markkanen joins forward Otto Porter Jr. (probably out for the season), center Wendell Carter Jr. and forwards Chandler Hutchison and Daniel Gafford, all of whom have missed significant time this season.  Even two-way contract player and swingman Max Strus from DePaul tore his ACL in December.  That is one nasty bug.

Or maybe not.  Could there be something else at play here?  After all, the Bulls are the team that sat by quietly while a botched spinal tap on Luol Deng in 2013 came fairly close to killing him.  Virtual silence from the front office and coaching staff led fans to think that Deng was somehow dogging it.  With an organization like that, who needs injuries?         

A bad front office plus a bad coaching staff leads to a badly constructed roster; just ask Bobby Portis and Niko Mirotic.  What we may have here is the human equivalent of trying to force square pegs into round holes.  Try it sometime.

In a perfect storm of bad, players can try to do too much or grow frustrated or careless.  When any or all of that happens, expect the injury bug to bite.