With the Chicago Bulls at 9-7 in the 2025-26 NBA Regular Season, and after a narrow home win over the struggling Washington Wizards , Nikola Vucevic was well shy of needing to celebrate.

“We just didn’t play up to NBA standards,” explained the 35-year-old Montenegrin center in a postgame media session following Saturday’s contest in United Center.

Six out of the nine wins so far have been achieved by a margin of four points or less, including two behind a game-winning buzzer-beater by Vucevic.

“I don’t think we really understand that it’s just not sustainable to play this way. We won, obviously. It’s hard to win in this league. We know we had a tough stretch, a lot of games. It’s good that we get to win, but we have to understand that it’s not going to keep happening for us this wa

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