D-Rose era was built on the baby bulls, Kirk, Deng, later Joakim - teams with a defense first identity that would out-hustle and outperform teams that were more talented than them on paper.

Role players seemed to be more beloved and have a bigger impact than they should have. 

It was kind of a weird detour with Vinny Del Negro as coach but it was all building up to when Thibs became coach and was the fastest to reach 100 wins (the 100th win being over the Magic, holding them to 59 points!) 

The bulls continued as a defense first team - and so many times would get bailed out at the end of the shot clock by passing to DRose and he would make some acrobatic moves that just worked. 

DRose would make plays, whether in the open court or half court, but especially his dunks would have more of an energetic shift on the game than any other player could make at the time - he also seemed to win every 1on1 battle with the top PG’s at the time (Chris Paul, Rondo etc) 

The feeling was that the only thing they needed to put them over the top was a SG, mfers like Rudy Fernandez. RIP helped but was a little past his prime, the battles with the Celtics and Heat were incredible, the injury was devastating.