By the Numbers: What Actually Defines These Bulls

31-51 last season. Chicago finished 31-51, missing the playoffs for a fourth straight season and prompting Billy Donovan's exit. That record belongs to a roster since broken apart — Vucevic, White, Dosunmu, Huerter and more are gone. It sets the floor Tiago Splitter inherits, not a measure of this roster.

112.1 and 117.4. Last season Chicago's offense ranked 25th at 112.1, its defense 22nd at 117.4, for a net rating of -5.3, 23rd overall. Both ends were broken, not just one. It does not account for Nic Claxton and Norman Powell, neither of whom played a minute on that roster.

$161.5 million, $200.4 million. Camp payroll totals $161.5 million on 14 contracts, against a $165.0 million cap number and a $200.4 million luxury tax line. That gap is room to keep working the phones, not a promise Bryson Graham spends it before the opener.

17.0 points, 9.1 assists. Josh Giddey averaged 17.0 points, 8.3 rebounds and 9.1 assists last season, shooting 36.4 percent from three. Those numbers make him the offense's engine entering camp. They do not explain why he finished at just 54 games last season.

Four 20-point games in five. Tre Jones scored 20 or more off the bench four times in his last five games last season, turning a reserve role into a scoring habit. It says nothing about whether that role survives now that Buddy Hield, Brandon Boston and Drew Peterson are all fighting for the same minutes.

Plus-4.2, a lineup that's gone. The best five-man Bulls group last season — Vucevic, Huerter, Okoro, Giddey and Buzelis — posted a plus-4.2 net rating over 65 minutes across 13 games. Every player but Okoro, Giddey and Buzelis is off the roster now. It proves those three fit, not that the group repeats it.