NBA Power Rankings: Cavaliers are right where they want to be

24. The Chicago Bulls have gotten off to one of the more unexpected starts to begin a season that I can remember. This team had everyone scratching their heads when they were first formed and they still are shaking their heads now. Except this time the confusion comes from how the team is finding success instead of stumbling upon failure as they have in a good number of the post-Jordan years. <p>The greatest shooting team in all of basketball has been a little more East than many predicted heading into the season. The Chicago Bulls are hitting 38.8 percent from deep, third best in the NBA, and have six players shooting higher than 40 percent from three (Bobby Portis, Michael Carter-Williams, Jimmy Butler, Dwyane Wade, Doug McDermott, and Denzel Valentine). This unforeseen and math-defying hot streak has Fred Hoiberg looking like an offensive genius just one year after his own players (mostly Butler) were questioning if he even had the chops to cut it in the NBA.</p> <p>Maybe Hoiberg’s spaced out motion offense can be attributed for turning non shooters like Carter-Williams and Wade into the Windy City version of the Splash Brothers, but it’s more likely that we see these numbers regress back to the mean over time. For Chicago, the good shooting has been an added bonus, but this team has shown that it has what it takes to be in games night in and night out.</p> <p>Wade and Rondo have relinquished control of the team, and the ball, to Butler as they said they would in the offseason. The result has been a team that has been able to build cohesion quickly and gotten off on the right start to open the year. The Bulls look like they are well on their way to proving their doubters wrong.</p>. . . Chicago Bulls. 14. team