We’ve all had that moment, one day we wake up and it seems like everyone around is experiencing or doing great things and we’re sitting on the couch in our underwear eating soggy cereal.

Well, even if you haven’t, this is effectively the scenario playing out in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls.

The Champion Miami Heat have brought three point sniper Ray Allen into their fold, while the newly minted Brooklyn Nets have, for better or worse, cleared their cap space and brought in former Chicago coveted Joe Johnson, and resigned Deron Williams.

The Nets are also still figuring out a way to acquire Dwight Howard, which on paper, would essentially make them the favorites for this upcoming season.

Now queue Gar Forman, sitting on his couch, eating presumably raisin bran or fiber one, because he seems like an intelligent person, but not using his phone.

The general consensus seems to be that the Bulls were at the least, an NBA Conference finals team last season, if it were not for many injuries, though mostly just the one to Derrick Rose.

The Bulls have seemingly agreed in principal to bring back fan favorite Kirk Hinrich, and they have signed their first-round draft pick, Marquis Teague.

Hinrich and Teague will serve as interim starts in place of Derrick, which will probably be passable, but Hinrich is coming off one of his worst seasons, albeit riddled with injuries, and Teague is an unknown commodity. My personal opinion, it’s a huge upgrade if CJ Watson doesn’t touch the ball as a point guard again.

They have also let the Houston Rockets kidnap Omer Asik, and may stand to lose their Turkish wunderkind if they don’t cough up $25 million in ransom. This has the Bulls by the short-hairs.

Without Derrick, the roster as currently assembled stands as possibly a seventh or eighth seed. This season seems at best a lovable loser scenario, which gets the organization that thought it was a contender, nowhere fast.

I won’t throw gasoline on the team and run for cover yet, but it will be hard to gauge what you have without a healthy Rose until probably the season after next. By that time, it will be really tough to get out from the mess they’re currently in.