Nobody's winning, here. The Chicago Bulls lost again on Thursday, two nights after they'd won again. This is the Jekyll and Hyde nature of a team caught in the midst of both a crisis of conscience and a crisis of confidence. The team fell to the lowly and tanking Los Angeles Lakers, working without Kobe Bryant, 48 hours after downing the mighty Golden State Warriors on GSW's home floor. That win was far from encouraging , though, and it came on the heels of a loss to Miami that followed two impressive wins over San Antonio and Dallas. The Spurs and Mavericks conquests almost felt like gifts, in a way, handed to Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau by the two most-esteemed members of his coaching brethren: Gregg Popovich and Rick Carlisle. Thibodeau's work in Chicago has long been both praised and questioned in equal amounts for good reasons, but his employment status was never in question until the days before those two wins over Texas teams. Popovich and ABC/ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy spoke up on Thibodeau's behalf last week, leading to an angry Bulls vice president in John Paxson firing back in local papers, calling Van Gundy "pathetic" and demanding an apology in ways that were just as...