Executive vice president Arturas Karnišovas held his season-ending news conference on Saturday and, in his opening statement, said he “wanted to kind of take you on a journey where we started.”

That should’ve been the first clue to how he answered the final question to the nearly 27-minute session: Would he undertake another full rebuild, like the one the previous Chicago Bulls’ managerial regime undertook in 2017 by trading Jimmy Butler?

“That’s been thrown around all this season—‘blow up, rebuild.’ It’s not on our minds,” Karnišovas said. “I think the moment we changed our minds in the 20-21 season to kind of focus on winning and try to build a sustainable program here, I think that’s what we’re focused on right now. How we can help this group and how we can improve from this year? That’s what our offseason’s goal is going to look like. We’re going to consider everything and how we can compete with the top teams.”

So if that’s not Karnišovas’ well-worn proclamation of continuity, it’s close.

Yes, Karnišovas emphatically stated the need to address the Bulls’ woeful 3-point shooting, which ranked last in both makes and attempts. The Bulls were the only team in the league to attempt fewer than 30 3-point attempts per game.

And he said he’s always looking to add physicality to help limit opponent second-chance points and for the pursuit of 50-50 loose balls.