Is it good that these young Bulls are winning?

The Chicago Bulls are on a roll. No, really. The once-proud owner of six NBA titles from the '90s has a total of 18 wins, and four have come since the All-Star break. One was a franchise scoring record, four-overtime winner, while another came against the Celtics. This is not the same team that was near mutiny after coach Fred Hoiberg was fired. This is a team that is having fun and playing confidently. 

But should it be? 

The Bulls have the fourth-worst record in the league. If the season ended today, they would have a 12.5 percent chance at the first pick, while the Cavaliers, Knicks and Suns each would have a 14 percent chance. But if the Bulls keep improving their record, the team's shot at the No. 1 pick diminishes. They could lose out on Zion Williamson, or whoever ends up going first in a not-so-deep draft. 

They will keep winning. They won't win enough games to claw to a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, but since Otto Porter Jr. was traded to the Bulls for Bobby Portis and Jabari Parker last month, they have been winning more often. In fact, the Bulls are 6-3 with Porter in the lineup.

And not only are they winning, but they're also having fun, an element that has been missing for much of the Bulls season.

“We’re starting to get into a little rhythm,” Zach LaVine said after the Bulls beat the Celtics. “We’re starting to have a little fun out there too."

LaVine and Lauri Markkanen, both expected to be a part of the Bulls core as they try to rebuild after years stuck in NBA purgatory, are finally playing together well. Against the Celtics, LaVine scored 42 and Markkanen scored 35, making it the first time two Bulls teammates scored 35 points or more in the same game since some guys named Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen did it.

In the four-overtime win in Atlanta, LaVine scored a career-high 47 points, and Markkanen grabbed 17 rebounds.

“This should make us even hungrier. We can do anything when we play well,” Markkanen said. “We didn’t play our best basketball, but we played our game. That’s what we need to focus on — executing down the stretch and playing defense; getting stops. It shows a lot of heart from the team.’’

Winning is part of what happens when two players, who the Bulls are building their franchise around, play well. The players aren't deaf to the outside world. It's not like they haven't heard about how the Bulls should tank or how they need Williamson to actually finish their rebuild.

But like the ragtag Cleveland Indians in "Major League," they aren't going to give up. No matter what it does to their draft position, the Bulls' young core is going to continue to play well together, and that's good news for the team's future.

Yet regardless of what the players do, the bigger problem, the problem that looms over every good move the Bulls make, the problem that hangs in the back of the minds of every Bulls fan excited over a win, the problem that even Williamson can't fix: John Paxson and Gar Forman run the team. 

The two have made so many baffling moves that I would need a different column just to catalog them all. Even if magic happens and the Bulls do get the No. 1 pick, could even Williamson save them despite GarPax's ineptitude? It's unlikely. 

As long as those two are in charge, the Bulls aren't going to do anything to keep pace with any Eastern Conference rivals, much less any team on the West Coast. So the young core may as well have some fun and win some games.