Help Wanted: Bulls future guards needed and 10-week tryout required

Anfernee Simons and the rest of the Bulls’ recent acquisitions are basically in a 10-week job interview, but he had a unique take on the situation.

“I think even before [the trade], it was always going to be a job interview with this being the last year of my contract,” said Simons, 26. “I’ve just got to make the most out of these last couple of months here, start building chemistry with the guys and see where that goes.”

By adding four guards in the week leading up to the trade deadline, the Bulls gave themselves 30 games — including Saturday — to evaluate Simons, Collin Sexton, Rob Dillingham and Jaden Ivey.

Like Simons, Sexton is in the last year of his contract and will become an unrestricted free agent; Ivey will be a restricted free agent. Dillingham is on his rookie contract, but considering how poorly things were going for him with the Timberwolves, the Bulls need to figure out what the problem was and if it’s fixable.

It’s not an ideal situation considering the Bulls are in a rebuild — or, as executive vice president Arturas Karnisovas says, a new “stage’’ — and every decision has consequences.

“At the end of the day, I tell myself, ‘Hey, just be where the feet are at,’ ’’ Sexton said of his approach to the rest of the season. “Don’t look too far in advance, and when I’m doing that, I feel like I’m at my best. Just give it my all for this organization, give my all to this team, show them what I can do.

‘‘I just know that’s something I can control. Every day coming in with the right energy. Being a true professional is something I can control, and the rest will take care of itself.”

That’s where coach Billy Donovan comes in.

Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley can watch the basketball part of their new contingent of guards, but it’s Donovan who’ll be with the players on an almost-daily basis between now and mid-April.

“A lot of it comes down to the way I look at it from the lens of the mentality piece,” Donovan said Saturday.

“That’s kind of what I’m looking at. To me, it’s more of the competitiveness, the mentality. How are they in the locker room, how are they as teammates, can they follow game-plan discipline? It’s all those types of things.”

Donovan admitted that he had a meeting with the front office Friday to figure out playing time and if there was an edict on a minutes priority. After all, it would make sense to see more of Dillingham and Ivey because they’re more likely to be kept, but Donovan said there was none of that.

“I think the feeling from the front office was they wanted to see all these guys that are in here right now,” Donovan said. “It hasn’t been, ‘Hey, we want you to play this guy, this guy.’

‘‘They want these guys to compete, see how well they can fit in with how we’ve been trying to play.”

That’s music to Dillingham’s ears. He was begging for a new start after 1œ seasons with the T-wolves and diminishing minutes.

Job interview? For Dillingham, it almost feels like a career change.

“I’m just trying to show I can play basketball, I belong here and I can help the team win,” Dillingham said.

“I’m not looking at it as something specific.”