With an overall rating of 92, the Bulls are more talented than we are. Can we hang? Let's see!
Midway through the 1st Brewer collides with Speights on a dunk attempt by Brewer. Brewer is done and it looks bad. His ankle is messed up. He has to be helped off the court. We are down 12-8.
Word is that Brewer is done for the day and likely the series. We are tied at 14 with 4 minutes left in the quarter. Turner with 8 points already. Huge. Flu isn't slowing him down much.
Holiday picks up his 2nd foul. 30 seconds later Turner gets a 2nd on Rose. We go with our entire second unit with 3:30 left in the quarter. We are tied at 16.
We are down 24-23 at the end of 1. Good couple of minutes from the bench.
After a good 1st quarter, Turner had a very rough 2nd quarter while Rose hit a buzzer beater to end the half for a long 3.
We are down 46-38 at home. Despite the poor shooting, Turner is our leading scorer with 14 points.
We start off the 3rd quarter with a 10-0 run. Great defense. Better offense.
Rose and Deng with a big 3rd quarter for the Bulls. Iggy and Turner with a big quarter for us. We lead 70-69 at the end of 3. Turner has shook off his early poor shooting and is hitting everything now.
They have a 17-4 run while Iggy rests a few minutes. We are down 87-74. Can we come back with 6 minutes to go?
We close with 5 but Reggie Williams hits a big 3. Then, we close with 6 but only a minute left. If our bench did anything today, we win this game easily..
95-88 with 55 seconds left.
Iggy shoots a 3 and misses but Jefferson with a put back dunk! Holiday steals it and takes it all the way. 95-92. 35 seconds left!
Iggy steals a pass from Rose.. passes to Holiday who throws it up for a beautiful alley-oop to Iggy! 95-94. 8 seconds left.
They manage to keep away for 6 seconds. We foul Rose. He misses the 1st but makes the 2nd.
96-94, we are out of timeouts. We have to in bound at our baseline.. we roll it.. Holiday gets it as they press.. he runs.. shoots from midcourt.. off line.
We lose 96-94.
A rough home loss.
Rose is the player of the game with 25 points, 5 boards, 5 assists, and 4 steals. He had 4 turnovers. He shot 7 of 14.
Deng with 20 points and 6 boards. He shot 9 of 24.
Boozer with 17 points and 10 boards. Reggie Williams with 16 points.
Iggy led us with 32 points, 4 boards, 2 assists, and 3 turnovers. He shot 9 of 22.
Turner with 22 points, 6 boards, 5 assists, and 2 steals. 1 turnover. He shot 7 of 16.
Jefferson with 10 points and 12 boards. He shot 5 of 10.
Speights with 9 points, 10 boards, and a block. He shot 4 of 10.
Holiday with 9 points, 3 boards, 10 assists, 5 steals, and a block. He shot 3 of 11.
Brand with 4 points and 4 boards. Redd with 2 points. He shot 1 of 7 in 10 minutes.
Williams with 2 points. He shot 1 of 6.
We were outrebounded 52-42 which was the most telling stat. Also, they shot 50% from the arc while we shot 23%