Bulls handled, sparks boos in United Center

Before Bulls’ Games Tuesday against the stamps, some coach Billy Donovan asked for a simple question.

Donovan was asked what he would see from his team in what is left of the regular season.

The response was thought and something proper, but nowhere in it was ” go ahead and play soft, embarrassing basketball. ” ”

No, the players came with one on their own.

In the first of back-to-back matches against pistons in the United Center, Bulls Rock Bottom hit in a 132-92 blowout loss.

” I don’t want to sit up here and apologize, ‘It was a game of 82,’ or ‘It was one of those nights.’ No, ” Donovan said. ” We have to own it all the way through. Even, the players, the coaches, all together. We are all in it. We all put ourselves in this situation and do you know what? The only ones that get us out of it are us. We sit down in the situation we need to withdraw from it. ” ”

Hopefully with less booing from the home crowd. The players were very aware that the fans let them know how bad their performance was.

” You heard, we heard, everyone heard it, ” Guard Josh Gidde said. ” Obviously, we hate it. Every time we get out on this floor, these fans appear, show and we need to be better. It’s ours
Responsibility as players to give them something to cheer for. (Tuesday) we probably deserved (boos). We didn’t give them anything to cheer for. ” ”

It was clearly very early.

It wasn’t just a slow start for bulls in the first half; It was a disaster. And every possession seemed to get worse.

It got so bad in the second quarter that there was a possession in which Center Nikola VUUCEVIC finally stopped the bleeding with a rpm hook and ran up the field with his arms up in the party, mocked himself and how bad he and his teammates played.

The numbers were even worse than what happened on the field.

Bulls pulled 71-29 on their way into the dressing room and set a season low for points in the first half. The 42-point deficit tied the franchise post for the biggest at the break, which went back to a loss to Warriors in 2018.

Bulls completed the first half shoots 12-for-52 (23%) from the field and an inevitable 1-for-23 (4.3%) from three-point range.

Ayo Dosunmu led them to score by eight points in half.

Bulls finished the game 10-for-47 (21.3%) from three, but most of it came in waste time with the game long decided.

As ugly as things have been recently, Bulls (22-32) still have the final play-in place at the eastern conference. Donovan hoped that there would be some kind of pride in it, knowing that there were still meaningful games left on the schedule.

” You look at the younger guys, it would be their growth and development in terms of not only receiving minutes but being responsible in their minutes in which they develop a mentality of things that they have to do to affect winning, ‘”said Donovan.

” At this point we are still in a play-in situation, right? So you want games that are meaningful. Because I think if there is no meaningfulness in the games, it’s like ‘Hi, no matter what.’ The urgent part is so important. ” ”

Tuesday was definitely not. Not even close.