Boston- It is no surprise that Chicago Bulls on Wednesday recalled Zach Lavine to Boston Celtics at a loss of 122-100.
The game marked the first of the absence of an expected three-game for Lavin, not with the team before the birth of his third child with his wife, Hunter. But even with a lot of head-ups, the bulls could not plan to fully plan for a difficult journey without their stars.
It was not just his scoring – although the bulls could certainly use a 24 -digit season average. Bulls could not get themselves out of aggressive stagnation without Lavin, barely reaching triple points as Crystaps Porzingis (34 points) and Jayalan Brown (28 points) recently with aggressive attempts with bouncing aggressive attempts The recovered champion.
Bulls focused on playing their youngest winds through the second half, with the guard Josh Giddi and the center Nikola Veeivik sat out of the fourth quarter.
Here are five takeaets from losses – Bulls eighth in 10 games.
1. Celtics ruthlessly converted the mistakes.
Bulls did not turn the ball into an arrogant zodiac – eight times in the first half, 14 total. But Celtics finished the turnover at an aggressive rate to achieve an important lead, at every mistake.
Celtics scored 27 points from 14 turnover, after every mistake, 3-pointers were fed with their ability to replace them, pushing up the crime to pursue a high speed.
“Especially against the champs that ruled, you can’t just give them an opportunity,” said guard Kobi White. “Against such good teams, you had to control what you can control.”
2. Kobi returned from a white injury.
After the disappearance of four games with a bone injury in his left ankle, White jumped back to the right to the right. The absence of White did not last long – 10 days – but it took a moment to clean the war. The guard said that he took at least one rotation to get his air back, and he missed his first four shots before the 3-pointer drowned in the third quarter.
However, White should have played under a little minute restriction between 25 and 28 minutes, according to coach Billy Donovan – he eventually logged in the loss in 30 minutes, 35 seconds. He ended with 16 points-for the high level of the team-and went from the 3-point range to 2-for-7.
3. Patrick Williams were again out of the bench.
Bulls finally left Williams to start on Danver Nugets for the beginning of Monday’s victory, a decision that immediately paid in one of the most decisive performances from all seasons. Williams contribute to upset – 11 points, eight rebounds and three assistance in 28:35 – were enough to believe in the entire locker room.
“Everyone in this league recalls your last game,” White said before Wednesday’s game. “So everyone should remember that he got the game.”
Donovan placed Williams in a secondary rotation against Celtics despite Lavin’s absence, a sign that it could be a long -term plan regardless of the matchup or the availability of the team partner. Williams responded with another strong effort, a total of 16 points, seven rebounds and four assistance.
4. Matas Buzelis remained the sixth man.
No one was well played well on Bulls Jersey on Wednesday. But Buzelis continued to show improvement at both ends of the court after being a player before the bench for the second consecutive game, a small silver lining in another loss.
Buzelis dried a pair of 3-pointers in the first half. He glowed on the rim at a back door for a simple flush sting in the third quarter and blown Porgisis to take a foul in the fourth. After the call, he smiled chirping with the former all-star.
But the most important improvement was at the defensive end, where Donovan felt that the miscreant showed a better ability to read the screen and stay close to his rival’s hip. At the first meeting of the teams, Buzelis discontinued his defensive assignment, which found a lot of space for players such as Jelane Brown. On Wednesday, each switch with buzelis materiality, closing the space using its length to make life hard on Celtics stars.
Buzelis finished with 12 points on 2-for-4 shooting from the 3-point range and added four rebounds and a block. And the crook is embracing the difficulty that comes with a long time against the top ranked opponents.
“If I am not playing against the best, how am I going to be better?” Buzelis said.
5. The shooting of Nikola Wuviaq continued.
At the beginning of the season, it seemed that the center could not remember. But even at a point between the hottest stripes of the season, it was difficult for a shooting center of 47.3% at 3-pointers at a point in November that he was waiting to leave the other shoes.
The sneaker dropped hardwood this month. Vučević is shooting only 27.3% from the 3-point range in January. The trend continued in Boston, where he missed all three of his efforts on the way for six-bindu night.
Bulls struggled as a collective from the back of the arc, finishing 15 -for -49 (30.6%).