Beijing time on March 10, the Bulls beat the Pistons 114-108 to end a five-game losing streak, the pistons began the attack is very fierce, leading by 3 points at halftime, the third quarter once opened to a 7-point advantage, it is not expected that the bulls in the last quarter of the bulls improved the defensive intensity to play a 19-10 small climax to overtake the score, and finally the Bulls won the victory in the case of the outbreak of the deRozan last quarter.
The Bulls have previously lost consecutive games with the Grizzlies, Bucks, Philadelphia, Heat, Eagles, criticized as a "pseudo-strong team", and they have only 2 wins and 14 losses against teams with a winning percentage of more than 60% in the league, and the Bulls, a team in the upper half of the East, have been questioned a lot, if this game faces the Eastern Vice President Pistons and loses, then they will have no place to stand up, and in this cold moment, DeRozan will inevitably come forward.
During the five-game losing streak, DeRozan questioned 1 game 30+, including one game that did not play 20+, this first half against the Pistons he actually did not feel good, the first quarter 6 + 3 three-point 1 of 0, the second quarter of 3 1, half of 9 only 8 points, 2 assists, 1 rebound and 1 steal. He began to explode in the third quarter, and in the third quarter DeRozan scored 12 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist on 8-of-7 shooting and 8-of-8 free throws.
DeRozan's all-time total also rose to 19,464+ surpassing Kaminsky to 55th, and this game was also a milestone night for DeRozan, the Bulls were still behind in the last quarter, DeRozan stormed away, one person took 13 points in a row to help the Bulls stretch the gap to 8 points, when Azan's mid-range was unsolvable.
1:03 before the final, DeRozan hit a goal and then the point difference widened to 7 points, Bagley hit a three-point difference of 4 points in the first 19 seconds of the final game, Vucevic lost suspense in the game after the Bulls timedout, DeRozan in the last 10 minutes, 9 of 6, 5 of 4 free throws, 16 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal, he finally won for the team.
In the whole game, Azan, 41 minutes, 12 of 25, 12 of 13 from the free throw line, had 36 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals.
After this game, the Bulls are 40-26 and 1 win difference from the third-place Bucks in the East, although Green Kai also won, but because the Bulls won, the Bulls still led the fifth-place Green Kai by 0.5 wins.
Text/Yan Xiaobai