The NBA regular season continues, with the East ushering in a strong dialogue, with the Bucks sitting at home to meet the Bulls.
As the defending champion, the Bucks have gone low and high this season, both in terms of record and overall performance as the regular season progressed, and had improved their record to 44 wins and 27 losses before the start of the game, tied for third place in the East with the 76ers.
On the other hand, the Bulls, as the largest dark horse team this season, the Bulls' record trend is exactly the opposite of the Bucks, the team is high and low, not only plagued by injuries, the team's performance in the face of strong teams, but also led to the team's record continues to decline, before the game has fallen to the fifth place in the East.
As soon as the game began, the Bulls were the main guest, relying on Vucevic's hot outside feel, quickly establishing a lead.
Fortunately, the Bucks are also in good shape, the inside and outside blossoms and the Bulls tangled, the point difference has been very tight, until the end of the section bulls dudded, the Bucks played a wave of flow offense, directly established a double-digit lead.
In the second quarter, the Bulls still did not solve the problem of the dumb fire, the Bucks remained energetic, pulling the point difference to 26 points in one breath, fortunately, when the situation was about to collapse, LaVine stood up, with personal ability, played a 10-0 attack wave in one go, narrowing the point difference to within 20 points, but at the end of the half, the Bulls were still 16 points behind.
The Bulls continued their form in the second half of the second quarter, chasing the point difference, once chasing the difference to only 10 points, after which the Bucks regained control and played a wave of counterattacks.
Facing the Blooming Bucks inside and outside, the Bulls obviously couldn't withstand the pressure, and the point difference was pulled back to 20 points, and the Three Quarters ended, and the Bucks held a huge lead of 22 points.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, the Bucks, who held a huge lead of 22 points, played steadily and steadily, and never gave the Bulls a chance, who saw no hope of turning the tables, decisively chose to give up, and finally the Bucks, who played at home, defeated the Bulls 126-98 and won a big victory of 28 points.
Throughout the game, the Bucks blossomed at multiple points, showing the strong strength of the defending champion, with as many as 7 members of the team scoring in double figures.
Among them, Holliday 27 points and 7 assists, Da luo 10 points, 6 boards, 2 assists and 2 caps, Aaron 10 points, 2 boards and 2 assists, Matthews 11 points, 2 boards and 2 assists, Connaughton 14 points, 5 boards and 3 assists, Ibaka 11 points, 4 boards and 2 assists.
Alphabet Brother played 30 minutes, shooting 9 of 12, and efficiently bombed down two doubles of 25 points, 17 boards, 5 assists and 3 caps.
On the other hand, the Bulls, as the largest dark horse team in the East, did not pose any real threat to the Bucks throughout the game.
Only three players in the team scored in double figures, namely DeRozan 21 points, 4 boards and 2 assists, LaVine 21 points, 3 boards and 7 assists, and Vucevic 22 points, 7 boards and 2 assists.
And the three players who scored in double figures also failed to show the aggressiveness they deserved, deRozan did not have a single free throw in the whole game, which was the first time he had a full-time free throw this season, and so far this season, he has been able to get 7.8 free throws per game.
The performance of this game is also a microcosm of the overall performance of the Bulls as a big dark horse team this season.
The Bulls did have a good record, but they only achieved the "weak are strong, strong are weak" point, won the game that should be won, and the game against the strong team is not won.
Since the start of the tournament, facing the top three teams in the East and West, the Bulls have only achieved an embarrassing record of 0 wins and 16 losses.
It is worth mentioning that due to the rapid collapse of the Bulls in this game, it also allowed James to reap the benefits of the fisherman.
It is not difficult to see from the first three quarters that the alphabet brother obviously retracted his strength, only 12 shots, and when he wanted to fight back in the fourth quarter, the alphabet brother went to end the game, and the bulls directly surrendered their guns, resulting in the alphabet brother only shooting 12 times and getting 25 points.
This makes James more likely to get the scoring king honor, at present, James ranks first in the scoring list with an average of 30 points per game, and the alphabet brother ranks third with 29.7 points, but in terms of average playing time per game, the alphabet brother is almost 4 minutes less than James, and the number of shots is 3.2 times less, which means that if the alphabet brother has a hard time in the back, it is not difficult for James to get the scoring king.