On April 7, Beijing time, the NBA's new season regular season showdown continued. With a record of 49 wins and 30 losses, the Boston Celtics, who are second in the East, have also ushered in a new game again, away to the Chicago Bulls. As a team that has maintained a steady state in the East this season, the Greenshirts are not favored by the majority of fans. But such a team with a double probe flower showed surprising competitiveness at a critical moment when the regular season entered the end.
The Bulls were in good shape at the start of the season, but after accepting the All-Star Weekend schedule, they lost their original color and were hit back by the rest of the league. However, at the critical stage of the final stage of the regular season, DeRozan still played a historic performance, leading the team back to the right track. However, this time, in the face of the green shirts sitting on the double probe flowers, they once again showed their stuffing. At the beginning of the game, the Bulls encountered the Celtics' domination.
In the first quarter, although Tatum's offensive efficiency was not good, he could still get 6 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists with excellent foul ability, while Brown also had 8 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist and 2 steals, which helped the team play a 32-19 score and get a 13-point lead. Lavin's comeback didn't work, DeRozan failed to continue to send explosive stats, and the Bulls were at a disadvantage. Entering the second quarter of the showdown, although DeRozan returned to form, shooting 4 of 6 in the second quarter, sending 11 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist and 1 steal, but he also failed to help the team take the lead.
Playing the green shirts that bloomed everywhere, they gave a 35-32 score in the second quarter to take a three-point lead. By the end of the first half, the Celtics had scored 67-51 ahead of the Bulls by a crucial 16 points. The point difference between the two teams was widened one after another, and the Bulls were beaten to no avail. In fact, after the yibian re-battle, the green shirts that took the lead in the score were able to lock in the victory in advance. In the third quarter of the competition, Jaylen Brown delivered 10 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist, while the Bulls side fell into a scoring drought, at one point 16-24, continued to give the opponent an eight-point lead.
By the time it got to the crucial final-quarter showdown, the point difference between the two sides had widened to 24 points, and there was no much suspense in this game. Although DeRozan was reluctant to give up easily, the other starters on the Bulls side chose to concede defeat in advance and clocked in three quarters. In the end, the fourth quarter was over regular time, and the Greenshirts completed a 23-point victory with a score of 117-94. The duo performed well, with Tatum sending a comprehensive stat of 16+10+8, and Brown even delivered a game-high score of 25 points, as well as 7 rebounds and 4 assists.
However, in contrast to the starting core of the Bulls side, DeRozan refused to clock out in the third quarter, and did not change the situation of the loss. He scored 15 points in the first half, but only 1 point in the second half, how can the performance of the tiger lead the team to reverse? And LaVine, who played with an injury in this game, did not continue to play his normal level, only 7 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, and did not alleviate the overall scoring pressure of the team at the scoring end. Summarizing the key factors in the Bulls' loss, they still suffered a big loss in the output of the outside three-pointer: 7 of 23 three-pointers, compared to the Celtics' three-point shooting of 37, it is simply not too chicken.