On April 20, Beijing time, the Bulls lost to the Heat 91-112 away and missed the playoffs, and the Heat locked up the eighth place in the East. The Bulls trailed by 17 points at the beginning of the game, and DeRozan's 12-point explosion in a single quarter in the second quarter narrowed to 10 points, but Drummond's undercover in the third quarter caused the Bulls to collapse, and the final quarter entered garbage time early, and DeRozan was very helpless off the court.
DeRozan didn't play well in the first quarter, and some Bulls fans blasted DeRozan: either the pass was too late, or he missed the pass, or he passed to the wrong person, he is not a regular winner, and I will always remember that.
But at the beginning of the second quarter, DeRozan led the team to play a wave of 9-0 climax, directly narrowing the gap of 17 points to 8 points, this quarter DeRozan was 4 of 6, 1 of 3 three-pointers, 3 of 4 free throws, scored 12 points and 1 block, DeRozan played very hard in this quarter.
Some American media complained about DeRozan, only DeRozan alone in the team had a shooting rate of more than 50%, Dosunmu was 1 of 7, Caruso was 1 of 6, White was 2 of 10, and only DeRozan was online after the halftime of the Bulls.
In the third quarter, DeRozan played 10 minutes and only made 2 shots, scored 2 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist, and in the last 2 minutes and 13 seconds, he watched Drummond's low-level mistakes and White's low-level mistakes send a 0-12 climax, and DeRozan's efforts were in vain.
DeRozan played 41 minutes in the game, 8-of-16, 3-of-6 three-pointers, 3-of-4 free throws, and scored 22 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, 1 steal and 1 block, shooting 50% from the field and 50% from three-point range.
In the last game against the Hawks, he scored 22 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds on 10-of-19 shooting and 1-of-2 three-pointers, shooting 52.6% from the field and 50% from three-point range, averaging 22 points, 6.5 assists and 4.75 rebounds in both games, shooting 51.4% from the field and 50% from three-point range.
The 34-year-old DeRozan averaged 37.8 minutes per game in the regular season, scoring 24 points, 4.3 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.6 blocks, shooting 48% from the field and 33.3% from three-point range.
The Bulls have six contracts expiring this offseason: DeRozan, Drummond, Javonte Green, Pawe, Ball, Craig.
The Bulls media believes that if the Bulls want to renew DeRozan, he should get a four-year, 135 million contract, but it is difficult to see that the Bulls are willing to pay luxury taxes for LaVine and DeRozan, let alone renew Pawe's contract. (Trading LaVine to keep DeRozan may be possible)
Text/Yan Xiaobai's basketball dream