#Cleveland Cavaliers at Chicago Bulls
United Center- Chicago, IL
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401585024)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/chicagobulls/comments/18pikr1/game_thread_cleveland_cavaliers_1613_at_chicago/keodpmx/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|CLE |32|25|25|27|109|
|CHI |30|26|16|23|95|
###Player Stats
**Cleveland Cavaliers**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|I. Okoro|34:30|12|3-9|0-5|6-7|0|3|3|3|0|0|1|2|6
|D. Wade|36:20|11|4-12|3-10|0-0|1|6|7|1|2|0|1|1|12
|J. Allen|34:57|19|6-9|0-1|7-10|8|9|17|7|1|1|0|0|6
|M. Strus|40:32|26|9-22|5-17|3-3|0|1|1|7|2|1|3|2|15
|C. Porter Jr.|39:23|19|8-14|1-3|2-5|1|6|7|8|1|1|3|1|14
|G. Niang|20:55|7|3-12|1-5|0-0|1|4|5|0|0|0|2|4|-4
|E. Bates|8:46|3|1-2|1-2|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|-3
|T. Thompson|13:03|6|3-4|0-0|0-0|4|2|6|1|0|0|1|1|8
|D. Jones|11:34|6|2-4|1-2|1-1|0|2|2|1|1|0|1|5|16
**Chicago Bulls**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|D. DeRozan|40:08|21|6-14|1-3|8-9|0|5|5|8|3|0|2|4|-8
|P. Williams|35:10|13|5-11|2-5|1-1|0|2|2|2|0|1|2|3|0
|N. Vucevic|33:32|20|7-11|2-5|4-4|1|11|12|4|1|1|1|1|-12
|A. Caruso|32:09|10|4-9|2-5|0-0|1|3|4|1|0|1|0|3|-10
|C. White|39:38|17|8-19|0-8|1-1|0|4|4|7|0|1|4|2|-5
|A. Dosunmu|19:35|4|2-6|0-3|0-0|1|2|3|1|0|0|1|3|-8
|J. Carter|9:21|3|1-7|1-5|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|1|1|1|-5
|D. Terry|17:03|6|2-3|0-1|2-2|0|1|1|0|1|0|0|1|-12
|A. Drummond|13:24|1|0-0|0-0|1-2|2|4|6|0|1|0|1|4|-10
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|CLE|39-88|12-45|19-26|28|16|7|12|4|15|33|61|
|CHI|35-80|8-35|17-19|23|22|6|12|5|5|32|42|
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Second chance points determined this game. Can’t wait to get that 40 mil of cap space in reinforcements soon, trade zach and bring in the cavalry
Embarrassing to lose to that squad.
We got destroyed by a team with Max Strus as their first option
Oof
First
Basically down to Coby’s 3s not falling. It happens. On to the next one.
Third game in four nights and it shows. Some player’s efforts were worse than others but everyone was collectively not up to their usual standards.
Also damn that was a tough 4th to watch.
Take a couple days off, Bullies. Enjoy Christmas and come back fresh. Hell of a December.
Rebounding Rebounding Rebounding. Fuck.
Any team with Vuc and DeMar as two of their top players will struggle against teams that play with energy and physicality. Their effort levels are always pathetic unless it’s offense. It’s a big reason as to why we’ve played down to the competition last two years.
Well that sucked! Hopefully the team gets the much needed rest. Good week regardless! Merry Christmas y’all!
We need Lavines scoring. Just not in the hero ball way. If he can adapt himself to Billy’s system then the Bulls can be real good. Slim chances tho.
I feel like Max Strus has something on the Bulls.
Very disappointing game.
Giving up those OREBs was unacceptable. Just didn’t have the energy and offense didn’t look nearly as good as it has and didn’t seem to be just cuz we were missing shots either.
Hopefully this is the exception and not the beginning of reverting back to who we were
Definitely looked like a team playing their 3rd game in four nights
Low effort and energy tonight.
Hope they can come back after 2 days with more energy again. 8-4 in the last 12 is pretty good tho since a lot of us thought we’d only win 2 😂
Happy holidays everyone!
4 games in 6 days and everyone just looked gassed.
Didn’t execute particularly bad on defense or offense and no one was particularly bad even (Carter was making some super questionable plays that being said). Just shot bad numbers (but on par with Cleveland) and had a really poor defensive rebounding game…second chance points were absolutely the difference.
Just trade demar so everyone can see how lottery this team would be without him. I’m tired of seeing everyone turn on him
If Coby hit a third of his 3s we would’ve won. These things just happen sometimes.
Rough game lets just hope they bounce back next game happy holidays to you guys
When your shots aren’t falling + lackluster effort on defense = watch this game
How the whole team watches the opposing ball-handler and forgets to defend
3 games in 4 nights is nothing but an excuse. No reason to lose to this shorthanded Cavs squad.
Couldn’t buy a rebound. We move on.
Leaving guys open, not going for rebounds, losing to a team missing FOUR STARTERS. This is their fault and they oughta be ashamed.
Ugly game, but 3 games in four nights definitely will lead to games like this. Onto the next one
4th game in 6 days sure but this is still embarrassing to lose to a team down so many pieces. Missing that many shots and giving up that many 2nd chance points seems like fatigue. First game like this in the past 12 so I’ll move onto the next one. Ultimately tho good teams find ways to win these kind of games.
Pat with a +/- of 0 in a 14 point loss? This is starting to become less and less of a coincidence. He moves the ball so well, and tonight that was the issue; no movement.
Bad games happen. The effort needs to be there next game, though
H8M is coming back. We’re making the playoffs.
I’m scared because Coby has been over performing. We are a team. Down now 7 games from .500
Bulls are still a short team and struggle to get to the rim. If the shots aren’t falling, it’s really hard to win. Energy / effort / lineups don’t really matter much here. If the players brick every shot and can’t get easy layups they will lose.
But honestly losing isn’t even a loss, either the Bulls are entertaining or the Bulls are forced into a rebuild. I figure both are fine outcomes for the fanbase?
way more threes taken than the Bulls, on a 26% clip, without mobley, mitchell and garland and they still shot more free throws.
makes sense.
or not.
anyways.
Don’t all jump off the bandwagon after one poor performance. Our shots weren’t falling and we let too many second chance points through, definitely areas to improve on but we’ve had some great wins in this stretch. People too fickle.
Just clear that the team was worn down. Yeah it sucks to lose to the bench squad, but it’s not like this was the Detroit or something. The team was clearly exhausted and had historically bad shooting for them. I’d expect Tuesday to be a better game.
C to me is the problem. Bad rebounding, bad rim protection.
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I’m not going to read too much into this loss. That said, I need way less Dalen Terry on my screen.
Why is strus always amazing against us
A reminder to everyone saying that the team was worn down or claiming some other rationale:
They lost to a team who was without FOUR STARTERS!!!!!!!!!
Why so many Zach haters? Like people support Justin Fields. Mitch Turbisky. Patrick Williams! But Zach is nonsensical hate. People blaming him for PW and Coby playing bad. H8M is on the way back.
The Cavs just grabbed another offensive rebound as I typed this.
Some people here seem pretty lax about this loss. I mean I get it. We played 3 games in 4 days. I just wish you could teach effort. I don’t like the 3 games in 4 days excuse. That would work for me if we played a top level elite team tonight, but we didn’t. They were badly injured. No excuses at all for that ugly ass game.