The time of regrets in Toronto can now apply to Chicago. The way too. Both teams displayed their season’s strengths and weaknesses in the most important game of the year. And it is the seconds that “won”.
The Bulls spent the regular season on alternating current, between good sequences, even excellent, and bad, very bad even. It was the same in this meeting in Miami. For 45 minutes, everything was fine. Then the light went out in the final three.
Billy Donovan’s troops were three points ahead with 3 minutes and 46 seconds remaining. The following ? A small point scored and 0/7 on the shot despite attempts by Zach LaVine, Coby White, DeMar DeRozan and Alex Caruso…
“I’m not going to lie: it hurts, it sucks. It wasn’t supposed to end like this. We gave ourselves a chance to win this match, we were in front. We can’t make those mistakes.” says DeMar DeRozan at NBC Sports. “It sucks. I didn’t shoot well.” adds Zach LaVine, 6/21 shooting. “We were so close. If I score a few baskets, it can change things. It hurts so much. »
Was the Bulls’ margin of error too thin to pull off the feat twice in a row?
“We really tried to squeeze in after a season where we didn’t play up to our potential”recognizes Zach LaVine lucidly. “We have too much talent for that,” regrets DeMar DeRozan facing an elimination before the playoffs for this team. “We have to look in the mirror. Talent is not enough. It is also about the intelligence of the game. We have shown it, at times. But good teams have that mental focus every day, even bad ones. We did the roller coaster. »
Basically, this team can only blame itself. Last season, injuries had not spared this formation and could serve as an excuse. This year it was the group that failed to move in the right direction, constantly stepping back after every step forward.
” It’s disappointing “, concludes Zach LaVine. “We have high-level players, but we have to keep the machine running. We let too much go by at the start of the season and we had to pull ourselves together in the second half, being desperate. If we play like that all the time, the season is not the same. We must not put ourselves in a position where we have to win two matches in a row, because anything can happen. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Zach Lavine | 77 | 36.0 | 48.5 | 37.5 | 84.8 | 0.5 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 24.8 |
| Demar Derozan | 74 | 36.2 | 50.4 | 32.4 | 87.2 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 24.5 |
| Nikola Vucevic | 82 | 33.5 | 52.0 | 34.9 | 83.5 | 1.9 | 9.1 | 11.0 | 3.2 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 17.6 |
| patrick williams | 82 | 28.3 | 46.4 | 41.5 | 85.7 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 10.2 |
| Coby White | 74 | 23.4 | 44.3 | 37.2 | 87.1 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 9.7 |
| Ayo Dosunmu | 80 | 26.2 | 49.3 | 31.2 | 80.5 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 8.6 |
| Goran Dragic | 51 | 15.4 | 42.5 | 35.2 | 65.9 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 6.4 |
| Andre Drummond | 67 | 12.7 | 60.6 | 0.0 | 53.6 | 2.1 | 4.6 | 6.6 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 6.0 |
| Patrick Beverly | 22 | 27.5 | 39.5 | 30.9 | 53.3 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 5.8 |
| Alex Caruso | 67 | 23.5 | 45.5 | 36.4 | 80.8 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 5.6 |
| Javonte Green | 32 | 15.0 | 56.5 | 37.1 | 66.7 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 5.2 |
| Derrick Jones | 64 | 14.0 | 50.0 | 33.8 | 73.8 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 5.0 |
| Terry Taylor | 5 | 7.1 | 90.0 | 100.0 | 25.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 4.0 |
| carlik jones | 7 | 8.0 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 62.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.9 |
| Dalen Terry | 38 | 5.6 | 44.4 | 25.9 | 66.7 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 2.2 |
| Tony Bradley | 12 | 2.8 | 50.0 | 60.0 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.6 |
| Malcolm Hill | 5 | 1.8 | 50.0 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
| Marko Simonovic | 7 | 2.8 | 28.6 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
