Lonzo Ball and Zach LaVine both hit in the knee, Billy Donovan turned to a never-before-seen major five to face Boston last night. If DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vucevic were there in between, the other three positions were occupied by young “newbies”: Alfonzo McKinnie was on position 4 replacing Derrick Jones Jr, also injured, while the two usual substitute point guards, Coby White and Ayo Dosunmu, started on positions 1 and 2.
Despite the narrow defeat of his team, the native of the “Windy City” shone, compiling his first career double-double (21 points at 9/10 on shots and 10 assists) for his third tenure only. He has become along the way the first rookie in NBA history to achieve a match with 20 points and 10 assists at 90% success.
Accelerated learning, according to absences
After the match, the rookie appreciated the confidence granted by his coach, who left him on the pitch for almost 39 minutes, mainly to face Jayson Tatum.
” You gotta grow fast in this league” noted Ayo Dosunmu. ” From the start of the season, we lost guys, because of injuries or the Covid. So I had to be present. And the fact that the coach asks me to defend their best player is a compliment. I try to fight, to play as I know how.“
” It’s a league of opportunities and there are so many games that it’s impossible to let your emotions get the better of you. he continued. ” Friday night I had a bad night (0 point to 0/5 in 30 minutes), I had not played at my usual level. But I knew I had a chance to make it up today.“
Best Bulls player during the game (27 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists), Nikola Vucevic did not fail to shower his young teammate with compliments.
” He played well. For a young guy like him to play with so much control, without rushing his decisions, it’s impressive “appreciated” Vooch “. ” Especially since this is only his third tenure. He has played well on both sides of the pitch, and has done so since the start of the year. This is a big addition for us.“
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Demar Derozan | 37 | 34.6 | 49.2 | 35.2 | 85.2 | 0.8 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 25.7 |
| Zach Lavine | 38 | 34.0 | 49.1 | 41.2 | 87.2 | 0.3 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 24.9 |
| Nikola Vucevic | 33 | 33.0 | 43.6 | 33.3 | 69.6 | 2.0 | 9.3 | 11.3 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 16.0 |
| Lonzo-Ball | 35 | 34.6 | 42.3 | 42.3 | 75.0 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 13.0 |
| Coby White | 22 | 25.0 | 46.6 | 37.5 | 78.9 | 0.1 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 12.1 |
| Alex Caruso | 26 | 28.0 | 44.8 | 36.4 | 83.0 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 8.4 |
| patrick williams | 5 | 24.9 | 56.5 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 6.6 |
| Derrick Jones | 31 | 17.2 | 58.2 | 40.5 | 84.8 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 6.3 |
| Ayo Dosunmu | 36 | 19.8 | 51.7 | 41.7 | 57.9 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 6.3 |
| Javonte Green | 29 | 22.2 | 49.6 | 36.4 | 80.0 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 5.8 |
| Alfonzo McKinnie | 9 | 15.3 | 42.2 | 39.1 | 25.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 5.3 |
| Tyler Cook | 9 | 10.4 | 65.0 | 0.0 | 87.5 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 4.4 |
| Troy Brown, Jr. | 29 | 15.1 | 42.0 | 32.7 | 75.0 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 4.2 |
| Tony Bradley | 28 | 12.6 | 55.4 | 0.0 | 80.0 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 3.7 |
| Matt Thomas | 17 | 10.0 | 36.2 | 36.8 | 70.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 3.7 |
| Devon Dotson | 11 | 7.7 | 47.8 | 22.2 | 55.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.6 |
| Marko Simonovic | 8 | 4.0 | 28.6 | 20.0 | 72.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 2.1 |
| Mac McClung | 1 | 2.5 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Alize Johnson | 16 | 7.5 | 52.2 | 0.0 | 57.1 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 1.8 |
| Jordan Bell | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
