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4/3/2023 - BlogABull is now on Substack
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Bulls vs. Lakers game preview and thread: revenge or repeat?
3/29/2023 - Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports
Lakers head to Chicago Bad night for the play-in Expand
3/29/2023 - Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports
Lakers head to Chicago Bad night for the play-in standings for your Chicago Bulls, as they didn’t play but all the teams around them won. The Bulls are still comfortably going to make the play-in tournament, but it would be a lot better to be in 8th versus 10th. They’re currently 1.5 games behind that mark against the tied Hawks and Raptors.
Both of those teams are off, but the Bulls play tonight, returning from their 3-game west coast road trip to face the Lakers. The Lakers last played on Sunday when they lost to the Bulls at home in spite of LeBron James’s return.
The Bulls played quite well in that one, and even had some fun at LeBron’s expense by the hands of Patrick Beverley being Patrick Beverley.
Will that fuel the Lakers or whatever? They have their own play-in lives to contend for, they don’t need anything extra.
Injury Report:
LeBron is listed as questionable but you’d think given the time off he will play again. Anthony Davis Collapse
Bulls vs. Lakers final score: Zach LaVine leads Chicago to 118-108 win
3/27/2023 - Photo by Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty Images
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3/27/2023 - Photo by Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty Images
LeBron’s surprise return not enough for Lakers After their win at Portland Friday, the Chicago Bulls continued their mini West Coast road trip with a 118-108 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
Despite a noon local time tip, the Bulls were the ones who raced out to an early lead, going up by as much as 20 points in the first quarter. The Lakers rallied back and made it an eight point game at halftime with all of the momentum. Nikola Vucevic played just 15 minutes as he was ejected during the second quarter. He initially got T’d up for arguing about a foul call then was subsequently called for his second technical just seconds after as he was walking away from the referees. It was a tough blow for Chicago as this was during the stretch in the first half where LA was fighting their way back into it.
Nikola Vucevic received back-to-back technical fouls and was ejected from the game. pic.twitter.com/N5zGAZ0s6i— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) Collapse
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Cash Considerations Podcast: Bulls too small vs. Lakers
3/30/2023 - not pretty Jason and Ricky took to Spotify Live after the Bulls’ 121-110 loss to the Lakers, Expand
3/30/2023 - not pretty Jason and Ricky took to Spotify Live after the Bulls’ 121-110 loss to the Lakers, making it two straight ugly defeats after the big win over the Lakers in Los Angeles. While Chicago has played better with Patrick Beverley since the All-Star break, it’s still looking like the No. 10 seed will be the outcome.
Cash Considerations: A Chicago Bulls Podcast is part of the Blue Wire Podcast Network.The pod can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts. Collapse
Bulls vs. Clippers final score: a 3-point barrage sinks Bulls defense in second half
3/28/2023 - Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports
the Nic Batum game The Bulls held serve with the Los Expand
3/28/2023 - Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports
the Nic Batum game The Bulls held serve with the Los Angeles Clippers for about a quarter, but after that found themselves at the wrong end of way too many transition opportunities and wide open three pointers. The Clippers surged ahead over 20 points in the second half to eventually beat the Bulls by a 124-112 final score as the Bulls split their L.A. series.
The Bulls had many things going against their surprisingly-stout defense in this one. It was the second night of a back-to-back, and they were without Javonte Green and Alex Caruso.
The Clippers also simply made a ton of shots.
Bulls 112, Clippers 124Defensive rotations have been the Bulls calling card all year. Clippers totally demoralized them with 20 made threes, tied for 3rd most the Bulls have allowed all year pic.twitter.com/UJKjzsWEhC— Will Gottlieb (@Will_Gottlieb) March 28, 2023
Thought-to-be-washed Nic Batum went 8-10 from three.
The Bulls, as a team, went 9-23. Collapse
Bulls vs. Lakers game preview and thread: play-in East meets play-in West
3/26/2023 - Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images
Pat Bev Revenge Game incoming? This afternoon at Expand
3/26/2023 - Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images
Pat Bev Revenge Game incoming? This afternoon at Crypto.com Arena, our Chicago Bulls will face off against Patrick Beverley’s last team, the ascendant Los Angeles Lakers.
LA is currently in the midst of a three-game win streak, and looks like a wholly different team since president Rob Pelinka offloaded $65.4 million’s worth overpaid of veteran point guards in trades to add players around stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis who actually made sense. Yes, that salary sum includes our guy Pat Bev, who has been an absolute steal off the buyout market in starting for his hometown team, but was overpriced and out-of-position as LA’s $13 million starting shooting guard. All 6’1” of him.
In the weeks since the February 9th trade deadline, Los Angeles has gone 12-6 with its new-look lineup, featuring fresh additions D’Angelo Russell, Jarred Vanderbilt, Malik Beasley, Rui Hachimura and Mo Bamba. Bamba could be done for the season with a high left Collapse
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Bulls vs. Lakers final score: Anthony Davis comes home and brutalizes Bulls
3/30/2023 - Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports
Anthony Davis had himself a night Well that was a Expand
3/30/2023 - Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports
Anthony Davis had himself a night Well that was a bummer.
Tonight against the visiting Los Angeles Lakers, our Chicago Bulls looked absolutely outmatched from the jump. With D’Angelo Russell back following a two-game absence and LeBron James wisely moved back into the starting lineup (albeit on a minutes restriction), Los Angeles had a much more well-rounded two-way night than they did in the two teams’ prior encounter Sunday, a 118-108 Bulls victory.
A key strategic shift was Lakers head coach Darvin Ham’s decision to double-team Chicago’s best scorers, wings DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine, especially off pick-and-roll actions. As a result, the Bulls were forced to take a bunch of jumpers, to middling results. Chicago did launch significantly more triples (33) than Los Angeles (20), although thanks in part to a poor long-range shooting night from Zach and Patrick Williams (a combined 0-for-7), the Bulls only made two more than LA did Collapse
Bulls vs. Clippers game preview and thread: the L.A. back-to-back conclusion
3/27/2023 - Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images
Can Da Bulls beat a more talented LA team a second Expand
3/27/2023 - Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images
Can Da Bulls beat a more talented LA team a second night in a row? After a surprisingly good 118-108 win (coughed-up leads aside) against a solid and fairly whole Los Angeles Lakers club yesterday, our Chicago Bulls are hoping that lightning can strike two days in a row at Crypto.com Arena, where they will try their darnedest to fend off Kawhi Leonard’s Los Angeles Clippers.
Yesterday against the Lakers, the Bulls’ perimeter defense — led by the Patricks and Alex Caruso — effectively stuck with Los Angeles players on pick-and-roll actions, which limited a lot of the Lakers’ offensive attack.
On offense yesterday, Chicago performed surprisingly well, even without Nikola Vucevic for all of the second half, following a pretty flimsy ejection (Andre Drummond and Derrick Jones Jr. stepped up in his absence). As a team, Chicago connected on 54% of its field goals (including 45% of its triples), and dished out for 32 dimes (against just nine Collapse
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