Another game against the Milwaukee Bucks, another loss for the Chicago Bulls, who rarely get a win against their division rival.
Now on the edge of elimination in Round 1 after dropping Game 4 by a score of 119-95, the Bulls have one last shot to show some fight before going home much earlier than they would have anticipated a couple months ago.
When the Bulls began to slide in February, the team got into the same bad habits that have revealed themselves so far during this series.
Quite frankly, no one should be surprised by Sunday’s performance if they have watched this Bulls team over the past eight weeks.
The Chicago Bulls proved exactly who they really are in their Game 4 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.
For eight weeks now, the Bulls have been a team that has lacked a vocal leader, first and foremost. Many of us thought the Bulls had found one in Game 2 when Alex Caruso stepped up in the biggest way possible. Yet, here we are two games later looking at the Bulls down 3-1 and heading back to Milwaukee.
Sunday afternoon, the Bulls found themselves down by 15 at halftime, which felt like more of the norm. The third quarter saw the Bulls cut it to eight, only to see the Bucks storm back ahead well into a double-digit lead.
There were spurts where it appeared as though Zach LaVine and DeMar DeRozan were going to start getting aggressive, but for most of the game, it was the exact same strategy by Billy Donovan and the Bulls.
Pass, pass, pass, pass — and then, maybe someone takes the shot.
Or, LaVine or DeRozan would take two steps towards the lane before kicking it back out and refusing to finish.
Those were the offensive strategies deployed by the Bulls — again, not a surprise and nothing different than what we’ve seen lately.
