Bulls vs Bucks

It's fair to say the Bulls shock the basketball world, though not themselves, on Wednesday night when they took down the reigning NBA champion Milwaukee ...

After this, the camera captured images of a dejected Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan, and Nikola Vucevic sitting together on the bench as the Bulls fielded a squad ...

The Bulls never made a substantive run and frankly this game was hard to get through as a fan. The Bulls offense was broken throughout the game. The Bulls only took one free throw up to the 3:52 mark in the third quarter which suggests a lack of aggressiveness throughout the game. The most interesting part of the game at this point was seeing if the Bulls fans were booing their own players louder than Grayson Allen. There were several cutaways to absolutely stunned, devastated Bulls fans. Another sign of this is DeMar DeRozan taking just nine shots one game after his Herculean 41-point performance in Game 2. The Bulls found themselves getting dunked on by an Antetokounmpo, but not Giannis:

The Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks are facing off at the United Center for Game 3 of their first-round playoff series on Friday.

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The Milwaukee Bucks will meet the Chicago Bulls in Game 3 of the NBA Playoffs on Friday night from the United Center.

Meanwhile, the Bulls will be ready to go and have all the momentum after they evened up the series in Milwaukee on Wednesday. Newsrooms are independent of this relationship and there is no influence on news coverage. The Bucks will look to rebound after falling to the Bulls in Game 2 114-110 as they look to take a 2-1 series lead on the road.

Giannis Antetokounmpo added 18 points. Bobby Portis started with Middleton out and finished with 18 points and 16 rebounds despite pain in his right eye from a ...

... Assistant coaches Chris Fleming and Damian Cotter were back with the team after missing the first two games because of COVID-19. Assistant Maurice Cheeks, however, was out because of a non-COVID illness, coach Billy Donovan said. ... The Bulls have not won a home playoff game since beating Cleveland in Game 3 of the 2015 Eastern Conference semifinals. And Allen finished it with a driving layup that bumped the lead to 46-22. And the Bucks' widest margin on the road was by 36 at Philadelphia in 1970. Coming off two shaky performances in Milwaukee, the Bucks quieted a raucous crowd watching Chicago's first playoff game at the United Center in five years. Allen helped squash the ''Let's go Bulls!'' chants, nailing four 3s and scoring 14 in the half. And the Bucks made it look easy, handing the Bulls the most lopsided home playoff loss in franchise history. Bulls: Chicago's most lopsided playoff loss was 115-78 at Miami in Game 2 of the 2013 conference semis. ''We took a punch the first game. ''We didn't have that same competitiveness that we had the first two games we had in Milwaukee,'' LaVine said. Game 4 is Sunday in Chicago. Without him, Allen said his own mindset didn't necessarily change, though the rhythm was different. I was able to take advantage of that.''

A loss would have placed the Bulls in a 2-0 hole, which historically spells doom. Of 435 NBA playoff series that at one point stood 2-0 (entering the 2022 ...

"I don't think there's anything that these guys haven't seen," Donovan said of the Bucks. "They've been down in playoff series, they've been tied in playoff series, they've been up in playoff series. The bottom line is the Bulls have to play every game with the urgency they did Game 2. It certainly was in the regular season, when the team finished 27-14 in games played at the United Center. "I feel like this is one of the most important games of the series," Zach LaVine said after the team's morning shootaround ahead of Game 3. The Bucks lost All-Star forward Khris Middleton for the remainder of the series to an MCL sprain. Instead, the Bulls won in convincing fashion.

Credit should go to the Milwaukee defense, as they had a clear gameplan for both DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine. Jrue Holiday and Wes Matthews got into their air ...

This game was a clear indication of what adjustments the Bucks made in order to slow down the Bulls offense. Portis made an instant impact by scoring 8 points in the first quarter and where he especially hurt Chicago was from deep. While the box score indicates they scored 26, 21 of those points came in the fourth quarter with the game already decided. It’s evident that the knee still seems to be bothering him and it’s affecting his play in this series. The Bucks packed the paint so they can easily help out in the mid-range so neither of Chicago’s two best players could get a clean shot off from that range. In the end, it was a 30 point drubbing as the series heads to Game Four on Sunday.