That was the biggest issue on the two-game road trip to Boston and Philadelphia – lack of defensive energy in the first half that led to huge deficits to try and scale out of.
When we work together defensively, we’ve shown it throughout the games when we’ve needed it the most.
His reason for why it wasn’t there in the first half of both road games was just as simple.
Pretty sure we’re going to go back and look at this game, understand the mistakes, where we made the mistakes, the play-calls we’re making at times, things we’re doing on both ends that we can be better at.
Rebounding: The Bulls sit 21st in rebound differential at -2.6 rebounds per game.
Zach LaVine’s thumb: The ligaments in LaVine’s left thumb are slowly healing, but are also costing the All-Star the ability to attack and finish with his left hand.