![]() LaVine countered with 36, shooting 11-18. Lillard scored 40 on 12-21 shooting in the loss. Fast play, interior scoring, and plenty of foul shots propelled the Bulls to a hard-fought, but seemingly-inevitable, 129-121 victory. But the fourth quarter belonged to Chicago. Portland was able to keep even for three quarters, both generating and suffering from huge runs. Both he and his team suffered from fatigue, playing on the second night of a road back-to-back. Lillard’s ability to generate infinite points countered the mismatch as long as the tap was on, but he couldn’t play all 48 minutes. Portland countered Chicago’s size advantage with quickness darting down the lane and shooting prowess.īut the Blazers faced a constant problem, unable to deal with Chicago’s interior scoring. ![]() Damian Lillard and Zach LaVine showed why they’re two of the best scorers in the entire NBA. We get the stops and then we get out and run.”Įlsewhere, Kristaps Porzingis scored a season-high 32 points and Luka Doncic added a triple-double as the Dallas Mavericks cruised to a 123-109 win over the San Antonio Spurs.The Portland Trail Blazers and Chicago Bulls played a feisty game on Saturday night, throwing haymakers at each other like heavyweight brawlers in a sweltering gym. “We got guys playing defense first and that has to be our mentality. “We kept our composure and kept battling on defense to get stops,” Schroder said. They avenged that earlier loss to the Raptors with a 104-88 home victory on Wednesday. The club’s fortunes at home began to change after Marcus Smart called out the team’s stars for a lack of passing following a 128-114 loss to Chicago on November 1. This was just the Celtics’ second win at home this season after they were clobbered by Toronto in a 32-point blowout in their home opener on October 22. ![]() The Bucks had six scorers in double digits, including Bobby Portis, who had 22 points. They were already without Khris Middleton, who missed his seventh straight game after testing positive for Covid-19. Milwaukee was missing all-star Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was ruled out just prior to tipoff with a right ankle sprain. The Celtics won despite being without Jaylen Brown for the third consecutive contest with a hamstring injury. Marcus Smart added 19 points and Robert Williams had 12 points and 10 rebounds for Boston. “I wanted to be aggressive, get into the paint and look for my teammates.” “I tried to attack and get some early buckets,” said Schroder. He also finished with eight rebounds to help the Celtics win for the fourth time in five games after a dismal 2-5 start to the season. The Celtics raised their level of play in the extra session, outscoring the NBA champion Bucks 14-5 as Schroder led the assault. In Boston, Dennis Schroder scored eight of his season-high 38 points in overtime and Jayson Tatum tallied 27 points and 11 rebounds as the Boston Celtics beat the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks 122-113. Golden State held the Bulls’ offense to just 33 points in the second and third quarters and waltzed to victory from there. But they would score just five points in the remaining three minutes of the first as the Warriors defense got untracked. Chicago made just eight threes overall.Ĭhicago got off to a solid start to lead 24-14 in the first quarter. Golden State shot 15-for-46 from three-point range, outscoring the Bulls 45-24 from beyond the arc. Zach LaVine had 23 points and DeMar DeRozan 18 for the Bulls, who began a five-game trip without Nikola Vucevic who tested positive for the coronavirus earlier in the week. The Western Conference-leading Warriors improved to an NBA-best 11-1 on the season as Friday’s win capped an eight-game, 16-day homestand.Īndrew Wiggins had 15 points, Kevon Looney grabbed 10 rebounds and Draymond Green tallied nine points, nine rebounds and seven assists for the Warriors, who opened their lengthy homestand with a loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, before racking up seven consecutive wins. This was also the 52nd time he has scored 40 or more points in a game. ![]() He has now made nine or more threes a league record 36 times.
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