Chicago Bulls Non Competitive In Loss To 76ers

Chicago Bulls Non Competitive In Loss To 76ers

Yourself on another episode of lock on bulls on today’s episode we’re going to talk about the Chicago Bulls getting absolutely destroyed by the Philadelphia 76 is given up over 40 points in a single quarter uh we’re also going to talk about Kobe and P will leaving the

Game with injury and Zack LaVine could return as early as Friday me and Pat gonna break it all down today on locked on bulls you are locked on bulls your daily podcast on the Chicago Bulls part of the locked on podcast Network your team every Day thank you for tuning in to locked on bulls member of the locked on podcast Network where it’s your team every single day that’s Pat the designer host and creator of the windy city Breeze and host of the Chicago Chicago Bears podcast over at ESPN 1000 I’m Hayes host

Creator of Chicago Bulls and Chicago Bears Central Podcast and YouTube Pages Pat man um we both fairly excited about this game man and uh the Philadelphia 76ers said yeah we’re gonna go ahead we we only want to work a half day uh putting up 73 points in the first half

Of this game the the matter of fact the Philadelphia 76ers scored 43 points in the just the first quarter the Chicago Bulls scored 42 points in the first half the game that’s how you knew this game was about to be ugly yeah bro I I’m not

Going to lie to you it was like I finished up The Daily Show literally turned on the the the Bulls game bro and I believe at that point it was 28 to7 I just like oh oh this is gonna be bad and listen it was exactly what I talked

About yesterday on yesterday’s episode you know coming into this game what were we worried about how they were going to be able to handle the how you a going to be able to handle Joel embiid in the post you got to watch how you say that that was about to be

Crazy but I just thought that uh um you know they had no answer for Joel embiid the entire night I thought that defensively we kind of knew drum wasn’t going to be able to to handle in be and and there there’s nobody else left that

Is uh of any size to throw at him I think at one point right they had Terry Taylor on him and I was just like that just looks bad like that’s just a bad like put a dama out there and regular he did get out there but put him out there

In regular time just for the size to look a little bit better but um you know to me I thought that this was really a a tough game for the Bulls uh as a whole and defensively they didn’t have a lot of answers they this was one of the few

Games where you know I thought it was a very interesting stat when the Bulls give up 30 plus in one quarter they usually can fight their way back into the game when they’ve given it up in two quarters or more and they gave up 43 in that first quarter um they they have

Lost pretty much all of those games so it it really was just the Bulls offense could not get going once you started seeing Pie fall in that second half you knew that it was pretty much over and then uh defensively they just they didn’t have answers Tyrese Maxi

Absolutely cooking all night long well the time that he was out there the 29 minutes that he played and it was uh it was not a fun watch I’ll tell you that much these are those nights where you’re just like oh well we uh we got to cover the team so I gotta

Finish this game yeah hey this was real real talk like I I love watching Bulls basketball I watched the whole game of course but like it was literally the end of the first half I was like yeah this is over with like this L like it like

And don’t get me wrong they showed a little bit of fight towards the end of that second quarter but then the Philadelphia 76ers basically came marching right back and it just this never felt like a game where the Chicago Bulls were going to have enough um to

Come back in this game and that ended up holding true man it’s just at some point injuries do catch up with you and then at some point as well on top of that with like the shorten rotation stuff like that it’s just this team came out

And it really seemed like it felt like this was the second of a back toback hopefully that means they’re going to have energy tomorrow night against the Knicks which you play on ABC tomorrow but um it just it never the Bulls never led a single second in this game not a

Single second did the Bulls hold the lead in this game and so it just it I’ve never seen or let me not say never it’s been a while since I really felt like a game was truly truly over that early in what this game was it was like six

Minutes still left in the second quarter despite the run I yeah this game’s over it’s not going it’s not happening the magic ain’t happening either yeah and when you saw them come out in the first quarter knock down seven of 11 from the three-point line the Bulls went 0 for 10

It was just like okay well there’s no there there’s this is a very large mountain to climb when you get into the second quarter and that just that kind of shot production just continues there’s not much you can do sometimes right the team gets hot and I think that

That was this was that night right Philly was like we’re not losing a backtack to the Chicago Bulls that’s not how this is going to go down for us and they came out and they showed out kudos to them I think that this is uh unfortunately just one of those 82 where

Every now and then you’re going to be on the losing end now you can’t turn this into a consistent thing though you have to go in and out his game in New York where you’re on short rest you’re on the second of a back toback and you have to

Find a way to dig deep and win this game this is a game where you’re still going to be short-handed you’re I don’t believe we’ll talk about Zack LaVine possibly when he could return but it’s not tomorrow it’s probably going to be Friday um and realistically speaking those points would help especially with

Uh Kobe white going down today Patrick Williams going down today couple of guys that maybe they can go maybe because it’s a second of a back toback they won’t go they’ll rest them there’s there’s a lot of scenarios where you are still trying to climb that mountain and

You’re very very much behind the eightball on this one heading into New York versus the Knicks so we’ll see see what it ends up being the one thing that has been good about the Bulls is they hav really lost two in a row they they

Didn’t lose two in a row at all in the month of December uh let’s hope that continues in January I mean hey uh this has been a team that that has been resilient and you know hopefully that that does continue um we did lose two in a row in December

As well did we I don’t think Milwaukee Milwaukee Denver on the 11th and 12 Milwaukee and Denver okay yeah but that’s it that’s the only that’s the only time that happened one time again yeah let’s not do that again uh but yeah it’s just when it comes down to it like

You’re not going to have it every day now you’re not always going to give up 43 points in a quarter like that’s that’s crazy that’s wild yeah you got cooked and and I I think there’s you know even with that a lot of open shots a lot of open Corner threes defensive

Rotations didn’t look good in this game need to do more need to clean that up um and and that that’s one of the biggest issues that we saw creep up with the bulls in last season’s uh uh um defense the entire season pretty much that

Corner three felt open it got to a point where I felt like I was doing the Family Guy thing right the entire night just Corner Three Corner three uh that’s what we’re gonna be doing tomorrow left yeah left left to the left well it’s less left though because RJ Barrett’s not

There and uh Emanuel quickley can go right yeah he he could go right but but RJ Barrett’s not there Quickly’s gone no I said I said there’s Les there’s less left going into tomorrow so they both out now we did we did get to see Adama sonogo and Julian Phillips in this game

Both played well in garbage time do you think this could be something that with with the shorten rotation which we be talking about here in a second do you think we could see more of them uh listen you know how I feel about

Ad d i I think that this guy has uh a really good talent six boards eight rebounds again that’s without Joel embiid out there but if you could bring him off the bench I think that he could be a really key contributor he just knows his game he knows he’s not going

To force anything I thought it was really I think he was out there it might have been against Paul Reed or or maybe somebody else but he he pumped fak like three times Demar D roing them old boy jumped up in the air he waited till he

Jumped he went up for the shot got fouled got to the free throw line like that’s what you want to see this guy is this is what happens when you get guys to stay in college a lot longer he’s NBA ready I’ve said this multiple times I

Would love to see him be able to get some backup center minutes does it hurt you a little bit in the long run because you know he’s not a a guy that is overly athletic or overly going to um be able to just switch on to anybody on the

Defensive end sure he’s he’s a legitimate big man uh in a 69ine body but I do think that you can go out there and you can get some really good backup center minutes you’ve got the size from them going up against New York they basically are all centers and forwards

And then Jaylen Brunson um well I guess they got some guards now with OG in there and stuff like that but I just I I I think that that’s an opportunity for you to utilize a guy that to me came in and the moment wasn’t too big for him I

Get it it’s against backups it’s a very different situation you’re not going out there versus the best of the best right it’s not him going up against uh uhh Joel embiid by any stretch of the imagination but I thought he gave you some really good minutes in his limited

Time and you you utilize Terry Taylor in those similar minutes right and I think you we saw more production from Adama than we did from Terry Taylor now take that for what you will game is completely gone but I I would like to see ad dama get out there yeah I think

At this point like yeah and we’ll talk a little bit about that more here in the second half because we could have uh a player out that’s going to be missing some time we’ll see what that ends up meaning with Kobe and P will leaving this game but before we get into talking

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In the game uh he did not he played 29 minutes so maybe there’s not as much question on if Kobe’s going to be available against the New York Knicks but there seems like there is some doubt about Patrick Williams availability possibly for tomorrow now considering we’ve already been a team that’s been

Lacking size in that rotation um that could mean that if Patrick Williams does sit out that it’s not just a if we’re gonna see Julian Phillips or Damas soogo we may have to see those guys but uh what what do you what do you think in

Regards to Kobe and P going down and then what that could mean for the rotation as we go to New York I think it sucks because right I’m not going to there’s a lot of people I’m seeing that are trying to fault Billy Donovan for keeping him out there

As long as he didn’t it’s like listen they’re a young team you’re not going to take them out of the game and not let them play right like I I don’t think that Billy Donovan was um that he left them out there too long that it wasn’t a

Good thing for them to be out there you got yourself in it just blowout see if you can get yourself out of it I I like the fact that the players were left out there I do think it’s going to be tough uh not having them moving forward now

Kobe white could play but I think blls probably play this one safe in my opinion um where they’re just like second of a back toback you hurt yourself uh Kobe did say I don’t know if you like you said kind of like he could have gone back out there if it wasn’t a

Blow up I mean like so maybe that bodess well for him playing tomorrow but it’s like I wouldn’t force it if you don’t need to I guess I would say right I feel like that was Kobe white saying like hey I can go out there I can do whatever you

Need me to do and boys’s like all right take it easy with down 60 right now you sit down for a second um I do think that this is going to mean something for the young guys tomorrow I think that listen at a certain point you got to have

Bodies and and right like it whether you want playing time or not it’s just the law of how many bodies are you g to be able to have available for the game I think there’s a good chance that Dam Sago and Pete and uh uh uh Julian

Phillips do get some tick tomorrow and uh hopefully they’re able to make the most of it especially on the defensive end yeah I mean I think uh when you look at look at how they have both performed at times right especially in the g-league like it seems like they’re both

Ready to contribute that doesn’t mean they’re ready to perform in the way that they did in the G League nobody’s expecting that but if you do need them to step up I do feel like it’s going to be rough right I’m not saying it’s going to be perfect or seamless or anything

Like that but I do think both these guys are ready to give you something minutes wise now it’s up to Billy Donovan and manage that and to and to mitigate any type of you know struggles they may have out there if he notices that they’re happenening in her in the team but at

The end of the day like and this this goes to show like why it’s important to when you can play rookies some spot minutes where they be six to eight minutes and he was doing that with Julian Phillips up until Tory Craig went down and then we stopped doing it all of

A sudden but you want those guys to be ready if you need to rely on them to where they’re not caught like deers in the headlights so you know uh you know Julian Phillips has played way more than Adam sonogo but I definitely can see especially against the New York Knicks

That we may have to rely on them especially if P Wills down and I would not be surprised like you said second of a back toback um that that we may have to go they they may have to sit them and and see because then I think after

Friday we don’t play again till I’m sorry after tomorrow we don’t play again till Friday so you can get them a couple of extra days off then you could have Vu and Zach returning at that point and then then you’re back to your full rotation and I think this is a game that

That works a little bit better for you doing that right like you you’re playing against Julius Randle and Isaiah hartenstein down low um your wing guys OJ an anobi coming in right he’s trying to work himself in over there Dante D venzo Josh Hart these are guys that both

Of them can stay with right if you get them matched up in the right scenario so for me I I look at this as this is a really good time for you to get some really good experience here and go out there and try and get a win you like it

Doesn’t mean just because guys are hurt just because guys are out doesn’t mean that the other team’s not going to give you their best hopefully Kobe White’s able to go he’s been banged up this entire time the biggest question for me is going to be if Kobe white is able to

Go which Kobe white are we going to get because he’s because of the wrist injury right and I it it’s a legit wrist he’s literally got it taped on the floor the shots gone the shots just it he doesn’t have the touch right now so uh getting

Downhill being able to get to the basket that’s going to be very important and if you got Kobe out there we know that he’s a guy that can get everybody else involved can you find Julian Phillips can you find Adam Sago I think that even with looking at kind of the the skill

Set that they have the one thing that I noticed even in garbage time they never stop moving and they’re all always making the right basketball move it was one where Adama setting an off ball screen down low pops out to the right side comes back up sets a screen up top

I’m like he’s just moving he’s just like running whatever the rotation is supposed to be he knows he’s not getting the ball for no reason and then he got it down low and made delay like so those are the things that I really like to see I’ve talked about Julian Phillips doing

That for a while as well these guys just they they’re they’re basketball players and I and I love the fact that they just are like I’m just going to be active in some way in this game and and you know what one thing as well that I did like

In this game is that Julian Phillips when he was out there with I’m sorry not Julian Dal Terry when he was out there with Julian Phillips and adogo you saw him start being more seven assists and eight rebounds from D Terry today yeah and so you can tell there’s a chemistry

Yeah there’s a chemistry there there’s a familiarity there and that’s why you want to get these guys minutes and so like like dalen has that Swiss army knife potential and I think that you know you in times like this you see it and again we’re going with this youth

Movement play those young guys a little bit more especially while we got players out there with injury hey and I ain’t gon to lie to you though Dal passes be looking stiff in a mug but they be getting through bro he be his passes be looking like

Uh but they be getting through bro like it literally looks like how you would technically teach somebody to throw a full court bounds pass you want to get your body behind it you want to make sure your back is straight up and down you want to

Put all right uh we going to keep this thing moving along man I uh appreciate you guys for tuning in show love let me ask you this hey as we uh talk about this Nicks game uh when you see that the defense that this team played

In this game where do you think that that’s going to most where do you think they need to improve the most heading into this n game because I think this is some of the worst defense we’ve seen the Bulls play and I’m talking about the meaningful minutes not in the second

Half some of the worst defense we’ve seen the Bulls play probably in a month like legitimately a month yeah I mean I think when it comes down to it as well like Jaylen Brunson Dante Devan chenzo Josh Hart the way that they those guys play again if the Bulls are going to

Close out on three-point shots Shooters like they did today it’s about to be a long game it’s about to be long here hey bro I yeah yeah chzo get hot it’s gonna be a long day especially Bron bro but yeah it’s defensively I think that you just got to improve those rotations like

It it felt today felt like the day that the injuries got to him and I will say this right for everybody was Trey V move on from V with done with v get rid of V where V at hey bring V back hey bro bring Vu back because the rotations just

Aren’t the same and I Know It defensively right I and pick and roll I don’t want to see it but when I’m talk drums pick and roll defense is starting to fall off too bro oh yeah listen they’re both bad neither of them are good at it right like both of them are

Like and manto man I can live with it pick and roll Jesus uh but at the end of the day I I want to see kind of how the offense like you see the offense taking a real dip in production without Nicola vich out there yes you get the one game

Where uh or the two games I should say where you get 20 and and 20 pretty much from uh um Andre Drummond but we’ve now had two games at the same time which why I said he can’t be a starter right now where he’s in foul trouble in the

Beginning of the game Joel andb was like I’m F to foul you out well Jo embid got in foul trouble himself too so hey embid be falling over his own feet and be getting foul call of him bro he be pissing me off that’s the refs bro he on his big LeBron

Gang sick of it man I’m sick up hey man let’s keep this thing moving along appreciate you guys for tuning in showing love hit that like button subscribe to the page if you haven’t subscribed I think like half of y’all not subscribed y’all be hating on us bro

I don’t I don’t understand what the hate is me and Hayes are like the greatest people on Earth uh that might have been a little presumptuous no no I think that that’s very accurate oh is that is that accurate we good on that if anybody got

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Could be returning as early as Friday he has not ruled it out what first of all hold on as the drip connoisseur you have on a bear’s hat and a bull’s hoodie yeah I was tired oh okay that’s fair that’s faira turn to Friday the Hat was there I

Put had the hoodie on already I just I was tired I I didn’t get to get the cut today because uh that’s a whole that man you you on your Big C stuff today bro oh my God at least the merch is legit no no

The merch is legit this is that’s why I said the merch is legit no okay all right now come on now don’t do me like that I make fresh for you I make fresh okay and there it is it’s been a good run appreciate you guys Kev definitely got on gas station

Gear bro bro bro ke Kev got on stuff that was never made at all Kev got that Chicago Bulls hat that’s like blue and green and you be like what color way is that bro like what there’s not even a team that wears that like where did you

Find that and the bull is missing one eye and has a nose ring going on bro like oh why we just fry ke like like that he makes it easy bro he Mak it easy no man I listen any irony in the fact that he can return verse Charlotte which

Apparently is the game that uh started the rift with Billy Donovan in the first place that is that is actually pretty funny I don’t know man like Zack LaVine coming back I guess we’re at a point right now where we’ve lost a couple of games so maybe you feel a little bit

More um excited to see Zack LaVine I still have the same concerns that I had in the first place I think now coming back with guys Bang up are we going to be able to see a difference in how uh they rotate Zack LaVine how they how

They utilize Zack LaVine um is when V is seven to 10 days so he should be right around that same timeline as well we haven’t heard an extension on that so we could be getting Zach back could be getting Vu back uh and Kobe white like they said doesn’t seem serious so I

Think that could be a game where uh and and a perfect game for it right like Charlotte is like a game where you go into it and just like we’re gonna win now you don’t want to like play like that but you just kind of know you just

Go into it like that’s all right we’re going to win I mean I guess I definitely see where you’re coming from and it matter of fact isn’t it a yeah it’s a home at home against Charlotte at that so we got a game at home against Charlotte then we

Go out the road against Charlotte so that could be a nice tuneup for Zack LaVine and vot to get get back cooking so yeah see if they see if they can get back in a rhythm pretty quickly and I think uh you know just start just start

To work that back in with Kobe white and at the end of the day you’re you’re trying to raise draft stock here boys like I I don’t think that I’m still on the side of the fence where Zack LaVine is probably not a Chicago Bull after the trade deadline

But you’re you’re you have to put him back out there because the narrative on him is completely gone off a cliff yeah like this stuff that people are saying about Zack Lavina is just like well that’s not true like y’all are just trying to make stuff up people are just going like he’s

Been a good teammate he’s been professional through all of this and now he’s got to go back out there and he’s got to show that he can win with the team in the way that they’ve recently started winning some games so uh we’ll see what the uh what the month of

January is g to be I will say this we did not start off with a win we did not we did not that question and uh it started off as bad as it could yeah that’s that is indeed what happened is we did not start off with the win and

Um yeah yeah I mean uh the listen let’s hope the Bulls can get back on track and you know exactly n vich comes back and incorporate uh Zack because we know the V has been playing with this team um you know let’s hope it’s all the things that we talked

About before sacrifice all that things have have to happen and at the end of the day regardless of what you want to see if you want to see Zach stay on this team or you want to see Zack LaVine traded the best outcome for both those

Things is that come back and play the best that he can yeah that’s it we’ll see what it ends up being man appreciate you guys for tuning in and showing love as always hit that like button subscribe to the page we’re here through the good times we’re here through through the bad

Times we’re here through the blowouts we’re here through the uh we don’t really blow people out so I mean we we’re here through the fun wins I guess I can say we don’t really blow people out have we had a blowout this year I don’t know that’s

A I don’t think so I don’t remember us beating a team by 20 like a blowout for me is like 20 plus like I don’t think so I know we beaten some teams by 15 but I don’t think we beaten a team by 20 plus

So uh 20 plus no I don’t think so oh hey man well be here eventually when they do have one man yeah we yeah we did yeah we did this we beat them by almost 30 oh yeah yeah we did do that yeah we here through the blowout wins too uh follow

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