ESPN reacts to Chicago Bulls beat Sacramento Kings 113-109; Coby White new career-high: 37 PTS

ESPN reacts to Chicago Bulls beat Sacramento Kings 113-109; Coby White new career-high: 37 PTS

We are back here live in our downtown Chicago Studios by the way happy 187th birthday to the city of Chicago all right today’s the city’s birthday happy birthday sh happy birthday to the greatest city in the world before it hits midnight and the birthday will be

Over I am Jason G is K G what did you get the city for as for a present uh me every day same thing I get everybody all day long he’s G to his left his will do welcome on in this is Toyota Bulls post game live before we break it down fellas

Let’s go back out to Sacramento Casey Johnson is standing by with the bulls young backc court that combined for 57 points tonight 37 of which scored by Kobe Kobe white and I dumu Kobe I we’re doing this together you guys you guys are down 22 points in that third quarter what was

What were you guys talking about in the Huddle had to keep fighting I was told team keep fighting keep going um we can score we have a lot of offensive Talent it’s all about getting stops and when we started to get stops um everything else start Tak care itself Kobe you didn’t uh

Take a shot in the first quarter you finished with a career high 37 points what changed for you I was just trying to let it come to me um didn’t want to force it just try to let it come to me uh I had it going big time in the first

Half so uh let him do his thing and and just playing off him when my opportunity came I just Tred to take advantage of it demard Rosen scored 19 points in the fourth quarter you’ve seen that movie before right yeah yeah that’s he a killer he a killer I told him to stay

Together stay with it stay with it just keep going just keep coming and uh we did that and we we gave ourselves a chance to win down the stretch you were guarding to Aaron Fox throughout a lot of that game and you got off to that strong start offensively how difficult

Is that to handle that two-way assignment I mean it’s fun I love competing it’s the you get lost in the competition you know Fox is one of the better leag my youngest know what I’m saying my youngest it’s fun going out there competing and then offensively it’s going out having fun trusting our

Work um I love seeing our guys eat I it’s it’s fun I’m excited Kobe this is a big four game trip how how important is it to start off on this note uh it’s very important this four games is big for our season we play a lot of good

Teams it’s good to start off you know with a in this build in this atmosphere against a really really good team in in the NBA um so you know for us it’s important uh you know we wi it out and and we finish strong so thanks for your time [Applause]

Guys great Stu by the young fellas great stuff by KC all right Kobe white is our player of the game brought to you by great cliffs kg a career high 37 points from the GetGo he played with a different pace and a different Force tonight he sure did and a handful of

Highlights I mean highlights that I’m making the NBA Instagram page we’ve already checked but doing everything I mean look at this oh that’s the play right there yeah you nor like you were saying you normally don’t crawl somebody over then D and DK on some but Kobe

White showing us his whole his whole repertoire knocking down outside shots taking the ball to the basket and you know he he’s fast approaching being one of the top drivers the league yeah you know getting to the basket yes cuz he can get there with his new found hand

Well not his new H his new F handles I mean he’s had him for what two or three years now but now he’s starting to be an elite ball handler as well seven assists playmaking as well Kobe white well I mean this you know he had a little bit

Of a loss you know for about a good four or five games where the shot wasn’t falling next thing you know bounces back against the Bucks gets 37 night against the Sacramento Kings so the interesting thing is when you listen to that postgame interview he talked about

Waiting for the game to come to him you a lot of players say that but they don’t really know what that means but during that time frame he was still being impactful as far as how he was running the team and then once he finally started to knock down a couple shots

Then Kendall you know this as a score then his confidence just started to grow and all of a sudden there was no hesitation and then we’re like this is the Kobe of old zero points at the end of the first quarter 30 finishes with 37 I mean it’s it’s impressive how this guy

Has been able to withh hand with handle and he even addressed about the biggest thing that he thought was affecting his game was his inability to work out in between games his inability to get back into the gym because he thought he had to focus so much on you know taking care

Of his body because again tonight 44 minutes he’s not used to playing this night after night after night and he’s had to adjust everything accordingly but yet he still maintained the confidence in himself and kept shooting the ball and this is the result of it right now speaking of confidence in yourself and

Continuing to shoot the basketball this um this I guess remix of IO dmu’s game that we’ve seen over the last month and a half two months or so 20 points tonight five assists no turnovers zero turnovers and you talked about those six turnovers to start the first quarter if

It weren’t for Io dumu that that that deficit would have been a lot larger like he came out with a different kind of energy and was taking it to dearon Fox and the Sacramento Kings guard crew no he really was and look confidence is a beautiful thing okay firstly his jump

Shot okay gives him confidence because he’s not just relegated to driving the ball to the basket which is his signature move this going going right and getting the ball up on the glass now he has a second weapon he can knock down that jump shot and you put that with his

Driving ability will it makes him twice as hard to stop yeah but I think for him the biggest thing to me is how him and Kobe now have started to feed off each other the confidence they get from one another but also the support that they give each other you know whether

They’re playing good whether they’re playing bad I mean you’re looking at a situation where I understand people were going to say well you’re going small but because of what IO has been able to do with his three-point shot and the consistency we’ve now seen I mean you talk about tonight two of

Five you start to wonder about you know regardless of the situation I’m not saying hey we found a replacement but you’re talking about if the Bulls still look to trade Zack LaVine in the off season I I mean I would love to see this dumo Kobe white

Lineup over in 82 games to see exactly what they can do yeah because Kobe somewhat has taken over the scoring deficit that Zach left okay now you add that with iio and if you give him the minutes I I told you I love them Tom tho minutes baby you know why because you

Get numbers you see what you see what Tom did the other night when Jaylen Brunson got hurt early in the game he put McBride in and he subed him in the first rotation McBride never left the cour he 47 straight minutes the other I would love to play for him man what 47

Straight yeah absolutely man look because you look at I’s minutes 39 minutes tonight yeah okay you look at his numbers nine of 15 15 shots up 15 shots up he got five assists and I’m telling you as as a player and and will can attest to this too when you get

Consistent Minister you know you’re going to be on the floor oh man that does wonders for your confidence cuz you don’t have to look over your shoulder whether you have to press for a shot or anything like that you can just play and that’s what we’re seeing iio do we’re

Seeing him just play his natural game but I think also the biggest thing for Io is you talked about just play now IO feels like if when he makes a mistake he can play through that mistake as you as you talked about if he makes a mistake

He’s not peering over his shoulder to see if somebody’s coming in he’s like listen I know I made a mistake we know about his basketball life like you and then he’s stepping up and he goes I I’ll make up for that somewhere within this game whether it be on the offense or

Defensive end of the floor that’s one of my favorite moments during watching in basketball games is when guys know they coming out and they can look over at that sideline they putting it up got to get a shot move got to get a shot up before flip saers made rest in

Peace told me that Terry Porter was the master at getting that last shot up when he saw somebody come up yeah no doubt shout out to Terry Porter Wisconsin Stevens Point all the Bulls have proven themselves to be a fourth quarter team specifically in the last two minutes

Check out this tweet courtesy of at shy Sports Ross on X there it is ladies and gentlemen H they don’t they don’t start until last two minutes of the fourth quarter you know you can stop this anytime now bll you you get a lead in the third and just

Hold on to it but this is what this is what this team uh this the DNA of this team right now it is I mean but you heard Casey saying the pregame show this team just doesn’t give up they don’t quit and that’s what you saw tonight

Went down 22 in the third quarter they could have packed it in on the west coast not supposed to win this game but they came back and did a great job you know and I love the way that Kobe white continues to attack no matter what

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ESPN reacts to Chicago Bulls beat Sacramento Kings 113-109; Coby White new career-high: 37 PTS