Bulls come out flat, fall in Miami 112-99

Chicago only shot 24% from beyond the arc (7-for-29) and dropped to two games behind the No. 1 seed Heat in the East with the loss.

Bulls coach Billy Donovan Monday was sounding philosophical in the wake of the Bulls' mammoth 112-99 loss to the Miami Heat that even Donovan conceded wasn't really that close.

And we thought when he talked about Nietzsche he meant the not so philosophical Green Bay Packers' linebacker instead of the German philosopher who believed living is about suffering and surviving is finding the meaning of it. "That which does not kill us," Nietzsche famously said, "makes us stronger."

Of course, Nietzsche spent his time in frigid Germany while the Bulls melted from the…