In a battle of bad teams, this time the Bulls came up short. The Dallas Mavericks had a 2nd quarter surge that put them up double-digits, and from then the game would see runs back and forth where the Bulls would get very close but never back on top. The 4th quarter saw mostly Zach LaVine hero-ball that this time came up short.
LaVine was the story in this one for the Bulls because he used up a ton of possessions over the course of his 41 minutes. He finished with 26 points but shot 8-23 from the field, 0-6 from distance ,and had 7 turnovers.