The Bulls used 100 possessions Saturday night against the Detroit Pistons. Only one mattered.
As good as Zach LaVine’s game-tying three-pointer was, the outcome of the next possession ultimately determined the game.
We knew the defense would be bad. It was always going to cost the Bulls games. That proved true in a 118-116 loss to the Pistons.
The Final Possession
Isolating a single possession and using it as the sole reason a game was lost can be misleading. But in this instance, in the dying moments of a tied game with shot and game clocks virtually aligned, I don’t understand the rationale behind leaving two of your worst frontcourt defenders on the floor.