The Bulls guard wasn’t alone, either. Or at least he felt like he shouldn’t be.
Holding the defending NBA Champions to just 93 points in the Game 1 loss less than 24 hours earlier came with a cost. A certain level of physicality that had to be dealt out after weeks of the Bulls looking like they were incapable of playing to that level of intensity.
And as coach Billy Donovan explained, that was just “the price of admission’’ to playoff basketball.
“You don’t do that, you’ve got no chance,’’ Donovan said. “So we’ve got to build off of that, but we’ve also got to clean up the mistakes that we made.