The Bulls held a 19-point lead at their highest point, and led by 13 heading into the 4th quarter only to blow the game against the Lakers on Tuesday. This wasn’t a collapse where the lead slowly was chipped away by the stars of Los Angeles and they were barely overtaken: the Lakers turned it around without either LeBron James or Anthony Davis on the floor, building a double-digit lead themselves with under 3 minutes to go before some garbage-time buckets made the final score look better.
The critical stretch occurred in a nearly 7-minute segment spanning the 3rd and 4th quarters, where the Bulls deployed an all-bench lineup of Kris Dunn, Coby White, Chandler Hutchison (making is season debut), Thaddeus Young, and Luke Kornet.