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It remains the fourth-quarter tell the Bulls sit and wait for.
The blood in the water.
It could be a subtle deep breath with a long exhale, or it could be more obvious with a player hunched over, hands on knees and tugging on his shorts. That’s when the Eastern Conference leaders know they have you.
“Your shot starts coming up short, you see the legs go,” Bulls forward Isaac Okoro described recently. “You see the hands start going on the knees, and that’s what you want to see. You want to see the opponent tired because that’s when you start killing them.