Issues obtained ugly throughout the Chicago Bulls’ matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night time.
The Bulls solely misplaced 110-97 ultimately, however the sport was nowhere close to as shut as the ultimate scoreline instructed.
Chicago was down by as a lot as 31 factors and by no means stood an opportunity after trailing 41-12 late within the first quarter.
Actually, a lot of the sport was straight-up embarrassing earlier than Philly subbed out Joel Embiid for the whole fourth quarter and stopped attempting.
For starters, Embiid not solely dropped 31 factors, 15 rebounds and 10 assists in three quarters, however did so whereas consuming Jolly Ranchers mid-game.
Joel Embiid giving the Bulls the enterprise whereas consuming Jolly Ranchers. pic.twitter.com/gMgxjWKn1x
— Darnell Mayberry (@DarnellMayberry) January 3, 2024
It was a horrific taking pictures sport for Chicago, ending the night time at 37-96 (38.5%) from the sphere and 7-37 (18.9) from lengthy vary.
However issues can all the time be worse. They have been nonetheless a good distance off the worst taking pictures sport of all-time, which funnily sufficient is a report held by the Chicago Bulls of 1998-99, who managed to make simply 23.4 % of their area objectives in a dismal 49-point efficiency (additionally an NBA record-low) that didn’t characteristic a single three-point make.
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Elsewhere in tonight’s sport, Ayo Dosunmu had a second to overlook, regardless of being one of many Bulls’ solely two half-decent shooters, when 76ers teen Jaden Springer spiked his shot into one other dimension.
Then there was Kelly Oubre rubbing salt into the injuries. Though he’d suffered a noticeable drop in kind since allegedly being the sufferer of successful and run, Oubre burst out of the gates and had 13 factors within the first quarter alone.
That’s greater than his common for a full sport since getting back from the damage. Oubre even blew a kiss to the Bulls’ bench, which suggests somebody from Chicago should have been speaking smack whereas getting completely dominated.
Andre Drummond additionally had some tough moments, regardless of grabbing his standard haul of rebounds.
As a substitute of going arduous in opposition to his previous teammates, Drummond gave the impression to be utterly okay with getting destroyed by them:
Drummond obtained the ball ripped away and simply stood there 💀 pic.twitter.com/X1gxthfMwp
— BrickMuse (@BrickMuse) January 3, 2024
Don’t let the ultimate rating idiot you, this actually was an absolute disasterclass from the Bulls.
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