Things bought ugly through the Chicago Bulls’ matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday evening.
The Bulls solely misplaced 110-97 in the top, however the recreation 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 in the primary quarter.
In reality, a lot of the recreation was straight-up embarrassing earlier than Philly subbed out Joel Embiid for your complete 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 capturing recreation for Chicago, ending the evening at 37-96 (38.5%) from the sector and 7-37 (18.9) from lengthy vary.
But issues can all the time be worse. They had been nonetheless a great distance off the worst capturing recreation of all-time, which funnily sufficient is a document held by the Chicago Bulls of 1998-99, who managed to make simply 23.4 % of their discipline 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 recreation, Ayo Dosunmu had a second to neglect, 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. Although he’d suffered a noticeable drop in type since allegedly being the sufferer of successful and run, Oubre burst out of the gates and had 13 factors in the primary quarter alone.
That’s greater than his common for a full recreation since getting back from the harm. 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 common haul of rebounds.
Instead of going exhausting in opposition to his outdated teammates, Drummond gave the impression to be fully okay with getting destroyed by them:
Drummond bought 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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