We tried to throw the ball into areas of the floor we didn’t need to. “It wasn’t like they really change anything defensively,” Donovan said of the turnovers. The Trail Blazers fed off the Moda Center crowd’s energy to boot, shooting better than 54 percent from the field, hitting four of nine 3-point attempts and getting nine in-rhythm points from Powell to raucous ovation. Still, the Bulls shot nearly 20 percentage points better from the field and 3-point range, forced 11 turnovers and scored 14 fastbreak points, leading 63-48 at the break.Ĥ. But the Bulls completely let go of the rope in the third quarter, committing 10 turnovers (three apiece from DeRozan and LaVine) and watching what was a 20-point first-half lead dwindle to four entering the fourth. The Trail Blazers visited the charity stripe 18 times in the opening two quarters, making 17 of those tries, while the Bulls went 3-for-4 from the line. But the free-throw line kept Portland alive. By game’s end, even with the comeback, they had 31 points on 10-for-32 shooting between them.ģ. The Bulls opened up as much as a 20-point lead in the first half, dominating at both ends of the floor. At the half, Lillard had all six of the duo’s points, and they combined to shot just 1-for-10 from the field. That drought extended until the 5:13 mark of the second, when Lillard scored on an Alize Johnson goaltend. on switches late in the period after he checked in at center.
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Credit Ball (on Lillard) and Alex Caruso’s (on McCollum’s) brilliance on-the-ball, plus Derrick Jones Jr. The Bulls held their lauded starting backcourt of Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum scoreless in the first quarter on combined 0-for-5 shooting.
They shot 6-for-10 from 3-point range in the opening frame, getting 11 points (3-for-3 from 3-point range) from Zach LaVine, 10 points (on 5-for-8 shooting) from DeMar DeRozan and six points (2-for-2 from 3-point range) from Lonzo Ball.Ģ. Portland, meanwhile, did not. The Chicago Bulls looked well on their way to an 11-4 start to the season on Wednesday night in Portland.īut a dominant first-half effort, which saw them build as much as a 20-point lead on the back of sharp shooting and disruptive defense, quickly devolved into defeat as the Trail Blazers stormed back to win 112-107 on their home court.ġ. The Bulls got off to a hot start shooting the basketball, sprinting out to a 15-6 advantage in the first four minutes and leading 33-24 after the first.