
Joel Lorenzi
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Chicago based NBA writer @TheAthletic. Joe-L. Out West forever.
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Alex Caruso, asked if the Spurs feel like a problem that needs to be solved: “There’s nothing that needs to be solved. We could’ve won the game tonight. You would’ve been asking them the same thing. I don’t think there’s this narrative that this is a bugaboo. We should’ve played better and won the game and been in the NBA Finals. They’re a good team, they’re young. (We’ll) both probably be around for a while. But we’ve gotta get better and try and win next time.”
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SGA noted that OKC “needs Chet.” Asked about his conversations with Holmgren after the series, if they’ll talk about his approach to the summer: “I haven’t talked to Chet about that. I won’t. I don’t feel like I need to. I didn’t perform my greatest this series either. Chet won’t come to me with a development for the summer, you know? Chet knows how much I care about this game. I know how much Chet loves this game. … he’s going to be a better player because of his make-up, his talent. I don’t need to umbrella Chet. He’ll figure it out.”
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Vooch called Bulls soft in walk-off. Afterward: “We just didn’t play up to NBA standards.” Addressed the team postgame and said “I don’t think we understand that it’s just not sustainable to play this way.” What’s most upsetting? “It’s things that we can really control.”
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LeBron x Ben Taylor here. This crew can’t say they’ve gone without feedback.
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Nikola Vucevic, the Boston Celtic, checking in. Weird stuff. Told me the morning he got traded in Milwaukee he was ready to come off the bench if need be at his next stop. Here he is, talking shop with Jaylen Brown and giving a cheeky wave to the Bulls bench.
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Shai’s been fighting to get free. He steps into a moving 3 here.
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Coby White on his year-long calf issues and playing 30 mins in his last Bulls game before MRI with Hornets revealed a strain “Everybody can have their opinions, but I feel like the medical staff always had my best interest (in Chicago). If I would’ve never got traded, I probably would’ve never said anything about it, just because I thought it was just tightness. I didn’t know, they (the Bulls) didn’t know, that it was a calf strain. It was nobody’s fault. It was never hindering me from playing. Not like I felt it in my right one, my right one I knew I strained.”
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Loaded postgame from Jaden Ivey, who thinks tonight was his first DNP of his career. Said it doesn’t change his character and that he’s here to “do his job, glorify God.” Asked if he thought this was a possibility, he says “going into it, you gotta look at who’s on the roster. … getting traded, that’s what happens in the NBA.” Says he’ll be ready when his name is called.
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Ayo Dosunmu said last night that Bulls are refusing to use common sense at times: “Coach is telling us a thousand times to box out, and on film, we’re going to the glass, not boxing out, standing around. … He's been completely honest with us. He’s telling us, ‘If we don't do this, we're going to get these results.’ … We keep saying the stove is hot, and we keep touching the stove.”
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Josh Giddey on what’s left him feeling like a more complete player, and specifically as an off-ball guy. “Confidence. Being in a place where I’m wanted. I love being here. … that’s what you need as a player. “I love when we’ve got other handlers. …Obviously the situation was different in OKC, they’ve got the best player in the world. You want the ball in his hands. It’s just different situations. I love the guys I get to play with every night.”
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This happened way too fast, but looks like Ajay Mitchell and Anthony Gill went from words to contact really quickly. Never seen Mitchell blow up like this. Jaylin Williams and Champagnie got involved. Game wasn’t exactly chippy, but there have been some eyebrow-raising fouls
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