The Bulls finished out with a 97-95 victory, and they will be back in action Wednesday night against the Brooklyn Nets, while the Cavaliers travel to Memphis to play the Grizzlies. “I wish it was a blink, but it’s all the time”, he said. “I told him, ‘Aim for the middle one.’ That’s part of it right now – the depth perception. He can’t come to our games anymore”.
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A few of the players including LeBron James say it’s an honor to play in front of him.
Basketball’s biggest name and worldwide sport superstar LeBron James was in town with the Cavaliers.
And for all the talk of Hoiberg’s faster offensive pace, two defensive plays sealed it for the Bulls. Butler broke up Williams’ inbound pass.
“We’re not yet where we’re going to be, and I said that coming in”, Cavs coach David Blatt said after the game. And there will certainly be times when the Bulls need a post presence or Gasol gets his pick-and-pop game going. Jimmy Butler added 17 points and two steals for Bulls.
With President Barack Obama among a delighted Chicago crowd, the Bulls toppled the Cavaliers 97-95 on Tuesday in a thrilling opening night duel.
Rose, playing with a mask to protect his fractured left orbital, shot just 8-of-22 after missing nearly the entire pre-season. Noah grimaced as he sat, although it’s not his surgically-repaired knee. James recently received an anti-inflammatory injection in his back – his second in 10 months – and his minutes will be closely monitored all season. These two Eastern Conference rivals have no love for another, though the Cavs will have Love back in their lineup. “It will be us, our traveling staff, our traveling team against those 20,000 fans and the Bulls, so it’s going to be a tough environment”, Love said. “Right now, we’re just focused on improvement”. Last season’s finalists were +9 when Varejao played, and there is an argument that he should play more minutes in the absence of Iman Shumpert. And about the only times he left his seat on the bench was to implore the Bulls to play with more pace. And there is a whole lot of work ahead for James and the Cleveland Cavaliers if they hope to get back to the Finals for the second straight season to capture the first major professional sports championship in their city since 1964. The Cavs shot just 40.4 percent from the field, while the Bulls were ever so slightly better at 42.5 percent. James had 25 points and 10 rebounds in the game and he had a chance to tie things up at the end, but he was rejected by Pau Gasol.
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Van Gundy, also in charge of personnel, retooled his team during the offseason, though, and the results were definitely positive at least for one game.
