Yet, the early struggles didn’t damper Portis’ spirits or make him want to leave; it only forced him to work harder.
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“That’s the way we’re supposed to play”, he said.
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“Surprising?” Portis responded, quizzically. I thought we gave in a little bit there in the fourth quarter. “I try to look at wins”.
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Chris Bosh scored 16 points and Goran Dragic had 15 points and seven assists for the Heat. The Bulls maintained their dominance ending the quarter with a 34-18 lead, as Nikola Mirotic led the way with 11 first quarter points.
A microscope has been placed over the social lives of Knicks players, a product of two occurrences in the last two weeks of late-night revelry turning into robberies – including one violent. While that includes some minutes where Mirotic was playing small forward and Pau Gasol was at center, Mirotic and Portis were great when entrenched at the four and five.
It was bad enough he needed help to get out of bed to make it to the Bulls practice facility, and he was actually listed on the team injury report, although he says he was in no danger of actually missing time.
Mirotic drained three 3-pointers, Butler hit open jumpers, backup point guard Kirk Hinrich, starting for Rose, flew past Calderon for a driving layup, Taj Gibson was a brute on the offensive boards, and Portis made both of his shots.
“It’s such a big goal to be Australian and represent your country at the Olympics – hopefully I have a chance to do that this year”, Bairstow said. “I’m not even joking”.
“I woke up the next morning, feeling it for real”. Noah hasn’t taken contact to the shoulder since injuring it in a collision on December 21, but Hoiberg said he’s doing “very well”. It would have been less of an affront against the game of basketball had the team exhumed James Naismith’s corpse, took turns defecating into the skull and then used the feces as kindling to set the bones on fire, and James Naismith nearly certainly would agree that would be preferable to what occurred in the 4th quarter against the Bulls.
As far as how Hoiberg will juggle five bigs when Noah does return?
That quote sounded rosy then, but it echoes much louder since Portis has become one of the steals of the draft.
“I don’t know”, Hoiberg said of how he’ll handle the rotation.
“That’s something about the Bulls that I like, that they just don’t put rookies out there”.
The Sun-Times reported that multiple sources indicated talks for Noah had been intensifying before he suffered the injury, and if the free agent-to-be gets a thumbs up from doctors on Monday, those talks will undoubtedly resume once he gets back on the court.
Lengthy stretches against East opponents might help the Chicago Bulls and Toronto Raptors see their places more clearly in the conference, and a second matchup within a week between the two provides a good start.
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DeMar DeRozan leads the team in scoring, however, with 22.9 points, but his sub-30 percent three-point shooting needs some major tweaking.
