New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nAll five Bulls starters scored in double figures including Matas Buzelis posting a season-high 28 on an ultra efficient 10-of-11 shooting display with a career-best seven triples.<\/p>\n
It marked season-highs points and assists (41) for the Bulls including nine players scoring in double figures for just the fourth time in franchise history in arguably their best offensive performance under Billy Donovan.<\/p>\n
Dyson Daniels and Josh Giddey faced off (AP Photo\/Colin Hubbard)Source: AP<\/p>\n
But Giddey conceded they needed to tighten up on the defensive end.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt probably was (our best offensive game as a team). Probably our worst defensive (game) as well,\u201d the Aussie said post-match.<\/p>\n
\u201cScoring 150, you\u2019re going to win most nights, (but) they scored 150 as well!<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was one of those nights, both teams played extremely fast up and down the floor. We\u2019ll watch film and see what we need to get better at.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut offensively when we have nine guys in double figures, that\u2019s kind of the recipe for us how to win games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like Giddey, Daniels also flirted with what could\u2019ve been his first career triple-double, registering eight points, nine rebounds, nine assists and two steals.<\/p>\n
Jalen Johnson produced another dominant performance with 36 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists and Young put up 35 points with seven threes and nine assists in his second game back from a knee injury that sidelined him for 22 contests.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t enough as the Hawks suffered a third-straight loss to fall to 15-15 overall as their season dwindles, with just two wins from their last nine contests.<\/p>\n
After it was tight down the stretch of the fourth quarter, Giddey nailed an important clutch three to give Chicago a handy 146-142 buffer with 1:11 remaining.<\/p>\n
Coby White split a pair of free throws to take the Bulls lead to 149-142 with 48 seconds on the clock.<\/p>\n
Josh Giddey goes up for a shot on Trae Young (Photo by Kevin C. Cox \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP)Source: AFP<\/p>\n
Atlanta responded with back-to-back threes down the stretch through Young then Johnson to get back within a point at 151-150 with 5.9 seconds to play. Buzelis split a pair of free throws at the other end to give the Hawks a chance to force overtime or win the game with a triple.<\/p>\n
But Young missed a 16-foot pull-up floater in the dying seconds after trying to draw a foul on Tre Jones and Giddey, before going at the refs afterwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad he went up and shot the ball normally, he probably had a better chance to make it. But he was trying to sell a foul,\u201d Chicago commentator Stacy King said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the referee didn\u2019t give it to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow caller Connor Onion added: \u201cIt felt like justice that it didn\u2019t get called.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giddey said of the final play: \u201cWe knew they were going to go to Trae, Trae or Jalen. We talked about how we were going to cover it in the timeout. Me and Tre came together with the big and we ran it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe tried to draw and foul and I tried to stay away from him and make him make a tough shot. Tip your hat if he makes a running floater fading away from the rim from 17 feet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad we were able to get the stop and close this game out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two teams will rematch again in Atlanta on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Giddey just missed out on a triple-double as his Chicago Bulls outlasted Dyson Daniels\u2019 Atlanta Hawks 152-150…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2620,2095,4131,7218,64,63,195886,684,8640,174696,2066,197904,86176,12183,165030,12840,800,11371,2105,197908,12836,63704,3512,2041,2067,5849,197902,197903,197909,197906,168036,85,197907,197905,42307,179347,2614],"class_list":["post-363801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-america","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-back-to-back-threes","tag-ben-cotton","tag-billy-donovan","tag-career-triple-double","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-connor-onion","tag-defensive-end","tag-dominant-performance","tag-double-figures","tag-dyson-daniels","tag-espn-inc","tag-final-play","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-high-scoring-thriller","tag-jalen-johnson","tag-kevin-c-cox","tag-knee-injury","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-offensive-game","tag-offensive-performance","tag-players-scoring","tag-pull-up-floater","tag-season-highs-points","tag-shooting-display","tag-sports","tag-stacy-king","tag-starters-scored","tag-state-of-georgia","tag-tre-jones","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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