The Bulls and Nuggets were somewhat mirror images of rosters in last night’s game. With so many players unavailable on both sides, the top-end talent looked somewhat even with reigning MVP Nikola Jokic playing for Denver yet the Bulls still having Zach LaVine starting, with Aaron Gordon and Will Barton and Nikola Vucevic and Lonzo Ball also playing and this comparison is getting a bit thin.
But anyway, the two stars produced. Jokic posted a triple-double and his team was +7 in thirty-six minutes in a game they lost by 12. LaVine was out there for 39 minutes and went into takeover mode with crazy shotmaking in the second quarter onwards, finishing with 32 in a game where no other player exceeded 20.