The Bulls Wednesday, in this season’s premier home showcase game, showed they were a good team, a season highest scoring first quarter and nearly so by halftime, Nikola Mirotic superb with 24 points off the bench and three steals, Kris Dunn and Robin Lopez with 16 each, six players scoring in double figures and David Nwaba with biting defense. But the Golden State Warriors with an absorbing 119-112 victory showed the Bulls they weren’t quite good enough.
“We were trying to match them at their game,” said Zach LaVine, who did dunk for the first time, but had his first difficult game in his return with five points on two of 12 shooting.