Did you really expect anything different?
The Bulls didn’t mail in Wednesday’s game against the Celtics, at least not in terms Billy Donovan’s rotation decisions. Alex Caruso was held out, but Zach LaVine was back in the lineup and Donovan treated this like a normal game. Well, it certainly was a normal game in that the Bulls got absolutely embarrassed again by an East contender, barely showing a lick of competitiveness in a 117-94 loss.
The Celtics destroyed the Bulls from the start, going up 31-14 nine and a half minutes into the game. Chicago’s bench showed a little bit of fight to get the deficit down to 37-30 early in the second quarter, but Boston picked things up again with a dominant two-way performance to get it to 67-51 at halftime.