DeMar DeRozan and the rest of your Chicago Bulls head to Utah to take on Donovan Mitchell and his Jazz in a cross-conference battle of playoff-bound pseudo-contenders tonight.
The 41-27 Bulls and the 42-26 Jazz, both the No. 4 seeds in their respective conferences, may on paper appear to be evenly matched. Unfortunately, recent trends would indicate that the Jazz, especially at home, have a significant advantage against a Bulls team that has looked listless in dropping six of its last eight contests. The Bulls have struggled on defense without Lonzo Ball for all eight of those games and Alex Caruso for six of them, and have been exposed on offense as being over-reliant on the brilliance of DeMar DeRozan to bail them out in late-game situations with his incredible arsenal of jumpers.