The Bulls were the better-rested team, while still missing DeMar DeRozan they were still facing off against a Thunder squad on the second end of a back-to-back, and playing its third game in four nights. But it sure didn’t look like that on Friday.
Instead, our Chicago Bulls, as so often happens, fell down big early to the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder, expended a ton of energy getting back into the game during the contest’s third period and ran out of steam with sloppy two-way play in the fourth quarter.
The ultimate margin: a younger, longer, quicker, more athletic Thunder club schooled Chicago late, 124-110.