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Low-effort moments are seemingly increasing for the slumping Bulls

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Bulls coach Billy Donovan does not like to threaten his players for low-effort moments, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been consequences. Is that enough for this suddenly slumping defense?

BOSTON — Forty-six threes allowed in just the last two games was a bad look for the Bulls.

The lack of effort made on some of the closeouts to minimize all those long-range daggers, however? A flat-out embarrassment.

Case in point was Exhibit A in the Tuesday night loss to the Celtics, when a light screen was thrown in the direction of both Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic, with neither player putting up much fight to get through it or bother attempting to close out Al Horford’s three-pointer.