Chicago Bulls: 3 takeaways from loss to the Miami Heat
By Ryan Taylor
The Bulls were lazy in a lot of areas tonight. Shot selection, transition defense, and fouling, just to name a few. The Bulls emphasize the fact that they can always control their effort against opposing teams, and that did not show versus the Heat in some places.
The Heat are a below-average fast break team, and that’s not pointing out a lot. If you have ever watched the Heat play recently, you would know they run a slow, methodical offense led by Jimmy Butler.
This season, they rank 22nd in fast break points and 18th in fast-break efficiency. They should not put up 15 fast-break points on the Bulls. Mostly in the first quarter, the Bulls failed to pick up the ball in transition and allowed the Heat to get physical downhill.
The Bulls’ shot selection got undisciplined in the game, especially towards the end when the Heat started to run away. As a team, the Bulls shot 37.4 percent from the field versus the Heat. This season, the Bulls are shooting 48.6 percent as a team.
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Attributing to one of the Bulls’ main problems this season, they turned the ball over 16 times on Friday. Not as bad as the night prior, where they gave up the ball 19 times. But, they still rank second to last in the NBA in turnovers, averaging — guess what — 16 turnovers per game.