{"id":123999,"date":"2025-11-30T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=123999"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:20:17","slug":"%f0%9f%94%a5-bulls-meltdown-continues-chicago-falls-to-another-cellar-dweller-this-time-the-pacers-deliver-the-knockout-blow-ll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=123999","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd25 BULLS MELTDOWN CONTINUES: Chicago Falls to Another Cellar-Dweller \u2014 This Time the Pacers Deliver the Knockout Blow..ll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulls didn\u2019t give up 120 points Saturday night in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t get outrebounded, they won the free-throw-line battle and shot better from three-point range than the Pacers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com\/indiatoday\/images\/story\/202509\/josh-giddey-102049378-16x9_0.jpg?VersionId=wFE3c5oBtFSdlTKDlV9wFQowRl8bZRFq&amp;size=690:388\" alt=\"Chicago Bulls re-sign Josh Giddey after breakout season - India Today\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All steps of progress.<\/p>\n<p>One problem \u2014 they also didn\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a pump-fake pull-up jumper from 14 feet away as the final horn was about to sound, Pacers forward Pascal Siakam handed the Bulls a third straight loss, as well as their fourth in the last five games, with a 103-101 decision.<\/p>\n<p>How the Bulls have been losing was an obvious concern, especially after a stellar 5-1 start to the season, but who they have been losing to is the real punch in the face. They started the road trip against the two-win Pelicans and lost, tripped up against the four-win Hornets and now were done in by the three-win Pacers.<\/p>\n<p>The main culprit in all three was not getting key stops when needed, whether it was an offensive rebound by the opposition or letting opponents blow by for easy baskets. The defense remains a concern for Billy Donovan\u2019s 9-10 crew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn drives, that has been a challenge for us where we\u2019ve had the ball driven through us quite honestly to the basket,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cI think we have to be better absorbing the first dribble. The rebounding has been a challenge for us; we\u2019ve got to do a better job in those areas. I would say our biggest challenge has been the controlling of the basketball, in particular one-on-one and in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh Giddey led the Bulls with 17 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>If there was any good news to come out of the game, it was Coby White. After not playing in the back-to-back games Friday and Saturday because of a calf strain he suffered in August, he won\u2019t be restricted again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pascal Siakam delivered the latest knockout blow, a 14-footer as the clock ticked down to zero Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":124000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\ud83d\udd25 BULLS MELTDOWN CONTINUES: Chicago Falls to Another Cellar-Dweller \u2014 This Time the Pacers Deliver the Knockout Blow..ll - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=123999\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\ud83d\udd25 BULLS MELTDOWN CONTINUES: Chicago Falls to Another Cellar-Dweller \u2014 This Time the Pacers Deliver the Knockout Blow..ll - 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