For young players out there, the lesson here is about always boxing out.
The Bulls and Hawks were tied 108-108 with :04 left, the Bulls were inbounding the ball with one last chance. They got it to their best clutch player, DeMar DeRozan, who faked left and then spun back toward the baseline for a fadeaway. Four Hawks were around the basket to get a rebound but none of them put a body on the Bulls’ Ayo Dosunmu, who slid past all of them to get the rebound and hit the putback game-winner for Chicago.
The only Hawk who boxed out his man was John Collins, but he didn’t grab the rebound and ended up on the bottom of the Bulls’ celebration.
DeRozan finished with 28, Zach LaVine had 22 and Nikola Vucevic 20 as Chicago picked up its second straight win on the road after dropping 7-of-9 overall. Trae Young led the Hawks with 34.
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