DeMar DeRozan boss size, THAT’s a real big win

After an ultra-solid start to the season but sometimes relativized by weak competition, after the bamboo blow struck by the announcement of the injury of Patrick Williams for the entire season, we could have found the Bulls KO standing, all the more against a team of Jazz still undefeated before showing up at the United Center. But that was without counting on DeMar DeRozan and the responsiveness of Billy Donovan’s men. Very big victory for the Taureans, and this one might mean something.

The house stats of this Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals are right here

You always have to grop your way. Not a story of easy punchlines or underestimating the forces involved, simply the background of a team that we were no longer used to seeing winning and for which it takes time to set up and assume, perhaps, his new status. Six games only for the Bulls, everything to build, but the victory of the night against the Jazz will undoubtedly make a date in the history of this season. Indeed, it was necessary to stuff them with these leaders, sure of their strength, undefeated in four games and with an imperial Rudy Gobert since the start of the season. First information of the evening? It is therefore Javonte Green who takes the place of Pat the Sophomore in the starting five, fairly logical reward for a solid start to the second-year player’s season. Second info? Freak Derrick Jones Jr. should have the chance tonight to show his worth in the Bulls jersey, it’s not too soon.

The DeLorean heats up and in the first half the Jazz and the Bulls offer us a confrontation that is both virile and exciting, carried by two leaders in full swing. Donovan Mitchell on one side, DeMar DeRozan on the other, who kick in as the leader changes in the first quarter, while before half-time the Jazz asserts the depth of its talents to turn narrowly in the lead. The Bulls’ racquet is crumbly but their snipers limit damage, 57-52 Jazz on the pee break, something tells us that promises. The key to the second half? Chicago’s awakening defense, Lonzo, Caruso and the unexpected Tony Bradley and Derrick Jones Jr. get the job done, and if DeMar DeRozan definitely sets his boss in Illinois, Zach LaVine in turn recalls who is the offensive leader of the team and also climbs in temperature. Donovan Mitchell might do the job across the way, the tide has turned in Windy City’s favor, we hope you have it, and a Lonzo Ball alley-oop for Air LaVine will punctuate a very big highlight of the Taureaux, still carried by a neat and focused DMDR. In front of the absence of Mike Conley is felt, Jordan Clarkson does not give a damn about the world in defense and the second hardly unites, and it is finally a Nikola Vucevic really damaged by the best friend of his best buddy who will end up pulling out the wheelbarrow in the last minutes after a last freaking close-up of the trumpet players.

A very solid victory for the Bulls, which puts them back in the lead in the East but above all proves that Billy’s gang has resources after 48 complicated hours. The following ? Boston, the Sixers twice, Brooklyn, Warriors, Dallas, Clippers, Lakers. And if I get out of it, without any bruising on my body … and we no longer remember the rest.