Warriors swarm, steal, and run their way past Bulls
The Warriors swarmed and ran their way to a impressive victory over the Bulls. What keeps going wrong for Chicago and Derrick Rose in Oakland?
| Final - 12.26.2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Bulls | 22 | 19 | 20 | 30 | 91 |
| Golden State Warriors | 30 | 27 | 21 | 21 | 99 |
The Warriors swarmed and ran their way to a impressive victory over the Bulls. What keeps going wrong for Chicago and Derrick Rose in Oakland?
Monta Ellis and Stephen Curry outplayed Derrick Rose as the Golden State Warriors beat the Chicago Bulls 99-91 on Monday.
The Warriors woke up from last night's ugliness and struck the Bulls hard and fast for win #1 of the season. Links, postgame videos.
Recap tomorrow morning, it's too late to think more about that dreck.
Bulls down 16 at the half, Warriors looking faster and more athletic at every opportunity. But still, get your Monta Ellis lusting over with now: this, like all Bulls games, is winnable.
[Thanks to runningman for today's game preview (sign up!). I hope all of them are merely half as good as this one -ed.] I had a ten-thousand word treatise prepared on what Mark Jackson's phrase,...
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago | 22 | 19 | 20 | 30 | 91 |
| Golden State | 30 | 27 | 21 | 21 | 99 |
| Chicago | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luol Deng | 41 | 10-15 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 10-2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2-0 | 22 |
| Carlos Boozer | 25 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2-0 | 6 |
| Joakim Noah | 25 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 10-3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1-0 | 7 |
| Richard Hamilton | 24 | 5-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3-0 | 10 |
| Derrick Rose | 39 | 4-17 | 1-8 | 4-4 | 5-1 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3-0 | 13 |
| Ronnie Brewer | 15 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 2-6 | 4-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 4 |
| Taj Gibson | 22 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 9-2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2-0 | 5 |
| Omer Asik | 9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3-0 | 0 |
| C.J. Watson | 19 | 3-10 | 3-6 | 4-4 | 2-2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3-0 | 13 |
| Kyle Korver | 16 | 3-6 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-0 | 11 |
| Brian Scalabrine | DNP - Coach's Decision | ||||||||||
| John Lucas III | DNP - Coach's Decision | ||||||||||
| Jimmy Butler | DNP - Coach's Decision | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 34-82 | 8-24 | 15-22 | 47-14 | 16 | 3 | 20 | 3 | 21-0 | 91 | |
| .415 | .333 | .682 | Team Reb: 11 | Total TO: 0 (7 pts) | |||||||
| Golden State | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorell Wright | 33 | 6-10 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3-0 | 13 |
| David Lee | 34 | 8-16 | 0-0 | 6-8 | 7-1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2-0 | 22 |
| Andris Biedrins | 13 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2-0 | 0 |
| Monta Ellis | 37 | 10-17 | 1-4 | 5-6 | 2-0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3-1 | 26 |
| Stephen Curry | 37 | 7-12 | 1-3 | 6-7 | 7-1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4-0 | 21 |
| Kwame Brown | 23 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 3-6 | 6-1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 5 |
| Brandon Rush | 26 | 2-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1-0 | 5 |
| Ekpe Udoh | 13 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1-0 | 4 |
| Ish Smith | 4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0 |
| Klay Thompson | 10 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0 |
| Dominic McGuire | 5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 3 |
| Jeremy Tyler | DNP - Coach's Decision | ||||||||||
| Chris Wright | DNP - Injured | ||||||||||
| Charles Jenkins | DNP - Coach's Decision | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 36-77 | 4-15 | 23-31 | 36-7 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 19-2 | 99 | |
| .468 | .267 | .742 | Team Reb: 10 | Total TO: 0 (22 pts) | |||||||