The Chicago Bulls (hereafter referred to as Chicago) won a come-from-behind victory thanks to Jack LaVine’s performance in the second half.

Chicago beat Toronto with a 109-105, 3-point margin in the NBA 2022-23 season Eastern Conference Playoffs lower seed game held at Skoshabank Arena in Ontario, Canada on the morning of the 13th (Korean time).

Chicago, which advanced to the 8th seed match,카지노사이트 played a big role in the game that day with Jack Lavin with 39 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, Demar DeRozan with 23 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, and Nikola Vucevic with 14 points and 13 rebounds and 4 assists.

Toronto, who finished this season, had Pascal Siakam with 32 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists, Fred Vanveleet with 26 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists, including 7 3-pointers, and Scotty Barnes with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 2 steals.

Toronto took advantage of the size advantage at the beginning of the game and accumulated points one by one. Here, Scotty Barnes also fired the outer gun, but Chicago continued to pursue with the defense of Patrick Williams and Alex Caruso. Then, Van Vleet broke Chicago’s perimeter defense with three 3-point shots and knocked the inside out with a breakthrough score. However, Chicago also made the score chasing 23-28, 5 points with Williams’ 3-point shot.

Toronto took Chicago’s spirit away with Jacob Puddle’s feeding and solid rim protection at the high post. Accordingly, Siakam scored 13 points in that quarter alone, and Benveleet also made a fantastic buzzer-beater 3-point shot. Thus, Toronto ended the first half with a 58-47, 11-point lead.

Labin, who was sluggish during the first half, woke up from hibernation in the third quarter. Lavigne made an Andone play with a quick break in transition. Starting with this, he succeeded in scoring 17 points in that quarter alone. Toronto also came out in the fourth quarter with Van Vleet running away with two 3-point shots, narrowing the score to 81-72, 9 points.

Chicago, who started the fourth quarter pleasantly with Williams’ 3-point shot, blocked Toronto’s offense consecutively with blocks by Caruso and Beverly. LaVine connected good defense with a pull-up 3-pointer, broke Siakam’s pass, and made all free throws. Chicago succeeded in directing a tie with Caruso’s five consecutive points. In addition, Caruso cut off a pass from Barnes and Puddle to equalize again.

Soon, when Beverly succeeded in reversing with a 3-point shot, Siakam put in a tip-in dunk. Then Labin also inserted a stepback jumper and passed a pass that saved DeRozan’s cut-in. Van Vleet, who appeared at the moment of crisis, tied the score with another three-point shot. Lavigne managed to break through again, and DeRozan also broke through the defense and scored. Toronto, which still had a poor free throw, continued its hopes with a successful challenge on VanVleet’s loose ball foul.

When VanVleet failed to make a fast-breaking 3-pointer after a defensive rebound, Rabin also failed to make a pull-up 3-pointer. Siakam, who got a chance to chase, missed another free throw, but immediately made up for it with a breakthrough dunk. However, while Anunobi got on the baseline and pushed the breaking Lavigne, allowing two free throws, Caruso also gave up a 3-point foul on Siakam. Siakam, whose free throw success rate was not good that day, missed two free throws.

Afterwards, Chicago beat Toronto by 109-105, 4 points, with Vucevic making all the free throws.