The Chicago Bulls did not suffer the biggest loss in NBA history on Tuesday. The Memphis Grizzlies’ 73-point victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2021 is still alone.
The Bulls also had less than the most anemia quarterly or half the history against the Detroit Pistons.
Here’s a list of the amount of reasons why the Bulls should feel better about their 132-92 loss to the Pistons.
The NBA blowout quirk is the ultimate score and does not reflect how ugly things were obtained at some point. The huge deficit can be softened by low stakes basketball for a few minutes of low effort. The real mark of the blowout is when the arena accepts what’s going on.
For the Bulls, that was probably when they entered halftime 71-29 after one of the worst offensive halfs in basketball history. This is the team that faithfully reports that fact:
Here is the next tweet from their timeline:
As a team, the Bulls shot 52-12 (23.1%). As a team, they were 1/23 from the 3-point range (4.3% – yes, 4%). As a team, they committed 10 turnovers.
And it all opposed the Pistons, a solid team, but it definitely wasn’t among the NBA defence elites. Detroit surpassed Chicago 34-18 in the first quarter.
Rookie Matas Buzelis led the team with 12 points. Chicago completely empty the bench, so all players on the active roster scored at least three points. This is an achievement in itself.
This kind of performance isn’t shocking from real professional athletes, but the Bulls don’t really play at this point. Their 22-32 records actually put them in the final NBA play-in spot, but they have a more talented team with the Philadelphia 76ers (they have a healthy lineup in two games) (assuming you can get the Toronto Raptors and Brandon Ingram got it through trade.
Meanwhile, the Bulls have just traded Zach Labine and should have probably traded more players with a future eye. As evidenced by the 40-point loss on Tuesday, there is not much reason to believe the roster has reason to believe it can take advantage of the play-in spot.
