Bulls Lose their Season Opener to the Nets 112-103

The Chicago Bulls didn’t have the season opener they had hoped for last night. The Bulls lost last night’s game to the New Jersey Nets 112-103, marking their 12th straight loss to the team since 2001. Chicago had a bad start as their sloppy playing early on in the game seemed to cost them the loss. Of the game, Coach Scott Skiles said, “For 2 ½ quarters or so, we were just a step slow. BG (Ben Gordon) got us going with his shot-making. Then we got into the game and had our chances. But [not getting offensive] boards, falling asleep on a critical out-of-bounds play…just a bunch of little things. We had balls passed to us right in our hands, and they went out of bounds. All kinds of plays we need to make in key moments, we weren’t able to make them.”

Ben Gordon scored 16 of his team-high 27 points in the third quarter, giving the Bulls an opportunity to pull out a win. The team’s intended winning play in the final seconds of the fourth quarter broke down and left Ben Gordon launching a desperate three-pointer that was deflected by the Knicks’ Vince Carter. Center Ben Wallace rebounded but failed to get the ball in the hole at the buzzer. The game went into overtime and with 3:19 left New Jersey was up 101-98. With 37.6 seconds left Richard Jefferson hit a three-pointer to make the game 108-102. The Bulls didn’t get the game they were hoping for, and with things still unsettled in terms of a possible Kobe Bryant trade, things seem still up in the air.

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