Chicago Struggles With a 1-5 Start to their Highly Anticipated Season

The Chicago Bulls are now 1-5 after their loss on Saturday night to the Toronto Raptors. The final score was Raptors 101-Bulls 71, and you can bet that coach Scott Skiles and his players were not too happy about the follow-up to their first win of the season. The Raptors were playing their fourth game in five nights, but still managed to clean up the Bulls without too much effort. The Raptors were leading 41-30 at the half and sealed the game when they opened the third quarter by outscoring the Bulls 14-1 for a 52-31 lead. The sellout crowd at the United Center was not pleased with the Bulls performance, and boos began to echo throughout the stadium as the Raptors 21-point lead ensued.

Although coach Scott Skiles took all of his starters off the floor with 9:35 left in the third quarter, it didn’t seem to do much for Chicago’s game. “I never want to do that. On a night when the boo-birds are out I don’t want to embarrass the group like that. I thought I would take a gamble right there to see if someone could come into the game and be a catalyst for us. I felt like in unison that group was not performing really well,” said Skiles. Luol Deng, Tyrus Thomas, Ben Wallace, Ben Gordon and Kirk Hinrich never returned to the game. Andres Nocioni was the high-scorer for the floundering team, leading Chicago with 20 points.

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