What the Chicago Bulls’ devastating defeat to the Detroit Pistons taught us

The Chicago Bulls hosted the poorest NBA team this season in the Detroit Pistons, giving them a real chance to increase their victory total and climb the Eastern Conference standings. But the Bulls were unable to complete the victory, losing to the lowly Pistons 105-95 to collapse to 27-31. Two lessons can be learned from the embarrassing loss.

In Tuesday night’s game against the Pistons, how poor was the Bulls’ shooting? It was a poor historical year. As the Bulls shot just 2-for-29 from outside the arc, they recorded the second-worst long range showing in NBA history. In a 2014 loss to the Houston Celtics, Chicago’s three-point shooting percentage of 6.9 percent is only surpassed by the Boston Celtics’ 4.0 percent mark.

The Bulls missed their first 11 three-point shots and were once 1-for-22, so the writing was on the wall from the start. Despite shooting at least 39 percent from three-point range, Coby White, Ayo Dosunmu, and Alex Caruso went a combined 0-for-15 on three-pointers.

The Bulls responded by going to their double-big combination of Nikola Vucevic and Andre Drummond, while the Pistons welcomed back strong power player Isaiah Stewart to their squad, meaning a formidable frontcourt tandem with Jalen Duren. Both players performed admirably: Drummond came off the bench to score 20 points and 11 rebounds, while Vooch finished with 25 points and 10 rebounds.

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