<font color="purple">Milwaukee Bucks</font> (24-33) @ <font color="red">Chicago Bulls</font> (29-27) TV: Fox Sports Net North Radio: 620 AM WTMJ WHEN: Monday, March 7th, 2005 TIME: 7:30 PM Central WHERE: United Center, Chicago, IL Previous Game Bulls 85 @ Bucks 95 SAME LAST GAME FOR BOTH Streaks Bulls: Lost 3 Bucks: Won 1 Probable Starters C: Dan Gadzuric/Eddy Curry PF: Joe Smith/Antonio Davis SF: Desmond Mason/Andres Nocioni SG: Michael Redd/Chris Duhon PG: Mo Williams/Kirk Hinrich 6th Man:Toni Kukoc/Ben Gordon Coaches: Terry Porter (second season, 65-73) Scott Skiles (second season with Bulls, 48-73; fifth season overall, 164-152). Injuries Bucks- TJ Ford- OUT (Neck) Bulls- Luol Deng- OUT (Ankle) Jared Reiner- OUT (Quad) THE SERIES The Bucks have a 2-1 edge in the season series after winning Saturday at the Bradley Center, 95-87. ABOUT THE BULLS: Coach Scott Skiles thought that turnovers and offensive rebounds were the key to the Bucks' victory over Chicago on Saturday night. The Bucks had 17 offensive rebounds compared with 11 for Chicago, and Milwaukee scored 23 points off 19 Chicago turnovers. "We gave them 38 points off turnovers and offensive rebounds," Skiles said. "It's tough to win when you do that. Every time that we started to get momentum going, we would have a couple turnovers in a row or they got us on the glass."). Matchup to Watch Michael Redd vs Ben Gordon Redd: 22.6 PPG 4.3 RPG 2.4 APG 44% FG Gordon: 14.8 PPG 2.6 RPG 1.9 APG 44% FG Prediction The Bucks head to Chi-Town for the rematch of Saturday's Bucks win. This should be another good game, but I'll predict the Bulls earn the season series split with a home win. Bulls by 7
Milwaukee 22 17 18 28 85 Final Chicago 21 24 20 25 90 Bucks Leading Scorer- Michael Redd 26 pts Bulls Leading Scorer- Kirk Hinrich 17 pts Bucks Leading Rebounder- Joe Smith 12 Rebounds Bulls Leading Rebounder- Andres Nocioni 8 Rebounds Bucks Leading Assists- Mo Williams 8 Assists Bulls Leading Assists- Chris Duhon 10 Assists Bucks fall to 24-34 Bulls improve to 30-27 Next Games: Bucks: vs Atlanta Tuesday Bulls: vs Milwaukee Monday GMan's MVPs: Kirk Hinrich
