<div align="center"> Chicago Bulls (9-15) vs Bucks (6-16) Date: December 26th, 2004 7:00 pm (EST Time) TV: Last Games Bulls 89 @ Pistons 82 W Blazers 104 @ Bucks 95 L C-Dan Gadzuric (PPG 6.0 RPG 7.3 APG .4) PF- Joe Smith (PPG 11.4 RPG 8.2 APG 1.1) SF- Desmon Mason (PPG 17.8 RPG 4.7 APG 1.9) SG- Michael Redd (PPG 21.5 RPG 4.4 APG 2.6) PG- Mo Williams (PPG 8.6 RPG 3.60 APG 6.5) G- Mike James (PPG 9.4 RPG 2.1 APG 3.6) " target="_blank">http://www.nba.com/media/playerfile/chris_duhon"></a> PG- Chris Duhon (PPG 4.1 RPG 1.80 APG 4.6) SG- Kirk Hinrich (PPG 14.8, RPG 3.7, APG 7.1) SF- Loul Deng (PPG 13.5, RPG 4.9, APG 2.0) PF- Antonio Davis (PPG 5.0, RPG 4.6, APG .8) C- Eddy Curry (PPG 14.2, RPG 6.1, APG .8) PF-Tyson Chandler (PPG 9.30, RPG 9.80, APG 1.0)</div> <div align="center"></div> *The Bucks are a team that are on a huge losing streak right now after a very good season, and the Bulls are riding a lot of momentum one thing the Bulls need to not do is to not take the Bucks lightly. The Bucks are a team that can take advantage of you if you under estimate them, and its not like we are the Bulls on the 90's we are difinetly beatABLE. * Get Tyson Chandler involved early. Tyson the last couple of games has really not been involved much in our offensive game plan. The plays we run for him at times are consistant and work yet we never go back to him. We need to keep going to him if he is shooting well for us to be successful. * Have Ben Gordon shoot well. Gordon is one of the biggest parts of this team unless he plays well we will have a hard time winning. I think that Gordon has proved he desevres to be place dback into the starting lineup, but that Skiles is a little worried about messing up team chemistry and losing that spark off the bench if he places Gordon in the starting lineup same reason why Chandler is still on the bench in my mind. * Close out the game. One of the biggest reasons for our new found success is that we learned how to keep a lead, and close out games. We got to continue that tonight to be successful. We can not lay back, and take this game lightly with the confidence of this team at such a high level right now. <div align="center"> MVP Ben Gordon: 20 points 5 assists, 4 rebounds </div> This game will be Bulls pace at the start like they have begun each game thus far in this win streak, but I think the Bulls will lay back and feel to relaxed in the second causing them to lose there lead, and fall behind by eight points. After half time, and a little half time speech from Skiles i think the Bulls will come out nad play with energy and seal this game winning by eight points.
Just as i thought the team under estimated the Bucks, and Michael redd just lite us up. For a season high of 39 points, and he also had more rebounds then Eddy Curry this game. Gordon had another good offensive night led the team in scoring with 19 points yet the Bulls jsut couldnt pull out a win. How about this 23 fouls 18 turnovers, and we where out rebounded 41-37. Just a bad effort. To tell you the truth I expected we would take the bucks lightly, but thought we could rebound in time to salvage a win, but not tonight. Final score was 99-92 for those who missed the game.
