BULLS POSTGAME: Josh Giddey, Nikola Vucevic Come Up BIG – Bulls Move to 3-0! | CHGO Bulls Podcast

BULLS POSTGAME: Josh Giddey, Nikola Vucevic Come Up BIG – Bulls Move to 3-0! | CHGO Bulls Podcast

What up, Bulls Nation? We’ve got live CHO Bulls postgame coming up right around the corner. The Bulls take down Trey Young and the Hawks. 128 123. They are now 3 and 0 on the year. The Bulls put eight players in double figures, including their entire starting five. That means even Isaac Aoro scored 10 points tonight. We’re going to break down the win next. Bulls. [Music] Yeah, [Music] heat. [Music] What is up Bulls nation? Welcome in to see us show Bulls postgame coming to you live from our studios here in West Loop downtown Chicago. I’m PCB Bulls_p that’s my guy Big Dave. Bam bam bam. Three and 0. BWL sports. Our king of the controls. Our guy Joey C. What up? I’m not talking one. I’m not talking two. I’m talking three. Baby, give it to me. Joey C. Bulls win. Bulls win. Give it to me. Joey C. Bulls win. Do it till my arm get tired. Bulls win. Give it for Matt Pex. Goate team. Bulls win. Get one for Will to go. Bulls win. One for the people in the chat. Bulls win. One for CHO. Bulls win. And please give one for yourself. Bulls win. Bulls win, baby. Feels good. Three and 0. What? We are three and 0. We three and0, baby. What the hell is going on? Excited to break this one down with y’all, our fellow Bulls fans. CO Bulls postgame is presented by Michelob Ultra and Bat 365. The delicious taste of victory like tonight’s deserves some something equally superior. Cheer on your team with Michelob Ultra and download that Bet365 app. Use promo code CGO365 when you sign up. Whatever the moment is never ordinary at bat 365. Shout out Bulls fans in that chat. Hit the like button right now nice and early. Throw us some super chats. If you’re feeling happy and generous tonight, my goodness. My goodness. Uh shout out to the wrong the the Ronkey show in the chat who said Matt Peg is happy with the win and therefore I am happy. That’s right. I am happy. Guess what? Me and Rooney for L’s, that was last season. That’s it. Bulls aren’t tanking. They not very clearly. Clearly. I want Bulls wins. Let’s go. I am Am I surprised they’re 3 and 0? Yeah. Yeah. Yes, I am. Everyone should be like Everyone should be surprised and very very happy that they’re 3 and 0 cuz we ain’t seen it in 4 years. Oh my god. I forgot how this felt. I forgot how it felt. looked that we were talking in pregame about how the Bulls maybe benefited from their opponent’s poor shooting even with open looks in their first two wins. Correct. Tonight, neither team shot particularly well in the first half. Both teams kind of got their offense going in the second half. But this was a classic Bulls Hawks game, Dave. We also talked about that in pregame. Bulls Hawks, you never know who’s going to come out on top, but it will be frenetic, fast-paced, chaos in the fourth quarter. Both teams making runs up and down the floor. Um, and and I mean, shout out to Billy Donovan. I feel like he just kept the Hawks guessing cuz his rotation in the fourth quarter, it was like, you’re in, you’re out, you’re in, you’re out, you’re in, you’re out. Yes, that’s great. Billy Donovan kept the Hawks on their heels, I think, with the way he played that fourth quarter. Iodumu again closing, making big shots down the stretch. Huge. V making big defensive plays to spark fast break points late in the fourth quarter. Huge. Josh Giddy. Josh Giddy playing off ball on a late possession where Trey Jones is creating Josh Giddy’s defender sags off of him. Y Trey Jones sees that, draws a double, kicks it out to Josh on the other side. Mhm. Josh confidently and calmly knocks down a big three to put the Bulls lead back up by six. Bang. I mean, my goodness, dude. That was a fourth quarter that the Bulls won. Yes, they won that fourth quarter after things got a little dicey. Just a little dicey. Listen, that whole second half, like I believe it was Bulls scored 40 in the second half. I believe it was 4134 uh in the second half as far as the scoring was concerned and in the fourth quarter it was just more of that. Both teams throwing haymakers at each other, man. Just roundhouse left and rights at each other. It was a knockdown dragout heavyweight fight that went 12 rounds. And then when you watch the Hawks go Kungu when he hits the three and puts them up by six like they’re like, “Oh yeah, we got this one.” Pull his hand. No, no, no. We going to go ahead and take this victory. And they came right back down and they go on a run, man. And they did it with timely scoring and timely defense. Matt, they frustrated Atlanta in that second half defensively. They attacked. It was that that death by a thousand cuts defense I talked about that they used to have. You saw a lot of that tonight, man. They were on them in that second half. What I like about this so much is that when it was game time, who when it was time for them to really actually have it, that’s when everybody, not just one, not just two, three, four, five, all of them picked it up. When it was time and it was on the line, we gonna get into I sumu and what he did, which was absolutely incredible. Leading the team and scoring off the bench, that’s some Ben Gordon stuff right there. But the shots he were hitting were key. Joshua Giddy. Yes. Yes. Yes. And more. Yes. For Joshua Giddy for that. He had a game. And when they had to have buckets, he had buckets for them. How about the bucket at the end where he goes up, Matt? He makes the drive and Josh Giddy misses it. And we’re like, and what’s Giddy do? Say it’s cracky. He goes up. He snatches it. He’s like, I got that rebound. kicks it back out and resets everything and allows that clock to run down to seven seconds. I don’t know what Atlanta was doing and they didn’t foul right away, but Giddy getting that rebound was huge. So, the fact he didn’t hit the shot, but it’s the fact that he got the rebound, his effort all night for this team was huge, man. From that second quarter on, like he was scoring a lot in that first, he was getting his score on, but that second quarter, his effort defensively, especially how they closed the second quarter. Yeah. And he was attacking and just going after loose balls. Anytime a ball went up, he thought it was his or he had a chance to get it. His effort, man, it was contagious out there. I give all the love in the world to the game I saw Josh Giddy have tonight and the rest of the Chicago Bulls scene. This was a great win for them. And and look, you know, we talked about in their win against the Magic where Giddy wasn’t on the floor for a part of that crunch time, you know, fourth quarter minutes. Uh, and Billy Donovan, I believe, clarified in tonight’s pregame media availability that it was not the finger sprain. It was Billy making a decision to ride Iodumu in the way that he was playing well down that game. And so when Giddy was not on the floor around whatever it was, the five five and a half minute mark of the fourth of a tight game, you’re wondering like is Billy about to, you know, just let Giddy ride this one out on the bench because, you know, IO’s again making big shots, playing well. You want Trey Jones out there? No. Then Giddy subs back in and then makes those big plays. He he knocks down the three when he’s playing off the ball and Trey Jones finds him open. Yes. His defender sagging off and then yeah, he didn’t hit that little runner in the lane that he tried, but the effort to keep that alive on the offensive glass. That was one of Josh Giddy’s 13 rebounds tonight. It was the only offensive rebound he had and it could not have come at a better time. Got to preach right now. And whether it’s rebounding or anything else, Iodumu talked about it uh postgame interview. They’ve been talking about it for the first couple weeks of the season. It’s everything is by committee. It’s like we’re a deep team. We we might not have any superstars on this team, but we’re deep and everything needs to be group effort. Whether it’s defense, whether it’s, you know, crashing the boards, being a better offensive rebounding team. Uh they they did have 12 offensive rebounds tonight. But how about your starting quote unquote backcourt of Trey Jones and Josh Giddy? Yes. 20 combined rebounds. 13 for Josh, seven for Trey. Seven, by the way. And toss it in. Toss it. Trey Jones uh combined rebounds and assists. Uh I said in pregame take the over 10 and a half. 16. Bow. There you go. Matt Peg, ladies and gentlemen, that’s how he does. Trey Jones just Trey Jones is so good. My god. An outstanding point guard game from Trey Jones. Joey C. And that’s the thing is like Bulls fans like we can’t fight about this stuff. We had three backcourt players have a great game tonight. And when Billy Donovan can play the matchups like that, this is winning basketball, right? Like, well, you know, I get we’re going to get into Kobe White and everything, but when he adds to that mix with that loaded back court, if you get that consistent play from Trey Jones and Josh Giddy and also, oh yeah, IO Duma, who is absolutely awesome tonight, those are great problems to have Bulls fans. Like, and that’s why Billy can play with those matchups a little bit and it worked out tonight. Not only are they great problems to have, they’re new problems for to us to have as a Chicago Bulls fans watching this team. We’re not used to having these kind of problems right now. Like having too much talent on the team, have might not having space for talent on the team. Yeah, that’s not a problem we’re we’re used to having right now. But we have it and we’re going to hold on tight to it, man. Because they’re three and 0. These ain’t BS, they wins. Come on. Do it again. Do it again. Bulls win. One more time just for you. Bulls win. I’m just telling you, man. Like just the way that this season was set up and many many times you heard me sit here and say day one day one you’re going to find out day one what this is going to find out day one if it’s real going to find out day one if the Bulls are the Chicago Bulls that they set themselves up to be and now into the third game they are showing that they are the team that they are setting themselves up to be because after that 2 and 0 I was like yeah okay some stuff went bad some I don’t know but you know 2 and 0 I’ll take it I’ll take it it’s 2 and 0 I’ll always take two and0 it’s like taking Bears dubs when Caleb doesn’t have the best game. Exact. Oh, yes, man. Thank you. Yes. Wins are wins. Yes. I We We are Bears fans that sat and watch Rex Grossman have six turnovers in the game and still win. You know what I mean? Like, we don’t care. We trying to win. All right. It’s about winning. But that this game though, this was different tonight. Because I was like, “Okay, now this is a test. Everybody’s healthy on Atlanta. Everybody’s coming to play on Atlanta. And even though you don’t have Zack Collins, and even though you don’t have uh Kobe White, you’ve shown that you can beat and stay with these teams in the East that are that were the uh upper echelon teams last year and the teams that were predicted by everybody including us to be up there this year. And you’re going to come in and you’re going to play this way against that team, against this team in Atlanta with Trey Jones who I mean, sorry, with Trey Young who had a really nice game as far as the assists were concerned and everything. 17 times. Come on, man. You saw what Porzingis was doing to them. You saw what Johnson was doing to them. Like Dave uh uh Dyson Daniels was having a solid game. Um Okongu was having a really good game for them. Like they were really having good games. They were haymakers being thrown back and forth. And that is what you want to see as a as a fan and just a fan of the NBA and a fan of the Chicago Bulls. This is what you kind of want to see when a team is throwing their best punch at you. How do you respond to it? How do you respond? IO Dumu is how you responded. Kevin Herder the Velvet is how you responded. Josh Giddy is how you responded. Uh even even V is how you responded. And even Isaac Auroro shaking it off. That’s another thing we got to give Matt Peek love to cuz he told you it was motivation when he set that bet or as I like to call it, motivation is what was going on out there. And guess what happened? He showed up from the first quarter to the fourth quarter. So, not only did you get help defensively from him, you also got that help offensively and those were big points because you needed every single one of them from that young man. Like Aoro had a knockdown three and a hustle play bucket in the third when the Bulls were making that run. Yeah. Uh to to save off Atlanta. So yeah, credit to Isaac. Um Bulls won by I mean like just trading blow forblow in that fourth quarter. The Bulls came up with just enough defensive stops when they needed to, but you also saw like, yeah, the Hawks were picking the Bulls defense apart on some of those late fourth quarter possessions with their beautiful ball movement. And it was like, okay, didn’t get a stop that time. Now we need to answer. We need a bucket. Whether it was IO, Trey, Herder, Giddy, Vu, like any any and all the guys who were on the floor late in the game for the Bulls, everybody stepped up and made big plays, which is what you love to see. Uh people chiming in in the chat. Uh, JetRock saying, “Trey Jones, the point god. Uh, Trey Jones is a stud,” says Liam Pado. “Uh, Trey is nice, but let’s not forget what Kobe can do,” said Zubar. Uh, which is, you know, the the really fascinating question. Yeah. Kobe White, knock on wood, will be re-evaluated in another week or so with that calf strain. Correct. Correct. If we get Kobe back sooner rather than later and you assume that Kobe White who might be on a minutes restriction out of the gate for first couple of games, first few games, we’ll see how Billy wants to handle it and the medical staff. But like bring Kobe off the bench maybe for a game, but this man is on an expiring deal. Yeah, exactly. He was your leading scorer last year. Exactly. This dude is a weapon. Yeah. You don’t bench him. No. But with the way Trey Jones has played in these first three games, I mean, the way that you clearly see Billy Donovan’s grown trust in Trey Jones to be on the floor for 31 minutes tonight, including lots of crunchtime minutes, 147, and nine, by the way. Also a couple of steals. You see that stat they put on the broadcast. Trey Jones, first bull since MJ to have 10 steals in his first three games of the season. Just saying. How do you bench Trey Jones? How do you bench Trey Jones when Kobe comes back? I don’t know. The answer might be Billy doesn’t bench Trey Jones. It could be the answer. It could. We could pick up that part of the conversation on the other side. We got to hit our first ad break. Thank you all 800 plus of you watching live right now. Yes. Enjoying this Bulls W with your fellow Bulls fans. Hit the freaking like button. While you listen to our words from our friends and sponsors, throw us a super chat while you’re at it. We’ll be right back. Hit the like button. 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That means they are 3 and 0 out of the gate this season. Top of the East, baby. You saw that coming. Back Dave. Our guy Joe on the controls hanging out with you. Fellow Bulls fans. Hit that like button. I could just hear people like, “Who’s this dude screaming?” It’s me. It’s Dave. It’s me. It’s happy, excited Dave. The Bulls are three and 0. What? He’s been in hibernation for a minute, dude. But he’s back. Oh, he’s in hibernation, man. He is well rested. He is well rested and ready to partake. Cole Krug 3119 in the chat saying, “Billy’s psycho rotations will be great for the Trey Kobe Giddy Trio. It’ll be a huge strength, not an issue. We’ll see if Herder is who gets his minutes cut. Uh kind of bridging the tail end of our uh chat from before the break. Okay. Because like you I really like how much Billy is sticking to his word which was yo our rotations, our stints, whoever you are going to be short cuz we’re trying to play fast. We’re trying to be one of the fastest teams in the league. And to do that, even if we are a well-conditioned team, we got to keep those subs churning. And he did that tonight. I feel like he’s been doing that for the most part in all three of these first uh first three games. He also did some matchup tinkering tonight. He went small ball when the Hawks had a bunch of bigs out there. He had basically Pat playing the five. That’s true. I was, you know, and like dude, Chris Doss, did he take advantage of a couple of mismatches in in those minutes? Yes, he did. Oh my god. But I also think like Billy loves leaning small. Yeah. And we saw a brief stint of Jaylen Smith minutes in the first half that did not go well. Basically did not see him again. other than a very brief stint in the second half. Maybe that’s part of the reason why Billy went small. Yeah. But it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about front court, back court, rotation. Either way, Billy is churning these guys to keep them fresh. And it might be one of the things that he can as a head coach do to give his team an edge when we don’t have a go win us the game in the type fourth quarter player on this roster. At least not an obvious answer to that question. But he’s going to have running legs out there from the jump to minute final minute of the fourth. Yeah, man. Even to to echo that point, when we were watching the last few minutes of the fourth quarter and I’m standing with my nose on the screen watching the game, I continually kept saying, “Who’s going to be the guy? Who’s going to be the guy? Who’s going to be the guy? Who’s going to be the one to take over?” Because we don’t know who that guy is. It’s by committee. That’s the guy. The guy The guy is committee. So, whoever is going to be the person that day, that’s who it is. I Dumu said, “I’ll do that today.” And they’re getting the balls just to whoever’s open. Um, and it’s going to be the open shooter. And open shooter was continually Dumo in the fourth quarter. And he knocked them down when they had to have it. Even when the shot clock was running down, they were like, “Well, Giddy, it’s you. You got the ball. Four seconds left. It’s you, man. You go do what you do.” And so, it’s Listen, it’s working for right now. I’m rolling with it. Okay. Whatever gets you the wins and gets you the results that you desire, which is winning, then you go with that, man. And it is what is working for the Chicago Bulls in these first three games. And like I said, in this one right here and think remember that first half, man. They started off so sluggish, both those teams. Really sluggish, but especially the Bulls because Atlanta was executing them to death in that first half, especially in that second quarter. And that’s when they took a 13-point lead. They were ex to death. They were executing them. But as the quarter closed, Josh Giddy got real. He said, “I’m gonna be the guy who does it for the Chicago Bulls in this instance.” And he was the guy on literally on both ends of the floor. He was disruptive on the defensive end, which is what you want from a guy you don’t expect to be a great defender. On the offensive end of the floor, he was aggressive. He hit the wide openen threes that they left him. You leave him, he gonna hit him. That’s what he’s proving to you right now. But as far as his other scoring, he went inside all the time. Floaters, fadeaway, layups, hook shots, whatever, dipsy dues, whatever he could give you, he was going to give it to you, man. And that’s what got them close to that one-point lead. And then in that third quarter, the Bulls did what, and this feels good to say, the Bulls did what good teams do in the third quarter. They ran. All right. They came out and they said, “We about to go take this game over. It’s ours. And they went and they took the game over immediately in that third quarter, man. That is good stuff. I want to attribute a ton of it to Trey Jones. I really do because of the point guardsmanship. But it was a team thing, man. From Giddy to Voo to Modest. Modest. Oh my god. The Modest Dunk. My lord. Kevin Herder, the Velvet. What he did when he came in. Like it’s so many people that you can just pull and pick from and and just heap some praise on for the way that they played in this game. And also the coaching because what you said about Jaylen Smith is accurate. He wasn’t on it and Billy said we’ll have a seat next to me which allows me to say my favorite Billy Donovan saying he’s not beholdened to any lineup ever. And he definitely showcased that tonight Matt by saying Jaylen come on have a seat. We’re going to figure it out without you tonight. Not that I don’t like you. you just don’t have it tonight and I think we can win this way. Uh Hannibal in the chat saying Billy Donovan for goon of the night. Luke Nash agreeing. Billy for Goon. Great shout out. Don’t steal my pick. Hey, there we can have more than one person nominating the same person. Yes, it’s a communal thing. It’s okay. Luke Nash saying IO silver away. Jetros IO Dumu is a Hawks killer. Yeah. Johnny in the chat saying, uh, Isaac will get benched and Trey takes his minutes when Kobe is back. And then somebody else was saying, you know, you know, we need Kobe back to remind everybody that he is this team’s that guy. Um, so again, perhaps a good problem for Billy to have that the Bulls are off to this 3 and 0 start with Trey Jones playing this well. Yes. uh including late in tight games that you have a Kobe White waiting in the wings to come back and add to this equation which again could be a good problem and one where Billy just fits Kobe into all right here’s my starting five tonight we’re going to keep the rotations moving and then in the second half I’m going to look at what was working and what wasn’t working for us in the first half and then dole out minutes based on that and it might be Kobe and Josh and Trey out there it might the IO out there in one of those other three for my starting lineup tonight is going to sit for a chunk of the fourth quarter. Whatever it might be to help them win, but I feel like I mean like Billy Billy’s coaching had a hand in this victory tonight. And uh I I know it’s a trigger warning for all the Billy haters. Um but it it’s hard to deny when your team is a I saw somebody else in the chat use the phrase, you know, greater than the sum of the parts. Like that is what this Bulls team looks like. How far will it get them? We’ll find out come April. We’ll find out. We’ll find out how like AK’s deep team without any superstars plan works for them, but you can’t deny that it’s an encouraging start. It’s incredibly encouraging. Like because again, nobody expected it out here. I don’t care how big of a Nobody if you had 3 and 0, I hope you played it. Hope you played that 3 and 0 cuz nobody I talked to even the biggest of the Bulls fans had them at 3 and 0. everybody. Well, at least two and one was was the most I would hear when somebody would say like, “Dude, maybe they get two of these wins out here. That’ll be cool.” Yeah. And I was like, but the most I would hear was one and two or 0 and three. That’s the most I would hear, including coming from myself. I thought it was going to be this way. I didn’t see them getting these victories in the way that they’re getting them, but they’re getting them. And I am here to win. And I am happy when the Chicago Bulls win basketball games as everyone should be. No matter how it happens, no matter how the pie is sliced, as long as everybody’s eating, it’s a beautiful thing, man. And that’s why I’m so excited and happy because they’re 3 and 0. And Matt, now with 3 and 0, like I’m in a territory again, I ain’t been in it four years. So now you go into the next game with an expectation. That’s weird. That’s weird for me right now. Like, oh my god, I kind of expect them to win. Like, I expect them to win a game out here, bro. like and continue a winning streak that I haven’t seen since 2021. This is a great feeling, man. I hope y’all are feeling great, too, out here, too. And so, their next go their next opponent, and we can talk about more their next opponent more on tomorrow’s pod. We will uh the Sacramento Kings. Cuz to me, like, look, this is Atlanta play exit. Detroit and Orlando. Yeah. Made the playoffs, but didn’t go far, right? Correct. From last season’s results. That’s your 3 and 0 start. All Eastern Conference teams. Mhm. I’m curious how these, you know, bigger than the the sum of our parts bulls fare against some some West games coming up. And like the Kongs are the Bulls of the West. So I don’t know if that’s a true test of let’s see how they look against the Western Conference team. But hey, our old friend’s been balling. We we’ll see if the Bulls can can make it 4 and0 at that point. But um it’s uh it is very the other thing that might not be a very popular not it’s not even a take but just something to recognize as a fact. Mhm. The Bulls are not 3 and0 without Nicola Vuch. Oh like I’m sorry. I’m sorry to all the people who are Vu haters or ready for Vu to be gone. It’s true. 28 and 14 in their opening night win. Kind of had a come come back to earth a bit game in game two against Orlando but still helped them win that game. True. And then tonight, somebody pointed out in the chat, he was one assist shy of a triple double. Insane. Putting up 17 points and 17 boards. Insanity, dog. That I mean that and that part makes you wonder like expiring contract. Were Were we all kind of giving, you know, giving up and throwing in the towel on Vu having some trade value as we approach that mid-season trade deadline because it didn’t pan out last year? M is there a playoffbound team that would like to add Vu to their coffers um for for the stretch run or are the Bulls like well we’re in position to actually make a playoff appearance here. Yeah. And we’ll be a lot less good without Nvich defensive gaps be damned. Yeah. This team is not 3 and 0 without V. Yeah. Se like like you said defensive gaps be down because 17 and 17 is 177. All right. 17 and nine and two steals. He was a plus 11. Like he was outstanding for the Bulls and has been in in two and this is the second game where I’m like he was outstanding. Not to say he wasn’t cool in the other one, but like just outstanding like that first game Detroit was outstanding. It was 28 and 14 in this one. That is a crazy statline for your center to be putting up, you know, and and he was going against a guy in Porzingis who was having a heck of a game. Porzingis had 27 himself and remember he came out hot, Matt. He came out just scorching hot pulling up from the three-point line. I mean, man, he was on it. Porzingles was 11 to 17 out there, man. But Vuj countered that with a great job on the boards and timely scoring in the fourth quarter. He had some timely scoring for the Chicago Bulls, man. But the assist, the passing was great because a lot of those buckets were either to Velvet or to Lee and and they both definitely hit those layups and and scored for him. Man, it was it was a great game by V. You’re right. They’re not here without him. You’re right. Uh as uh Thomas Banks in the chat said, we’re one and two without Vu. This is a fine day in the chat. Vu IO and Jones our most consistent players so far. Yeah, Jashish in the chat saying, “Voo has been great this year. I’ve always been a VU supporter.” Um, and then meanwhile, uh, shoot, where’d it go? Somebody saying, “How in the world, uh, could, uh, could teams not want what V?” Oh, Luke Nash, how in the world is there not a team who wants a walking double double who shoots threes and passes? Well, his contract is not crazy in today’s NBA. Yeah. Meanwhile, Brad Sheily saying he’s still overpaid. Jojo, I take back every vouch complaint I ever had. He’s been vital for the Bulls. Um, there’s room for everybody. Come on in. he has value and uh the good passing thing that was brought up in the chat like he had nine dimes tonight. There were a couple where I was like, “Oh man, he is just such an underappreciated big man passer. He’s he’s not Nicole Joic, right?” But he had that one uh it was first half, I can’t remember if it was late first or early second quarter. He was on the block. He had, you know, made seal. He got positioning, got an entry pass on the block, and then Giddy made a really strong cut from the top right side of the key down through the paint and Vu just hit him with this perfectly timed bounce pass. Hit Giddy in stride on Giddy’s cut for an easy layup at the rim. And then in the second half, remember that whip bullet pass he had under the hoop to Kevin Herder when he was all the way up at the top of the key and it was like V like looked off to his right to maybe like, you know, fool his defender and then just like, you know, drew the defense away like a QB’s eyes with a safety and then just her snuck in from the dunker spot. Bam. Like on the money bullet pass from V. That stuff is so valuable for an offense where you you don’t have one superstar, you know, heliocentric offense. You’re trying to keep the ball moving. Vu keeps the ball moving. Yes, he does, man. And he makes it easy for guys out there, man. Like when you have a center that can make your game easier. Yeah, you should you should have a spot in the NBA on somebody’s team. Just saying. Make some phone calls. Ding ding ching lang. You can multitask with those phone calls while listening to these words from our friends and sponsors. We’ll be right back after this ad break. Hit the freaking like some super chats after the break. Throw some more super chats. Going to the night. Hey coaches, I’m talking to you. Guess what? Listen up. You looking for more athletes to train. You bringing to your fold to say, “Hey, I can make you a better, better basketball player, baseball player, whatever player.” Guess what? Eye on the ball is where you need to be, coach. Eye on the ball is very simple. You create a profile, upload your background check, and kaboom, you’re in. 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You know, I’m down for that. So, yeah, man. But Rose, Derek, Rose going into the rafters. Do not miss a part of history. This is die hards only right now. They are definitely selling right now to die hard. So if you’re a diehard, you might want to get on this, you know, very very soon. And if you’re not a diehard, you can easily become one for an awesome awesome price, man, and get all some amazing benefits. money off of all our events, 20% off all our events that we have, our takeovers, you know, our watch parties, all of that cool stuff, including getting access to Derek Rosement Night. Come join us in the sweet. I love being in the suite with Big Dave. Oh, man. What? Oh, you should hear how you guys sound. Off fair, but I sound amazing. I didn’t say you didn’t sound amazing. It just caught me off guard. Oh my goodness. Uh uh I’ll have uh Joey throw the link to that event page in the chat. Toss the link in there. It is still for a while longer only available to our CHO die hards. They get first dibs on that as they deserve. Uh, so hit up that link if you are a diehard or if you’re already feeling FOMO and want to participate, then become a diehard and then hit that link. That’s it. That’s all you can do, baby. Uh, somebody was just talking in the chat about the Bulls edge and bench points. Odiza 1688 53 to 36 bench points advantage. That was a big story in the Bulls win against the Magic on Saturday, Dave. Their bench was huge. I think they had 58 points or 56 points in that one. They outscored the Bulls starters uh on Saturday. Another big Bulls bench night. We talked about the brilliance of Iodumu. Lots of his 21 points coming in the clutch. Fourth quarter of a tight game, but how about 15 from the Red Velvet. How about 12 points from your man? Say it. Lee. Lee. Lee. Patrick Williams went four of nine, two of seven. He started 0 of four from downtown. That’s Patrick. Then knocked down a couple uh later in the game. That’s Lee. Uh you like that he didn’t lose the confidence to take the ones that were open later in the game after he started 0 for four that part Matt and you listen when you saw him early on and you saw him playing early on he he didn’t have it together okay and I immediately tweeted out too much Patrick not enough Lee wasn’t enough but you know what gave me hope Jacqueline Hyde baby Jacqueline Hyde Bruce Wayne of Batman the what gave me hope was when Patrick was struggling I looked in his eyes and I saw the sweat. I saw the forehead glistening. I saw it come down and I saw it. I was like, “Wait a minute. Lee is about to appear, ladies and gentlemen.” And then all of a sudden from the darkness for the people, the people Lee came out there and said, “I got this, man. Patrick, have a seat. I got this.” And Lee went out there and he scored in a myriad of ways. Huge three-pointers that he hit. Big time. big time rebounds that he got and then scoring inside. Matt, you saw him posting people up. Me and Jo me and Joey C was standing up watching it when he posted up and got the ball and finished with the left hand with the kiss off the glass. I was like, that’s pure Lee right there, ladies and gentlemen. Lee Patrick was in the house tonight when it counted. Yeah. As he’s leaving the locker room tonight, Big Dave, you reach out and you go, I never said thank you. And he turns around and says, “You’ll never have to.” And then after Oh my god. Oh yes. It It is It is great to be able to be happy about a game games plural that this young man is having. All right. We didn’t know he existed anymore. But in the darkness he was forging Raja Ghoul. I mean he was getting ready with Raja Ghoul. Crazy how much hype and and I’m not making fun of it whether it be you or anybody else in the chat. Shout out. I think one of our Pew Will Island survivors Rob just popped up in the chat. I’m not making I’m not making fun of it. It’s just observation how crazy it is how excited and supportive Bulls fans get with 12 points off the bench from Patrick Williams. Like that that’s how low the bar was coming into this season. Correct. It was like there’s really nowhere to go but up. And I think between the preseason minutes and then these first three games, there’s been some some modest upness of of the Patrick Williams, I’m sorry, the Lee Le Williams the Lee Patrick trajectory. That’s right. Which is which is nice to see. Ben him in the chat saying Patrick being the seventh person off the bench is perfect role for him. He was seventh off the bench tonight. It was Herder six, Pat seven, and then uh Billy got to IO, Jaylen, Julian, so on and so forth. So, you know, any like uh my hope essentially is that Pat is building some level of confidence. Yes. Even though he lost his starting spot again that like, hey, are you more comfortable as a bench player? It’s okay if you are. Like, that’s fine. Yeah. There there are some players on NBA teams on good NBA teams who come off the bench and make the money that Pat is making and their good games help them win and their bad games are part of the reason they lose. Boom. That’s it. I mean it is it fair to ask that is he he looks he just looks healthy right like you guys talked about it a couple weeks ago and offensive rebound and got an and one put and when go talked to him in the talked to him in the locker room and was like hey man you seem to be feeling pretty good and he kind of like smirked and didn’t want to like confess how he felt or whatever but like the dude is just simply moving smoother and faster and stronger and I don’t know if that’s confidence or whether that’s health but either way like it’s good news. No, it’s great news. And again, like I said, early on we saw Patrick because we saw him cross his own self over uh in that early on in that first half and went down because he crossed he broke his own ankles out there on the floor. But again, like I said, in the distance, you heard that cape flapping in the wind and Lee was going to show up and do what he had to do. And it was it’s just really great to see him have that confidence cuz like I said, that move, Matt, when I saw him, you know, break his own ankles, I’ve seen that break his brain in the past and that was it. You know, that would be like, “Oh, this the game. All right.” You know what I mean? He’s about to just not do anything and stand out there and shoot threes and not hit him all day. Even the threes he hit, he was bricking. But it didn’t deter how his effort, which is what we would sit up here and scream all the time. You can control that. You can control your effort in the game. You can’t control the shots. You couldn’t even control, you know, what your sneakers were going to do on the floor because you slipped on something. You can control what the ball always does. But you can control your effort out there. And that’s what we saw him. That’s boxing up. That’s boxing out, Matt. You know, that’s getting on the floor, diving for those loose balls. You know, that’s trying to go get those rebounds for your team, even tipping it out and just keeping it alive for your squad. That’s chasing down uh other Atlanta players when they think they got a wide open layup. That’s that effort that we’re seeing from Lee that we didn’t see consistently in years past. And whether it means he’s healthy and feeling good, whatever it means, it definitely means the Bulls are three and 0 because of his efforts. Uh Connor in the chat said, “We got to get Lee Patrick on basketball reference, you know, like under the nicknames category.” Come on, Bulls. Get it done. Let’s go, Lee Patrick. That’ll be a great day for me, sir. That’ll be a great day for your boy. Absolutely. Lee Patrick. Oh my. Uh Fantasy Cast podcast. The days of dry pad are gone. Lee is absolutely soaked in sweat. Uh, with that, you know what? Let’s dive into some super chats. Let’s knock out some super chats while we’re waiting for Goat. I believe the the media are waiting for Iote uh because they’re going to talk to IO, but he was still in the shower. So, goat’s running a little late, but he will join us later on. So, in the meantime, let’s get to some super chats. Uh TJ with a 199 super chat. Appreciate you saying this team might be better than everyone thought. Tell you what, right now at 3 and 0, they’re better than I thought. They’re better than anyone thought right now at 3 and 0 cuz no one had them at 3 and 0. Not even Fred had him at 3 and0. You feel me? Not even, man. Not not even the giddy committee who think I’m a hater and think that Giddy is the second coming of Jesus Christ thought they were going three and0 or I don’t know, maybe some did. The crying zs with his 49 79 super chat. Dyson Daniels smoked an open layup. Lol. Oi oi. He did. Yeah. Also, how about a little hard foul under the basket? Dyson Daniels committed on Josh Giddy on one of the Bull’s many, you know, transition. SP was nice. And then Oh, Giddy. Can he put him in the sweet cycle? He got him on that one. Uh Jav Terry with a $5 super chat saying, “Bull’s going to mess around and make me buy CHSN. Until then, I’m relying on you all and highlights. Keep up the great work. Let’s go, Bulls. Appreciate you, man.” Uh let’s see. Samuel, what does that say? Galoy. Yeah, Galoy, I believe. Yeah. A4 A419 with the $10 super chat. IO, the new king of the fourth, six man of the year. He’s going to get paid this year. Better be by the Bulls. I have been clutched since Illinois. Glad he’s getting the chance so far. He’s showing you you got to pay me. I am important. All right. From our earlier conversation, you know, Kobe’s not the only Bulls guard on an expiring contract this year. They got several. Yeah, there’s a few. Uh, one of our regulars, Just Joe. What up, Joe? With a 499 super chat saying, “This team reminds me of when Billy had CP3 at OKC. Much love, Matt, my brother.” in sciatica. Hey, shout out to you. Back’s feeling okay right now. It’s amazing what steroids can do and winning. Uh yeah, that Debo with a 499 super chat saying uh I I can’t read that. Just cut off Joey Z. Joey Z just got them all. There it is. There it is. This team reminds me of Oh, wait. All right. I did did that one. Debo winning. And we haven’t even had we haven’t even played our best offense or defensive players yet. Go Bulls. That’s very true. referring to I assume Kobe and Collins who are out. Oh, Prison Mike loves RC Cola. We got a name change from Prison Mike. What’s up, buddy? Back in the clink. But this year is different. I have my RC Cola and all Chicago teams are above 500 and the Bulls are undefeated. That’s right. Enough to make even a prison mic into Clink happy. Oh man, love that. Also see a super chat from Paul Sorenson. Appreciate you for $4.99. Paul, thanks for always hanging out in the chat. Also, one of our BFFs, Kimberly, with a $30 super chat. Thank you, Kimberly. You’re you’re you’re the best. I have to keep this streak going. Let’s hope I go broke this season. Oh, come on. Going broke on super chats. Going broke on super chats. There are worse things to spend your money on. That’s true. Super chats equal positive vibes. That’s it. Even if it’s a super chat on like a post game of a loss and you’re just getting out some frustrations, it is in a support system of Bulls Nation. That’s it. That still equals positive vibes. And we appreciate you very, very much for it. Thank you, Kimberly. You know what else is always positive vibes? Talk to me. No, no, he’s not positive vibes. Oh, he is positive vibes. I thought it was positive vibes. Let’s talk to the goat. [Music] That’s the goat. Join us on that Goat Talk Hotline presented, of course, by Megalob Ultra. The delicious taste of victory deserves something equally superior. Cheer on your team with Megalob Ultra. Goat Bulls are three and 0. They had eight players in double figures tonight, even including Isaac Aoro, who gets his first Bulls points in his career tonight after going scoreless in the first two. I mean, talk about a team win and the sum being greater than the individual parts. What was uh what was your biggest takeaway from this game? Well, I think number one, the the sum grid and the parts thing is huge. There was an anecdote from the Orlando game that they were talking about tonight. Um, obviously the this came out sort of in the post media from that, but um, apparently, you know, when the game was going on and I was playing well down the stretch, Billy sent Giddy up to the to the podium to go check in and Giddy like told him, “Look, I was playing really well. Like, let’s just keep it rolling. Keep it rolling out there.” And I think that that speaks to uh the camaraderie. I was talking about that a bunch uh postgame just about like how much these guys believe in each other, how close they are, and how much they believe in their depth. And so that was kind of my takeaway is like the self-belief, the willingness to sacrifice, and the quality of depth that this team has. The Pistons, the Hawks, and the Magic were three of the like most hyped teams in the Eastern Conference coming into the season. And the Bulls just took down all three, and they’re without Kobe White and Zack Collins. So, um, I think that there’s definitely a level of self-belief in this locker room. um not only with just like how well they’re playing but like that stretch you know the 15 and five you know I asked Giddy about it after the game he’s like I know we heard the noise kind of about like team taking teams and not getting everybody’s best we we beat some good teams and so uh that combined with obviously this three and 0 start everybody’s very careful to say like it’s just three games it’s not the whole season there’s a very long season in front of us 79 more games but I do think that there’s a level of self-belief in you know who these guys are what they can possibly do with this talent and I think it has a lot to with their depth and just the quality of players that they have up and down the lineup that allows Billy to go to experimental groups. It allows them to play the hot hand late in games um and sort of this willingness to sacrifice I think all all up and down the the lineup including from the you know guy who just signed for $100 million I think really goes a long way towards uh what this team can build. Yeah, it’s very well said. Uh, go, I would like to hear your opinion on these uh, two players, Isaac Auroro and Lee Patrick Williams. Um, I felt both of them were vitally important in this game tonight. And I I thought Auroro was important, you know, for the defensive purposes, but more so his scoring because we hadn’t seen him do that. And I thought that that was really key for him to still have that confidence and get double digits in those points. but also main man Lee just continuing to do what he has done in these past two games. Uh can you just talk about the play of those two guys and how they just are continuing to help the Bulls get the get these victories? Yeah, it was a rough start for Aoro. Um they call them Ice. Um he gave up like a back door and and a guy scored and then he missed a layup and it was like oh my god, are we going to have another game where he just struggles again? But then he immediately came down and had a layup. And I’m sure for him that kind of just like was calming that like got him into the right head space to be able to take it from there. You know, it was it was a couple of bad games. I was not like super concerned about it. Obviously like you want him to hit threes and he’s going to need to do that. Um but he’s a good enough defensive player and with the steals and the transition game like eventually he was going to start to score and so it was nice to see that open up a little bit for him. Um the box score has never been really friendly to him. like he’s not a high steals or blocks player and so like the advanced stats don’t really love him in that way but I do think that his physicality at the point of attack is super productive and it’s super helpful for this team. Um VH has been defending his tail off. He’s been really good but I think a lot of it comes down to taking away a lot of these actions before they start or forcing teams to start getting into their action you know at 154 on the shot clock instead of 181 19. that really goes a long way towards the Bulls being able to close out possessions, not letting teams get into their second action. And I think Aoro is really the head of the snake with that. So, great game from him. Great to see him bounce back. Um, and I think even better days ahead for him just with the three-point shooting and, you know, general, you know, box score stuff. Um, but but his impact, I think, goes way beyond that. And then Williams, I, you know, he started one of five, I think, in the first quarter, um, all threes and then got an offensive rebound putback. He was uh again not super productive in the sense that he was like filling up the box score but you felt him on possessions even to a point where it was like he was taking some shots where it was like okay you probably should move the ball there but there was one play in particular in the first quarter was the second quarter first half for sure where it was just like a swing swing and instead of like taking a semi-contested three it was a bullet pass to IO in the corner for a three and it was just like one of those quick snappy decisions that you don’t see a lot from Patrick um and I feel like he’s really starting to get like what the Bulls are trying to do and how he can fit into that and what he needs to do in order to be successful. So, it was a small thing. Um, but I do think his passing has been really solid this year. His extra facilitation has really helped the Bulls. I mean, they’ve got IO, Trey, and Giddy out there pretty much at all times, but Billy wants to have two ball handlers and I think Patrick’s trying to step up into one of those roles off the bench. So, great to see him building on games, right? We talked about this last time. Consistency is the key for him. And so, one good game, one bad game, that’s not going to cut it. He’s got to build every single game and this was another step in the right direction for me. Goat, I know you’re always fascinated with Billy Donovan’s uh rotation decisions, his his strategies. We already saw the double big look with Vu and Jaylen Smith um at at the early stages of the season. Tonight, we saw the opposite. We saw Billy go small and even stick with going small with essentially Pat at the five look for extensive minutes while Atlanta was going big. We also saw Billy keep those subs churning in the fourth quarter of a tight game. I’m guessing you or one of your fellow Beat members asked Billy about rotations and the small ball lineup stuff tonight. What What did he have to say about his coaching ideas tonight? Yeah, he never really like makes too big of a deal out of it. Like he it’s really impressive the way he can kind of just like make everything seem very level. Even from talking about like three good wins to three bad losses or something like he’s just always very level-headed. And I think that was kind of the sentiment with the rotation stuff, too. He kind of said like, I’m just kind of going on my gut right now, and if there’s a moment where like a guy’s hot, I’m going to keep him out there. I was shooting the ball really well in the fourth quarter. He kept him out there. He gave him a chance to close. He thought maybe they could try to get some open threes with Herder. They were trying to switch some stuff. Maybe that would open some things up for him. He was shooting well. He kept him in there. And then he went back to Giddy. And so I think a lot of it is just like reading the game and you know he’s been the first to admit like sometimes it’s not going to be the right call but I have to trust my intuition on this because that’s really like you know you’re following the hot hand. You’re following the style and who’s playing to the identity that they’re trying to go to. Um and so I think that was kind of the the gist with the small lineup too. I thought it was pretty unique and um you know notable just because like in the past when he’s done that it was like okay let’s throw two bigs out there because we’re going against Goar and Julius Randall or you know they’re going against Chat and Hartinstein. Can we can we figure out a way to get two bigs out there just to match that? This was the opposite. This was yeah you have Porzingis and Okongu out there. I’m going to go with Patrick Williams and Isaac Aoro. And he just said that he liked the physicality. He liked the length um that they were able to play with. I I don’t know what the numbers say about those lineups yet, but I think it’s interesting and I think it’s good that they’re experimenting with that stuff. Um Jill Smith got some opportunity, but still the Bulls went only 10 deep. And I wonder is this a way that he can kind of go to more players throughout the course of a game where maybe you go small for a certain lineup, maybe you go big, and then you can still make sure that everybody’s out on the court without it necessarily feeling like you’re going with very strict rotation. So, I just found it interesting. I think he’ll continue to experiment with it. I’m not making any grand conclusions based on, you know, two rotations of a small ball lineup, but I did find it interesting that he went to that, especially against the the Twin Towers love from the Hawks. Uh, go two more players that I kind of want to hear your opinion on. Um, Nicole Vuch with almost having a triple double out there. And as Matt was rightfully so, like, dude, he had nine assists. Like, yes, he had nine assists with 17 rebounds and seven points. and it was a plus 11. But also Josh Giddy and the game that he had out there on the floor I thought was huge. I thought it was his best game that he has played in these three games. Um and he was a plus three if I’m not mistaken. That’s the first game this season where he’s finished in the plus column. Correct. And you could see it. You could tell on the floor and the way that he was playing. He was awesome, man. Like 18 points, 13 rebounds, five assists, a steal, a block. like he really like stemmed the tide, you know, and settle things down towards the end of that end of the half in the first half and he did a really great job helping close the game in that fourth quarter, man. So, whichever player you would like to uh start with. So, I would love to know your your opinion on the games that those two guys had tonight. Yeah, I mean B was awesome. Uh 17 17 and nine. He had two steals. I feel like the defense has been the most impressive thing for me. Um, and Billy called this out post game, too, where it’s just like he’s not going to block a ton of shots, but like he’s in the right position, he’s between his men and the ball, and he’s like putting forth a presence in front of the rim with his hand up that’s just going to make things a little bit more difficult to score on. And I think that goes a long way. I mean, that’s like basically how Joic has been able to be effective as a defensive anchor for a Denver team. Obviously, not the same offensive player, and frankly, Jo is probably better defensively, too. But I I think that there’s certain element of just like can you execute the scheme, be in the right spot, show when you need to show, get back when you need to get back, be up to touch when you need to do that. Um, and he does it and I think he’s just been really locked in. And I think it would have been easy for Vu to kind of be like frustrated with the situation, not get traded again. Um, you know, not be on a team that’s competing for a championship, but he’s come in and I think he really likes playing with this young group. I think he likes the pace that they play with and and it just feels like it’s sort of invigorated him um in a way that’s nice to see and especially when he’s putting up these big numbers um and being such a key part of the Bulls offense like in the clutch they’re running Trey and V pick and rolls like he still is a very featured piece of this team even though it is trending in a younger direction. Giddy I thought was really good too. Um what was it 183 and five um I thought the rebounding was probably the most impressive. we had the one tip out on the offensive end at the at the you know in the final moments. Um but I think like the Bulls are able to get quick rebounds and push the ball up the floor and whether he’s the one pushing up the floor where he’s doing the hit ahead pass to Trey Jones who’s getting the Bulls into action. Um I think that just like puts the Bulls in a good situation. There were a couple plays where he was like tasked to do too much in the half court. Um and that’s just going to be an issue. But you know I think he had a really solid game. Uh he had that nice spin move against Tyson Daniels which I I know he was happy about afterwards. That’s his like one of his best friends. Um obviously the Australian teammates um and he got followed in that one too. So just a really solid game from him overall and and again I think it helps spur the identity that the Bulls are going for. So same with Trey, same with IO. All three of those guys I really felt like had solid games to what the Bulls are trying to do. All right, go. Before we let you go, who’s your goon of the night nominee? I think I’m going to go with the Cororo. Just the bounce back. um the physicality on defense. He he needed a he needed a game and he had one. So um again, nothing too crazy, but it’s good to see him get back in the scoring column and um good to see him make an impact on the defensive end. Only two fouls today in 24 minutes. So uh much better stuff from him today. Yeah, right on go. We appreciate the time. Bulls Nation, not only can you adore the QuaF looking gorgeous as ever, you can read his great coverage of our beloved Chicago Bulls all.com. Become a diehard so you can read all of it. the very best of it. Follow him at will_gota. He’s more than just hair, folks. He’s got the brains, too. That’s right. Go have a good night, buddy. We’ll talk to you tomorrow. Going to get out of here so I can talk about your hair now. Oh my goodness. So, that qua guys, scale of 1 to 10. You see the Joyce of the Night. Oh, y’all ain’t ready for that. That’s You see all the qua comments? I mean, the people are loving the qua. He pull out the mullet quaff on y’all tonight. This when you know things are cooking at the UC when the goat pulled out the mullet quaff goat goat talk quaff’s corner. What is it? I think I saw somebody in the chat saying goat’s ready to join the blackhawk hockey dude going on. I love that. I love it man. Awesome stuff. Awesome stuff. Shout out to the goat. Shout out to everybody for showing him the love in the chat. Uh as we now get ready to head to OT 100 miles. Just a reminder for all of you watching on our various streaming services. Appreciate you. Samsung TV, Comcast, Roku, all them fun places. If you want the bonus coverage of tonight’s CSO Bulls postgame or any CSO Bulls episode, just head to all CSO.com. That’s where you’re going to need to be to find out who the goon of the night winner is. Oh, it is time, ladies and gentlemen in the chat. Three and 0. That means it’s time. We got to vote. We got to vote for a goat of the night. JC, hit me one time with it. To be the man, you got to beat the man. I’m the man. Woo! Goon of the night. [Laughter] It’s here in my hands. It feels It’s precious. It’s precious. Oh, I love giving this out. This is very, very exciting to hand out and to give out because it means the Bulls won. All right. And that’s why it’s always cool to give out. Thank y’all for showing the love and support for Goon of the Night, Matt Peek. Yes, sir. We heard what Will the Mullquota had to say. Needed a game, had a game. Isaac, if that ain’t goat, then I don’t know what that was just a goat saying right there. But it’s on you now, sir. Who is your goon of the night? I’ve got to give my nom to Chicago’s own Io Dumu. This dude is like leading the team in scoring or close to it. Yep. Off the bench. Yep. 21 points tonight was a team high. Yep. Not only that, it’s the efficiency. Yes. It’s the big time big moment plays that he makes. Yes. The transition timely attacks to the rim. Yes. knocking down threes when he needs to knock down a three because the Bulls are clinging to a late lead. Yes, we talked to pregame Dave about how he cherishes these Bulls Hawks matchups, has his entire career, loves checking Trey Young and putting him in jail whenever he can. Clank. Uh and that while putting Trey Young in jail, IO himself offensively has been lights out in his career games against the Hawks. That’s true. Reminder, if you miss post or pregame, he’s shooting just over 50% from the field against the Hawks in his career tonight. Seven of 10. That’s 70% for some quick math. It don’t stop. Including four of six from downtown, three of four at the line. Few boards, couple of dimes, zero turnovers. Mhm. I mean, this dude, he’s a winning player. He just is. He just is. And on a night when you’re kind of wondering without Kobe White still, Dave, you were you said you were saying to me and Joey in those final few possessions, who’s it going to be? Who’s it going to be? The the possession where it was Trey Jones initiating the offense from the right side and it ended with Giddy’s man sagging off and Giddy getting the pass from Trey and knocking down a three. But as that position started in cross half court, you were yelling, “Who’s it going to be? Who’s it going to be?” I was as long as we don’t have Kobe White and that uh answer every night for crunchtime minutes. I makes freaking gamewinning plays and he made more tonight. He really did. Beautiful cil right there as usual from Matthew Peek. Yeah. Best three-point shooter on the team right now. Joey C, honestly coming off the bench. Joey, the C stands for KG. Yeah, my goon my goon of the night nominee has to go to with uh first of all the over 800 people in the chat tonight. Over 300 people that liked it. Saw a lot of people in here making this pick, so I’m going to go with them. But sometimes you wake up and you just look down into your gut. Okay, and sometimes you see an enchilada or a protein shake or a garbanzo bean. Well, Billy Donovan looked into his gut tonight. I’m talking about Billy Donovan’s gut. Looked right into that gut tonight. as the goat said at the UC and just masterfully worked those matchups, worked those possessions, worked three backcourt, you call them point guard, shooting guards, whatever you want. Had three guys going, had great games each of them. And Josh Giddy had a good game, but maybe it was the he was the third best player of that back court and he figured out a way for all of them to get minutes and contribute towards that tail end to come up with that victory. So, I got to give it to Billy D tonight. That’s really cool. He was awesome, too. Fantastic. That’s what I’m talking about. Well, here it is, y’all. They just made it tough. Here it is right here in my hands. It is the goon of the night belt as it shines so bright on the nighttime sky. Well, glistening. The goon of the night is Josh Giddy. Hey. is goon of the nights and I will tell you why. First of all, yes, I thought this was his best game of the three games that they have played without a doubt. Even he even when he was averaging 20.7 rebounds, six assists, he was shooting 40% from the field, 42% from three. I love the balance of the game that he played tonight because the turnovers were low and he had two early ones. Two early ones and then only one more for the rest of the game and that was it. respect. 18 points, the 13 rebounds, the five assists, but that one offensive rebound, as you pointed out, Matt Peek, was what sealed the entire game for the Chicago Bulls. And even on top of that, when Will the Goatly just told you when Billy tried to put him back in and he said, “Carie, coach, I Dumu is out there balling. I think he needs to stay out there.” That’s goon stuff. That’s going behavior. That means you care about winning. It doesn’t care about your stats or who looks good or does what. It’s about winning. That, ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion, is goon behavior. So, I award this goon of the night belt to one Captain Ky Joshua Giddy. Congratulations, sir. This belongs to you. This is yours. Look at that. Pick it up anytime. Three games. Three goons. Three games. Three goons, man. Three games. Wild. Three goons. Look at us. Look at us. Look at us station. Who thought to be here? Not us. Not me. Not me. Not me, that’s for sure. Let’s enjoy it while it lasts. Oh, I’m about to I don’t know how long it’s lasted, but enjoy the good times while they’re there. Let them roll. Let them roll. Keep it rolling. Keep it rolling. Yes. Well said, though. Blindfully said undefeated, Dave. They are undefeated. Both are undefeated. And another again, I want to give more love to Kevin Herder to the Velvetier himself. He these last two games was really awesome. When they needed that scoring punch in these last two games, he was there for the Chicago Bulls, especially in this one, man. That halftime, I he was he had 11 on four or five at half and he was awesome. He finished with 15 points. Uh but he was a what, a plus eight tonight. Like he was huge for them, man, down the stretch. and in 21 minutes finished six of eight with one of three from the three-point line, two of two from the from the free throw line, but those were 15 huge bench points that they truly truly needed because Jaylen Smith wasn’t able to give you those points tonight. Uh Julian Phillips, shout out to him. I thought I I love what Julian Phillips is doing with the minutes that he’s been given. He and that’s why Billy keeps putting him in because you notice it. He’s active out there when he gets into the game and he makes something happen. It doesn’t matter what it is. Something he is going to make happen. Whether it’s a steal, whether it’s diving for the loose ball, whether it’s just a a highlight dunk or a block or whatever. Tried to get himself a four-point play when he hit that corner three. Didn’t get the whistle, but he knocked the three down. He sure did. He sure did, man. He fell down and it was well done, sir. But he makes the most out of the time that he is given out there. And that’s all you can really ask for a young guy out there playing. But I love what Herder has been doing. And I love and shout out to Julian Phillips and what he’s been doing, man. So, yeah, let’s keep it rolling. Why not? And uh yeah, I mean, one last shout out. I know you mentioned his uh his baseline reverse slam. Oh, dear God. But credit to Modis for bouncing back after a really rough night on Saturday. It started off rough. Only played 12 minutes against the Magic. Fouled out. Was just in foul trouble all night. Couldn’t get a rhythm. tonight. Two quick fouls again, but he finished with those very same two fouls and managed to tack on 16 points, five boards. I was impressed by a handful of his rebounds tonight. He was working the glass. He was also had three dimes um and played 32 minutes. Like awesome, man. He said uh to apparently somebody uh I can’t remember who on Twitter had the quote, but apparently Modis came up to Billy on the team bus to or from the hotel or stadium, whatever, and said, “I I know I need to be better than I was on Saturday.” And he was. And he was. So, credit to Mus for the bounceback game as well. Being a man of his word. I mean, team win. That was that was a team win tonight. You got to love it. You’re right. Got to love it. Got to, baby. Uh, as we said, the Kongs are on deck on Wednesday. Uh, so we’ll see if they can get their first win against a West team when Zack Lavine, Demar De Rozan come to town. Oh, the attacker is Vacheri at the United Center. Sentary. Let’s go. Lavine’s been hooping. Oh, buckets on buckets on buckets. Capital H. Uh before we get out of here, Joey, did we get to all of the super chats earlier on? We did. We did a great job. Thank you for all the super chats over and everybody for your super chats. Everyone crushed the chat tonight. Appreciate you everybody in the chat for hanging out with us tonight. Hit the like button on your way out if you haven’t done it yet. Make sure you’re subscribed to the CS Sports YouTube channel to get alerts whenever we go live, which is five times a week postgame for every game this season. Uh we will have a pod for y’all tomorrow live 4:30 central to bridge the gap until we are back for pregame before Bulls kings on Wednesday. So we will see you then. Make sure you read our instant reactions from tonight’s game available now. All cho.com free for all to read and check out goat’s additional writing allo.com. Become a diehard so you can read all of his great coverage. Uh shout out to our king of controls the one and only JC Prince. Uh big day bow bports. I’m Bulls_pek. We are CHO_Bulls. Much love, Bulls Nation. We are 3 and 0. Embrace the good times. We’ll talk to you tomorrow. See red be good. Peace. Three and0 [Applause] like the mayor.

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The CHGO Bulls crew break down the Chicago Bulls 128-123 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night. It was a typical Bulls-Hawks barnburner, filled with lots of runs and a frenetic pace of play. Peck and Big Dave discuss Josh Giddey, Tre Jones and Ayo Dosunmu leading an incredibly balanced Bulls offense, which saw eight players in double figures. Plus, signs of life from Isaac Okoro, and some Billy Donovan small-ball strategy. Will Gottlieb joins live from the United Center with intel from the postgame locker room and his thoughts on the game. Big Dave awards the Goon of the Night!

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