NBA: Josh Giddey dished out a season-high 13 assists but the Chicago Bulls collapsed in the fourth quarter in a 135-119 home loss to the Anthony Edwards-led Minnesota Timberwolves.
Josh Giddey flirted with a triple-double in a bounce-back performance and Zach LaVine erupted late as the Chicago Bulls downed the Detroit Pistons 122-112 on Tuesday .
Average of 9 LIVE Regular Season games per week plus the best of the NBA Playoffs, including every game of the NBA Conference Finals & NBA Finals LIVE on ESPN, available via Kayo New to Kayo?Giddey recorded his third double-double for Chicago, racking up 11 points on 5-of-10 shooting with one triple, eight rebounds and 10 assists as a +13 plus/minus — the third-best of any player — in 29 minutes.
The Aussie also played some solid defence on Pistons star Cade Cunningham, who still led Detroit with 23 points and 10 assists. It was Giddey’s teammate, LaVine, who really stole the show though. LaVine was scorching hot in the fourth quarter with six 3-pointers for 18 points to carry the Bulls to the victory down the stretch.
LaVine and Coby White dropped 25 points apiece and Nikola Vucevic led all scorers with 29 to go with 12 rebounds and two blocks.It came after a couple of rough performances for Giddey in Chicago’s blowout losses to Houston and Cleveland where the Aussie was benched through longer stretches.after the Cleveland loss, conceding: “I wouldn’t have played myself if I was Billy. No minutes tonight. I was bad on both sides of the ball.
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