Bucks hold Bulls to 70 points, win.

1/6/06 at the Bradley Center

Bucks 84, Chicago 70

Well, after giving up 60 points to LeBron James last game against the Cavaliers, the Bucks shut down the ENTIRE Chicago Bulls team, and it resulted to a 84-70 win.

The Bulls jumped out to an early 27-20 lead, as Luol Deng scored 10 points in the first quarter, but the Bucks rallied back to lead at half, 50-47. But in the second half, the Bulls were lost in time...like they were playing in the 1930s. The Bucks held Chicago to just 23 points in the 2nd half, and the Bucks ran away with this one, even though they only scored 34 points in the second half.

Despite both teams sending the NBA back 65 years with a boring second half, the Bucks had some stellar performance from their players.

Michael Redd only scored 18 points, but grabbed eight rebounds, while Hugh Fitzpatrick, despite scoring 11 points, had a double-double, grabbing 11 rebounds. He also handed out 4 assists. But the big surprise in tonight's game was backup center Dan Gadzuric, who did an outstanding job while Jamaal Magloire was in foul trouble. Danny G had 16 points and 8 rebounds tonight, his best performance of the season.

Despite Luol Deng being the game's leading scorer with 19 points, the Bulls played like they were playing basketball on ice, making less than 33% of their field goals, being outrebounded 50-40 and outassisted, 20-10.

Well, the good news: the Bucks played much better, allowing just a season low 70 points to a decent team. The bad news is that they must face LeBron James again as the Bucks and Cavaliers fight it out at Quicken Loans Arena January 7.

Bucks are 17-13 this season...