The Chicago Bulls fell to the Charlotte Bobcats 110 to 101 in Charlotte earlier tonight in overtime, again failing to reach the .500 mark.

The Bulls took a 25-16 lead to end the first, but Charlotte stuck with the Bulls from there on out, and tied it up to bring the game to overtime. In overtime, the Bulls were not very competitive, getting outscored 16 to 7.

The Bulls had multiple chances to put away the Bobcats in regulation. Derrick Rose fouled D.J. Augustin on a three pointer, and Augustin made all three free throws to tie up the game. It loked like Rose probably didn’t actually foul Augustin, but Rose still leaned into him a bit on the jump, allowing for a potential foul to be called.

The Bulls then had the ball for the final posession with 19 seconds left, with the game tied 94 to 94. Del Negro made the mistake of not having the ball in Ben Gordon’s hands the entire play, instead giving it to Derrick Rose. The Bull’s ran their play where Ben Gordon sets a screen for Derrick Rose and then pops out to the three point line. Derrick Rose got extremely selfish on this play, and didn’t wait for the Gordon three, making it hard for Gordon to get open. Rose then drove in and had his shot erased by Emeka Okafor.

Derrick Rose was absolutely terrible tonight and was the reason the Bulls lost the game. This was the worst game by any single Bull all season long. Rose finished with 6 points on 3-16 shooting and 7 assists. Rose played an extremely selfish brand of basketball tonight that was detrimental to the team. Rose’s defense was also very poor tonight. He allowed D.J. Augustin to get anything he wanted. Augustin finished with 29 points and 7 assists.

Ben Gordon was good tonight, scoring 25 points and dishing out 5 assists. Gordon’s shooting was a little off tongiht, but he made up to it by drawing fouls and getting to the line. Gordon’s defense on Felton was so-so. He held Felton to a pretty low scoring efficiency, but Felton is a scrub player who usually scores at a very detrimental efficiency, and that was not the case tonight. Felton finished with 21 points on 7-17 shooting.

Tyrus Thomas put together his second strong game. Thomas finished with 22 points, 9 rebounds, and 2 blocks. Thomas played smart basketball, dunked the ball, blocked some shots, and made a few of his jumpshots. This is what is so difficult about Thomas, sometimes he will look like he doesn’t even belong in the league, but other nights he will look like an allstar level player. It’s hard for a team to give up on a guy so young who shows flashes like this. Hopefully Thomas can keep this up.

Luol Deng was solid for the Bulls, scoring 15 points on 7-8 shooting. Gooden had 14 points for the Bulls, and Joakim Noah had 7 points and 6 rebounds in 15 minutes of action.

Emeka Okafor had 20 points, 13 rebounds, 3 steals, and 4 blocks as he dominated our big’s tonight.

With the loss, the Bulls fall to 11-13 on the season. The Bulls play the Clippers tomorrow night.

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Tags: abominable, Ben Gordon, Charlotte Bobcats, Chicago Bulls, D.J. Augustin, Derrick Rose, Emeka Okafor, Joakim Noah, Luol Deng, Raymond Felton, Tyrus Thomas, Vinny Del Negro

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