The Bulls nearly erased a 17-point fourth-quarter deficit against the Grizzlies on Saturday, but in the end fell 116-110.
scored in the 30s for the tenth straight contest, though he did have his eight-game streak of scoring 35 or more points on 50 percent or better shooting snapped by tallying 31 on an uncharacteristic 10-for-29 . In the fourth quarter, he came alive to score 13 points, including a flurry of midrange pull-ups during the run that made it a competitive game.
“We were just trying to get something downhill to try to get a quick score, and from there, if it's a one-point game, we still have one timeout, maybe we can press or if they call timeout, we can try to maybe get a trap and a quick steal or something if that's possible. If not, they make two free throws or one free throw, you call timeout it's still a one-possession game.
“We could not secure rebounds when we forced misses,” Donovan opined. “It seemed like there was four straight possessions where we got them to miss and we couldn't come down and secure rebounds.
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