While Durant tries to follow in Mitchell's footsteps, Bulls use balance to end Brooklyn's win streak. McGrawDHSports chicagobulls
The NBA world couldn't help but notice when Cleveland's Donovan Mitchell became the seventh player to score at least 70 points in a game Monday, incorrect calls or not.
The Bulls are now 6-1 against the top three teams in the East -- Boston, Milwaukee and Brooklyn -- but just 17-21 overall. "When he scored 28 , we literally came into the locker room and said, 'We're contesting it.' So we just wanted to keep scrambling to try to take away the other guys from getting open shots and keep competing."
In the third quarter, Donovan started sending double-teams at Durant. It slowed him down for a while, but after Williams committed a 3-shot foul with 1.6 seconds left in the quarter, Durant was able to set his point total at 39. The Bulls also stuck with a small, mobile lineup with Derrick Jones Jr. serving as backup center instead of former Net Andre Drummond.
The Bulls have been waiting for Williams to turn a corner for a couple years now, and he certainly made a positive step in this game. He was asked to guard Durant constantly -- both were on the floor 38 minutes -- and the open shots started falling.
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