The Chicago Bulls cruised past the Knicks at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night, 104-80, and they didn’t even need a spectacular game from returning point guard Derrick Rose. He was relatively quiet in his 21 minutes of action, but he did manage to drop a wrong-footed floater high off the glass.
Watch him just get it past the outstretched arms of a rotating Samuel Dalembert.
The Bulls didn’t even really need their starters — though Pau Gasol added 21 points and 11 boards in 29 minutes — because the new Bench Mob was led by Taj Gibson, who finished with a game-high 22 points on an absurd 10-for-12 shooting performance in 28 minutes of action.
Most people are going to focus on how bad the Knicks looked, and they did look overwhelmed trying to run the triple-post offense in their first game of the season, but the Bulls might just be this good.
More bad news for Knicks fans: they play Cleveland tonight in LeBron James‘ first game back as a member of the revamped Cavs. A back-to-back against arguably the two top teams in the Conference is no picnic regardless of their struggles with the triangle.
(video via NZAUTV Basketball)
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