The point guard Coby White was in charge of contributing 21 points, 10 rebounds and five assists that left him at the forefront of the attack of the Chicago Bulls who beat the Portland Trail Blazers 108-111 at home.
Along with White, 20, six other Bulls players, including the team’s other four starters, also had double digits.
Power forward Otto Porter Jr. also finished as a key player for the Bulls, scoring 19 points, 13 rebounds -11 defensively – and gave one assists.
The great teamwork, with guard Zach LaVine reaching 18 points, has allowed the Bulls to reach an aggregate mark of 4-4 and 3-1 in games played outside their United Center field, despite have four players still out due to the Covid-19 quarantine.
Porter Jr., with 3:05 minutes to go, scored the basket that gave the Bulls a partial 100-104 advantage and White a minute later made it 100-106 that would be the decisive one.
The point guard Damian Lillard, who contributed 24 points, tried, with shots from the personnel line, to look for the team’s comeback and although he approached the Trail Blazers with partial sets of 105-106 and 108-19 in the end he could not see it materialize.
LaVine with 10 seconds to play scored the triple from 105-109, to which Lillard responded with another triple (108-109), but White would seal the victory from the personnel line by scoring two personnel shots and less than five seconds to go. .
Veteran power forward Carmelo Anthony (12 points and four rebounds), with 2.7 seconds left, tried the triple in search of a tie for the Trail Blazers, but failed and the Portland team (3-4) suffered the second loss. consecutive and the second time he lost in his field.
The guard JCMcCollum finished the game with 26 points as leader of the Trail Blazers, while the Bosnian center Jusuf Nurkic achieved a double-double of 12 points, 11 rebounds and six assists that put him in front of the Portland team’s inside game.
