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Highlights: Short-handed Bulls can't pull off upset

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Wednesday they've won in Milwaukee last night they traveled to Brooklyn to take on Jays these next. But the Bulls were badly shorthanded. Struck -- Eric. Wasn't quick team he would fly back to Chicago to have his right elbow reexamine Carlos Boozer missed his second straight game with a sore right hamstring. And joking no outs with. Re -- planner fresh ideas -- the Bulls taking on the -- with -- -- nine players dressing for the first game ever in Brooklyn. Struggling defensively early on -- Gerald Wallace the driving layup. -- thirty seconds left in the quarter Brook Lopez. Wide open for the easy -- that scored eighteen in the paint in the opening quarter vilified him. Second quarter -- profitable -- lined up off the pick and roll the Brooklyn native Taj Gibson if they don't. That brought pulled within two. Than a minute later the Phillies starter Nate Robinson. Finds -- beginning Butler. Tied it up at 35 there 55 seconds left nice passing by the hole leads the open three ball. Blue ball from the bordering big beautiful their personally Bulls led by lauded at San. You know the third quarter we go in more from Gibson. Watch out for this one. Taj gets in and post your eyes right there Gerald Wallace the big time slam -- gets sixteen points played the entire 48 later in the third Butler. Continuing his strong play tough little runner. Less than two minutes left in the quarter to Marco Belinelli. Step back jumper at thirteen off the bench Bulls led by more going into the final quarter early in the fourth. That's taken the lead here but Gibson find Butler baseline in the dog. That gives the Bulls lead right back the Mets bench would take over at that Marchand dropped the pull up jumper. Nets and brought and then -- -- the personnel simply caught up with the -- halfway through the fourth Andray Blatche. -- Gibson in the post for the layup. Then four minutes left he doesn't again he's -- this time break bucket he would want to he had eleven in the final quarter. -- were simply undermanned at the end they fall 93 to 89 in Brooklyn. So just the bulls' third loss of their last eleven games remember -- the January Alou all day missed. Five games with a hamstring injury. Well he had to play all the four seconds of this game because they were so short handed meanwhile. Taj Gibson becomes the first bowl player. Since 2007. To play all 48 minutes of the game the last got to do that when Ben Wallace. No time to rest another game tonight in Atlanta.

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  1. Gerald Wallace0:32, 1:18
  2. Andray Blatche1:56
  3. Ben Wallace2:37
  4. Nate Robinson0:55
  5. Carlos Boozer0:17
  6. Taj Gibson0:49, 2:28
  7. Brook Lopez0:37
  8. Marco Belinelli1:30
Sat, 2 Feb 2013|

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