The Chicago Bulls are facing a win-or-go-home situation Saturday night with the Cleveland Cavaliers coming to town, and standout center Pau Gasol has some thoughts on how his team spiraled out of control and into such a tenuous position.
Not only did Gasol say the Bulls have played without a "sense of urgency," according to ESPN.com's Nick Friedell, but he added the team showed a "a lack of awareness" and "a lack of maturity" as it put its seven-year postseason qualification streak on the line:
There's been times where we dropped games, lost games, that we should never have lost, especially at home against certain teams. Those are the times that guys don't realize how big of a price that you can pay at the end of the year and how much of a different position you're going to be [in] by those games in November, December, January. 'Ah, there's still 40 games to play, there's still 50 games to play.' No, those games are just as meaningful as the ones we've been playing for the last week or two where our life has been on the line.
Gasol has been on a pseudo-motivational-speaking tour of late, as he's repeat ...
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Pau Gasol Comments on Bulls’ Struggles, Lack of Maturity and More
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