Chicago Bulls Complete 2016-17 Season Preview

October 13th, 2016 by Kelly Scaletta Leave a reply »

It was an early-season game between the Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons, a week before Christmas. The Bulls were still hoping to make a deep playoff run; the Pistons would be satisfied with a run at the playoffs. The game was tight.

Reggie Jackson hit Andre Drummond for a shot at the rim with 19 seconds left to go and tied it up. It was Derrick Rose time, the sort of thing Bulls fans had seen before and were expecting to see again.

Rose was going to hit the game-winner.

But it didn’t happen.

Nor, as he’d done in the past, did he take over in the first OT, or the second or third or even fourth. He tallied 10 points on 12 shots and turned the ball over twice. The Bulls lost the game, and as things turned out, that was the difference between the Pistons getting the No. 8 seed over Chicago when the season ended.

In both a metaphorical and literal sense, it was the day the Rose Era died.

    

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