Either the Chicago Bulls are engineering the greatest fake-it-until-you-make it con in recent NBA history, or everyone's preseason projections were wrong.
With their third consecutive offensive onslaught, Jimmy Butler and a revamped Bulls roster continued scoring in a volume and manner that can only be described as shocking. They shredded the Brooklyn Nets (and the nylon ones) on Monday, notching a 118-88 win.
Jimmy Butler erupted early, hitting a pair of threes in the game's opening minutes. He finished with a game-high 22, and his scoring surge was part of a team-wide 7-of-10 start that ballooned into a 38-20 first-quarter advantage.
Chicago cruised from there, finding little resistance in a Nets club suffering from a cruel contrast in perimeter accuracy. Brooklyn hit an abysmal 5-of-31 from long range and shot 34.4 percent overall. The Bulls posted marks of 50.6 percent from the field and 40.7 percent from deep.
They even knocked in 17 of 18 foul shots, though they could have missed them all and still won by double figures.
It wasn't just that the threes were falling. Chicago's ...
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