Given the Bulls' inconsistency this season, there is still some hope for the Celtics, but the first step toward getting back into the series is entering Game 3 with a better mindset than they left Game 2 with.
The Chicago Bulls also released a statement on Saturday, sending its condolences to Thomas and his family. Bobby Portis was the star of the show in that regard, scoring 19 points and hauling down nine rebounds as he came into the game off of the bench.
"You can say whatever to him, but I think our actions really let him know that we care for him", Bradley said. This is a great defensive team. "When we played against Boston back in the day, he knew all the plays".
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Tuesday night, Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler rode on the first bus.
"[Rondo] was the key early in the game", Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said. "That rubs off on all the other guys".
Rondo was too fast, too smart, too manipulative with his eyes, like the time he set up Butler for a transition triple in the third quarter.
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Thomas, who top-scored for the Celtics with 33 points on 10-of-18 shooting from the floor, did not talk to the media after the game but team mate Avery Bradley said the players were proud of their grieving guard. "They gave up, '" he said. "I try to lock in and do what I can for my team". He's become the type of go-to scorer the Bulls have enjoyed in Michael Jordan and Derrick Rose, an elite finisher. We haven't done that all season, but this is the right time to do it. He grabbed eight rebounds in 31 minutes, and that led the team.
Jae Crowder scored 16 points as five Celtics reached double figures.
The Boston Celtics enter this postseason with very high expectations.
Jimmy Butler saw to it that Celtics' talisman Isaiah Thomas, who will fly to Washington to attend his sister's funeral on Wednesday, was not able to get going offensively.
"He's trying his best to compartmentalize when he's here to work on what he needs to work on, but I'm sure that's hard", Stevens said. "I tried to stay aggressive last game, but I got myself into some foul trouble".
The Celtics studied more than their normal amount of film in an effort to keep the Bulls from cleaning the offensive glass. He played some of his best basketball in years over the second half of the season and has only improved during the two playoff games.
The Bulls stomped the Boston Celtics, 111-97 on Tuesday night, and the game ended with Boston's fans booing the hometown team.
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