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Over the next 2:21:
- Ross hits a 3
- PPat gets blocked,
- DeMar misses a 21 footer
- Ross misses a 3 pointer
- DeMar misses a 11 footer (fuck he had a horrid shooting night)
From 5:09 on, still down 16, DeMar doesn't take another shot until 0:30, and they're FTs
But he's certainly involved in facilitating on offense, and is part of the team defense that brings the team to down only 5, with 1:19 to go.
Why was he in? That lineup, in a team game, brought the team back to a serious fighting chance.
The failure to come back further from there had nothing to do with DeMar's individual play. It went:
- Ross's 3 pt foul on Dunleavy with the clock running out
- Lowry misses 25 footer
- Lowry misses 9 footer
- Amir steals from Gasol on D end
- Amir gets blocked by Gasol
Now there's 30 seconds left and their down 7. DeMar draws a foul from Gasol, sinks his 2 FTs to bring it to a 5 pt game again. From there, it's the foul game, with Lowry missing 1 of 2, and Ross missing 2 3 pointers and Johnson missing another 3 pointer.
In what sense did DeMar hurt them in the 4th (that lineup got it to 5 twice), and where in there would JV have helped more? None of the Bulls bigs had scored the entire time, and the team came back almost all the way.
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