10 observations: Jalen Brunson lifts Knicks past Bulls

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The Chicago Bulls fell to the New York Knicks 128-117 on Tuesday night at the United Center as Jalen Brunson was spectacular with 45 points and eight assists.

Here are 10 observations:

—The Bulls have had lower moments this season. The listless loss to the Boston Celtics in November which both Zach LaVine and DeMar DeRozan left with injuries and dropped them to 5-14 comes to mind. But as far as individual sequences go, nothing can top the ridiculousness that occurred in the first minute of the second quarter.

Andre Drummond picked Bojan Bogdanovic clean up top, starting a 3-on-0 fast break. On it, Torrey Craig threw the ball off the backboard in an apparent alley-oop to himself. Thinking the pass was to reward him for his defensive effort, Drummond tried to dunk it, going over Craig’s back and sending him crashing to the floor. Both missed the dunk, which left Coby White, also on the fast break, throwing his hands up in frustration and infuriating Billy Donovan on the sideline.

Donovan immediately called timeout to address the play.

“We did some really dumb stuff—everybody, not just T Craig,” Coby White said. “We’re not going to single him out. We’re a team.”

Making the sequence even worse, Drummond then went to the other end and badly rolled his left ankle on Isaiah Hartenstein’s foot. Drummond writhed on the floor in pain, left immediately for the locker room in a wheelchair and didn’t return.

Afterward, Donovan said Drummond, who left the arena in a walking boot, has swelling in the ankle. As for Craig’s decision, Donovan didn’t hold back.

“To me it was just really disappointing,” Donovan said. “I’m not going to get into what I said. But down by 10, there was a lot of self-induced things that I think we contributed to. Not only that play but other plays that maybe weren’t as loud as that. But that play was disappointing to me.

“I don’t care who he was throwing the ball to. We don’t need to be doing that. I’m not going to get into everything I said on the…

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