Bulls vs Bucks

Here's everything you need to know before the Chicago Bulls take on the Milwaukee Bucks in their 34th game of the 2022-23 regular season.

- Dec. I don’t know anymore, but since they seem compelled to do the opposite of whatever I predict, let’s take the Bucks tonight. Although the Bucks are clearly the more talented team on paper, the Bulls have already won their first matchup this season. In better news, Alex Caruso has been upgraded to questionable to return, pending whether or not he can clear concussion protocols. Gambling odds and information courtesy of FanDuel. They start back up against the Milwaukee Bucks tonight, in what will be one of their final games in 2022.

Bulls may win tonight, they've beat good teams before.

They’ll hang around the play-in race, and their pick protection is too light to have it be a meaningful percentage difference if they tried instead to lose a lot. We’ve seen in the past that AK needs extra time for evaluation for things that other GMs know already (or better: proactively assess). And the Bulls are not good enough to consistently outplay the worse teams. The team has talent, and obviously the front office believes in them because it’s of their own doing, and they will win some and lose some. There is no point analyzing the schedule because any good NBA team can have an off night and lose. That was assessed as ‘thorough’, but in the time since - outside of the flurry of one July day - they’ve been ‘dithering’.

Find out how to watch, live stream or TV channel and game time information for the December 28, 2022 matchup between the Chicago Bulls and the Milwaukee ...

Search for and select the Fubo app, press the Select button, then move to the detailed information screen. Say or type the name of the app you want to install. Select Get or the shopping cart icon to start your download, sign in, and watch. Go to streaming channels and go to Search Channels. - Roku: Press home button on remote. - Away Select Install, and open. Hoping to catch this game live? Select Install, sign in and watch. Home/Away The contest airs at 8:00 PM ET on NBCS-CHI and BSWI.

The Milwaukee Bucks visit the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. We continue our NBA odds series with a Bucks-Bulls prediction and pick.

That being said, the Bulls are well-positioned to cover tonight thanks to the improved play of their wings and their skilled big man, Nikola Vucevic. His ability to stretch the floor is critical to Chicago’s success on offense. Unlike DeRozan, LaVine is lethal from beyond the arc as he makes nearly three three-pointers per game. The Bucks are 17-14-2 against the spread while 52% of their games have gone over the projected point total. With the Bucks missing Khris Middleton and point guard Jrue Holiday, they’ll likely rely on their big men to shoulder the load offensively. With added attention likely to be paid to Giannis, both big men could find themselves with open outside shots that could swing the spread in an instant. The Bulls are 15-17-1 against the spread while 55% of their games have gone under. Milwaukee remains one of the most well-rounded teams in the league as they hold the eighth-highest point differential in the league. Milwaukee had no answer for DeRozan and with Middleton still out, DeMar should again have a big night in store. Giannis is incredibly efficient, shooting 54% from the floor. The biggest case for the Bucks covering tonight is that they roster superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo. Giannis provides the Bucks with an incredibly high floor thanks to his all-around game.

The Bulls made a comeback for the ages and completed it in overtime.

While it is a great victory for the Bulls, they have to find more consistency in their play. He contributed on the defensive end with two steals and two blocks. As a team the Bulls shot 45.7 percent from the field but made just nine three-pointers. This was a win pulled from the jaws of defeat for Chicago. [This victory now puts the Bulls at 7-1 against ](https://twitter.com/KCJHoop/status/1608310645879103488)the teams in the East they couldn’t seem to beat last season (Bucks, [Celtics](https://www.celticsblog.com), Nets, Heat). The Bulls still had work to do with 11 seconds and down two without the ball. Goran Dragic led the bench in scoring with 12 points while Andre Drummond pulled down 13 rebounds in 16 minutes of action. On the Bulls side, DeRozan led the way with 42 points and did so in classic fashion. Up until maybe the final minute, it looked like a clear Bulls loss as the Bucks, without Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday, were dominant physically and totally controlled the glass grabbing a whopping 22 offensive rebounds. But the Bulls staged a furious comeback, thanks to huge shots form Zach LaVine, Patrick Williams, and DeMar DeRozan. It was a basket which would give Chicago the lead for good. This time they rallied from a 15 point fourth quarter deficit to beat the [Milwaukee Bucks](https://www.brewhoop.com) 119-113.

The Bulls trailed by 11 points with 2:18 remaining in the fourth quarter of Wednesday's game against the Bucks — but prevailed in overtime.

Injury report parsing aside, this result now moves the Bulls to 5-1 against the Eastern Conference's top three seeds (2-1 against the Celtics, 1-0 against the Nets and 2-0 against the Bucks). Williams began as Antetokounmpo's primary defensive matchup, and notched a block and a steal in the first five minutes, but the Bulls also threw multiple helpers at him on drives, forcing a handful of pull-up jumpshot attempts outside the paint and uncharacteristic misses at the rim. But he was also 7-for-17 from the field and two of his makes came off of loose balls that bounced to him for easy tip-ins. Then, in the second half and overtime, he really got rolling, scoring 25 points to finish with 45 of those, 22 rebounds and seven assists. They finished 9-for-44 (20.5 percent) from 3-point range and missed more than a few wide open attempts on the back end of Antetokounmpo double-teams — a dynamic that ultimately cost them the game. That made him the worst offender of a woefully wayward shooting night for the Bucks, in general. It was reminiscent to the start of the fourth quarter, when the Bulls missed their first six shots and committed two turnovers in the opening four minutes as the Bucks pulled ahead by 15 points with a 12-0 run. This sequence began with Allen being fouled by Williams, but Allen appeared to embellish that contact and caught DeRozan with an arm bar to the back shortly after. This contest cuts against a rather bedeviling early-season trend of the Bulls struggling to win games during his scoring outbursts; they are now 3-9 in games in which he eclipses 30 points. From there, DeRozan drew free throws that put the Bulls ahead by three points, then answered a Bobby Portis 3-pointer with a midrange jumper that reestablished their advantage. A few empty possessions later, Vučević again nailed a critical 3-pointer to give the Bulls a 111-110 lead. But the Bulls also buckled down multiple times for enormous stops — DeRozan stealing an inbounds pass from Antetokounmpo to spark a game-tying Ayo Dosunmu dunk, then Patrick Williams plus a crowd of defenders forcing an Antetokounmpo travel on the ensuing possession, spring to mind.

With 2 minutes, 18 seconds to play in the fourth quarter of Wednesday's matchup with the Milwaukee Bucks, the Chicago Bulls trailed by 11 points. In that moment ...