Don’t you protect yourself in the NBA? This game ended 150-152!

The NBA has never had so much talent in its history, with the approval of rules that favor offense and officiating decisions that make defense difficult, but critics of the NBA will say more than ever that the world’s best league can’t protect itself from last night’s scoring explosion: the Chicago Bulls, coached from his office by a former Barça player. Arturas Carnisovas They defeated the Atlanta Hawks in a scandalous 150-152.

The Bulls and Hawks finished the game with their highest points of the season, and Chicago set a team scoring record for the season. The game, which Illinois won by a score of 73-83 at halftime, was the eighth time in NBA history that both contenders had scored 150 points, and the third time in the past 35 seasons that this has happened, according to data. ESPN.

The game with the highest score in history in the stipulated 48 minutes continues. 162-158 The Warriors defeated the Nuggets in 1990.

jalen johnsonOne of the revelations of this season, Trae Young was the game’s leading scorer with 36 points and 35 points, but more shocking was the fact that the Bulls had up to nine players in double-digit scoring: Matas Bouzelis (28 points), Koby Hua Ito (21 points), Josh Guidi (19 points), Kevin Huerter (16 points), Isaac Okoro (14 points), Nikola Vucevic (13 points), Ayodosunmu (13), Tre Jones (11) and Zach Collins (10).

Johnson wasn’t aware of his score, but said of the Hawks’ even more unacceptable defense:

“It’s hard to win a game if you allow 80 points in the first half. It’s embarrassing in a way. I hope we can reduce what we’re doing a little bit,” lamented the star, who hit a 3-point shot with six seconds left to cut the Hawks to a one-point lead (150-151).

Atlanta Hawks vs Chicago Bulls

Eighth game in history in which both teams scored 150 points.

Buzelis, destructive 7-8 with triplethen made one of two free throws, but Young missed the shot that could have tied the game.

The Bulls already had a high-scoring game in November, when they lost 150-147 on Jazz Court. Chicago has the sixth-worst defense in the NBA with a defensive rating of 117.7, and the Hawks are 18th with a defensive rating of 115.5.

Neither team is particularly outstanding offensively, as Atlanta is 12th best in offense at 114.8 and the Bulls are 16th at 114. Do you think you can’t protect yourself in the NBA?