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Daeqwon Plowden scored 19 points in his NBA
debut after being called up from the G League’s College Park
Skyhawks.
Dyson Daniels scored 18 points, and Onyeka Okongwu added 14
points, 13 rebounds and seven assists to help the Hawks win for
the third time in four games even though Trae Young sat out due
to a bruised right rib. The three-time All-Star was hurt against
Phoenix on Tuesday night when he scored a season-high 43 points
in a 122-117 win.
Coby White scored 16 points for Chicago. Zach LaVine had 15, and
Nikola Vucevic added 14 points and 16 rebounds.
Takeaways
Hawks: Young, averaging 23.1 points and a league-leading 11.9
assists, was part of a lengthy list of sidelined Hawks. It
included Jalen Johnson (right shoulder inflammation), De’Andre
Hunter (left foot soreness), Larry Nance Jr. (right hand) and
rookie Zaccharie Risacher (left adductor irritation).
Bulls: The Bulls simply couldn't find much of a rhythm and lost
for the fourth time in five games.
Key moment
Wallace scored 18 in the first half as the Hawks built a 61-47
lead.
The 6-foot-3 guard had eight points in a 15-0 run early in the
second quarter that gave Atlanta a 42-27 lead. The Bulls got
within four late in the half before the Hawks scored 13
straight, capped by Okongwu’s alley-oop dunk to make it 59-42
with 1:30 left. Okongwu also put back Bogdan Bogdanovic’s missed
3 in the closing seconds to send Atlanta to the locker room up
by 14.
The Bulls went on a 12-2 run in the third to pull within 72-67
with about five miutes left in the quarter. The Hawks led by
eight going into the fourth and remained in control from there.
Key stat
Both teams struggled from 3-point range, with the Hawks making
13 of 43 and the Bulls going 6 for 27.
Up next
The Hawks visit Boston on Saturday night, and the Bulls host
Charlotte on Friday night.
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