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The Warriors won a strange, ugly, sloppy game against the Chicago Bulls final score 123 to 92.

And my biggest takeaway from it was this was just kind of a survive and advance type of game

where Chicago was clearly limited without Jimmy Butler or without Dwayne Wade

and have imperfect players in their stead.

They started Jerry and Grant and Michael Carter Williams.

Rajan Rondo actually outplayed both of them.

And the Bulls just didn't have the horsepower to stick with

the Warriors who got the comfortable win, despite struggling a fair amount in the first half.

They looked, you know, they had some nice moments where they looked good, and also Chicago,

what, four for 24 from three, which I think was one of the big dynamics of this game, but the

Bulls are the league's

worst three-point shooting team, both in terms of three-point attempt rate. So they take the

fewest threes relative to the rest of their shots, but that makes sense because they're also

the league's worst three-point shooting team. So it isn't a surprise that they struggled in that

way, but 16.7 percent, four of 24 is bad for anybody. So the Warriors survived that,

but thinking of it as the aversion of the negative does obfuscate a little bit of the positive

that was there, and there certainly was a fair amount of positive in this game. One of the bigger ones

was Javille McGee. McGee offensively has been

wonderful with the starters throughout the season, but particularly the configurations where he's

out there with more of the starters because Green and Curry are great at feeding him. Durant has

gotten a little better. Clay Thompson has gotten a lot better, but struggled a couple times today. And McGee gives them a boost on that end. He is still imperfect defensively,

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