The Chicago Bulls are now without Derrick Rose for the rest of the season and the team will have to figure out how to get through once again after the same thing happened last year and now the team travels to take on the Detroit Pistons starting up at 7:30 pm at the Palace at Auburn Hills and the game will also be streaming online with a live stream from the NBA League Pass.
The Bulls come into the matchup second in the central division behind the Indiana Pacers, who have been the best team in the east and they are taking on the 6-8 Pistons on the road. The Bulls are coming off of a loss to the Utah Jazz on the road in overtime on Monday and then the team plays the Cleveland Cavaliers on the road on Saturday. Carlos Boozer and Joakim Noah along with Luol Deng will have to step up with Rose out for the second season in a row and he is done after having his other knee injured and he had surgery on Monday and is done for the year. The Bulls have been playing some fantastic defense, ranking fourth in the league in scoring by points allowed, but the scoring has not been up to snuff and with Rose out, those players will have to step up and Boozer started off with 16 rebounds and 26 points against the Jazz and the Bulls are hoping he can do that again on Wednesday.
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Boozer and Noah have helped the team to rank first in the NBA in rebounding with nearly 50 per contest and the team is ranked 27th in scoring with under 92 per game and the team now will have their second of three straight road games this week and they will have to find a way to pull together after losing Rose for the year. Deng is leading the team in scoring and Boozer is leading in rebounding and the team will need to rely on their bench big time heading into the back stretch of the 2013 schedule. The team was playing well with a five game winning streak, but they followed that up with a four game losing streak and that is currently what the team is on and they have lost a number of close games, losing to the Denver Broncos, Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Clippers and the Utah Jazz and all of those games came on the road.
The team plays the Cleveland Cavaliers on the road to finish off the trip and the schedule doesn't get any easier for the team, as they play the New Orleans Pelicans and the Miami Heat next week and after that they will host back the Detroit Pistons and the Milwaukee Bucks after heading to MSG to play against the New York Knicks.
