ATLANTA (AP)
Kyle Korver hardly cared that
Atlanta beat a
Chicago Bulls team missing
Jimmy Butler and
Derrick Rose.
Korver just wanted the
Hawks to finally get a win.
"We didn't shoot the ball particularly well," he said. "We weren't super crisp, but I thought our focus, especially on defense, was really great."
Jeff Teague scored 19 points,
Al Horford added 18 and Atlanta snapped a three-game losing streak with a 103-88 victory over the short-handed Bulls on Friday night.
Paul Millsap had 12 points and 13 rebounds for the Hawks, who ended a four-game home skid - their longest since
April 2007.
Chicago, which had won three straight, struggled with
Butler,
Rose and
Nikola Mirotic sidelined by injuries. A sore right hamstring kept Rose out for the second straight game.
Doug McDermott finished with 20 points and
Paul Gasol had 16 points and 17 rebounds for the Bulls.
Gasol's jumper cut the deficit to eight in the last minute of the third quarter, but the Bulls couldn't get any closer.
"We've got to hold down the fort 'til everybody comes back," forward
Taj Gibson said. "But we've got a shot."
Horford dunked on Teague's alley-oop pass and followed with a
3-pointer to make it 95-80 with 3:20 remaining.
The Hawks are
1-3 on a five-game homestand.
Miami beat Atlanta without stars
Dwyane Wade and
Chris Bosh, and
Milwaukee ended a six-game road losing streak by knocking off the Hawks in double overtime.
Atlanta also was outmatched by
NBA champion Golden State on Monday despite taking a brief lead early in the fourth quarter.
"It hasn't gone the way we wanted," Horford said. "Being able to come out here tonight and get a win is big for us."
Butler, an All-Star, has been out since Feb. 5 with a sprained left knee.
Mirotic is recovering from appendicitis, and
Joakim Noah, Chicago's second-leading rebounder, is sidelined with a sore shoulder.
Bulls coach
Fred Hoiberg was upset with his team allowing 27 points off 21 turnovers.
"That's all we've talked about for the last two days is taking care of the basketball," Hoiberg said. "You don't give yourself a chance to win when you have careless turnovers like that."
The Hawks hit just one of their first 18 attempts from beyond the arc before
Tim Hardaway Jr. made it 51-42 in the last minute of the second. They finished 7 for 34 as
Kent Bazemore and Korver combined to go 2 for 14.
Bazemore scored 17 points.
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- published: 27 Feb 2016
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