{"id":512598,"date":"2022-11-19T20:26:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T17:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/you-play-a-guy-like-me\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T20:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T17:26:21","slug":"you-play-a-guy-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/you-play-a-guy-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;You play a guy like me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2535eaef20b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2535eaef20b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/you-play-a-guy-like-me\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98You_play_a_guy_like_me%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;You play a guy like me&#8217;&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1>&#8220;&#8216;You play a guy like me'&#8221;<\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Zach LaVine is peeved he was benched down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls suffered a painful 108-107 loss to the Magic on Friday night, and LaVine was benched for the final 3:43 in favor of Ayo Dosunmu. He had just four points, shooting 1-14 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to do a better job at the beginning of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> to make my shots, but you play a guy like me down the stretch,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/35057292\/late-benching-bugs-bulls-zach-lavine-play-guy-me\">LaVine said after the game<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s what I do. Do I like the decision? No. Do I have to live with it? Yeah. Be ready to put my shoes on and play the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaVine, who signed a max extension worth $215 million over five years with the Bulls this offseason, directed reporters with questions about the benching to ask head coach Billy Donovan about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust ask him what his decision was, what made him think that way,\u201d LaVine said. \u201cObviously, he wanted to go with some other guys out there, I wasn\u2019t having the best night shooting, but it\u2019s a tough one.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1439888946.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Billy Donovan benched Zach LaVine for the final 3:43 of the Bulls' loss to the Magic on Friday night.\" class=\"wp-image-24720092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1439888946.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1439888946.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Billy Donovan benched Zach LaVine for the final 3:43 of the Bulls\u2019 loss to the Magic on Friday night.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For his part, Donovan explained his rationale was that he believed the rotation was playing well with LaVine out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like my job, my responsibility in those moments is to try to make the best decisions for the team,\u201d Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. \u201cAnd I thought that was the best decision at the time. To me, I don\u2019t look at it as anything else but the one-off game where this is what was going on. I know he wanted to be out there. There\u2019s probably not very many games in his career where [LaVine] hasn\u2019t been out there in those moments, but that group was playing well and it gave us a chance.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The Bulls suffered a painful 108-107 loss to the Magic on Friday night, and LaVine was benched for the final 3:43 in favor of Ayo Dosunmu. He had just four points, shooting 1-14 from the field. \u201cI got to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":512599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1439888946.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[135848,91726,30779,91727],"class_list":["post-512598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-19-22","tag-billy-donovan","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-zach-lavine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}