Bulls News: Fred Hoiberg Calls Loss to Bucks 'Every Bit as Bad as We Thought'

It may have just been a preseason game, but Chicago Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg was not pleased with his team's 116-82 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night.

"Generally, you come out of the game and you think things aren't as good or bad as they seem," Hoiberg said, according to the Chicago Tribune's K.C. Johnson. "But (Wednesday) night was every bit as bad as we thought. I thought their physicality took us out of anything that we wanted to accomplish. We had the wrong guys taking the ball out of bounds. We had no rhythm on the offensive end. Defense was awful all night. Lot to learn from."

It was an all-around rough night for Chicago, as the Bulls were dominated from nearly start to finish. The team struggled on both ends of the court, although the offensive numbers were more glaring.

Chicago shot 32.4 percent from the field, including just 17.1 percent from three-point range. The rough night was "highlighted" by Jabari Parker (two points) going just 1-of-12 and Zach LaVine—who left the game due to a bruised right quad—faring only slightly better at 3-of-10 for eight points. Neither player made a shot from behind the arc in five combined attempts.

"I played like doo-doo," Parker said, according to Johnson.

Only two Bulls players, Kris Dunn (10) and Bobby Portis (17), reached double figures.

Meanwhile, Chicago was out-rebounded 64-43 while allowing Milwaukee to shoot 49.4 percent from the floor, including 15 fast-break points. Combining those factors with a poor offensive performance made for a long night.

"Our defensive transition was very poor," Hoiberg added, per Johnson. "A lot of that resulted from the fact the ball wasn't going into the hoop. You can't allow them to come down and expose you when the No. 1 thing in your game plan is getting back and slowing them down when the ball isn’t going in the basket. That was the disappointing thing: Our lack of shot-making affected our overall game—defensively, effort, everything."

It was a rough showing for a team that won just 27 games a season ago. Poor shooting nights are bound to happen throughout the course of a season, but as Hoiberg noted, a team can't allow one part of the game to affect the rest and still expect to win.

Hoiberg and the Bulls have three more preseason games to try to iron things out before the regular season tips off on Oct. 18.