Luol Deng scored 27 points on 13-of-18 shooting and the Bulls handed the Detroit Pistons their 13th consecutive loss, 120-87 on Monday night.Detroit matched its longest skid since losing 13 straight to end the 1993-94 season.After three consecutive losses, the Bulls rebounded with a lopsided win against last-place Minnesota on Saturday, and then took advantage of a depleted Pistons team playing again without Tayshaun Prince.Derrick Rose finished with 22 points on 11-of-13 shooting for the Bulls, who shot 57.1 percent overall, including 70.6 percent in the third quarter. The Bulls had a season-high in points and their biggest margin of victory. Rookie Jonas Jerebko had 15 points and nine rebounds and Richard Hamilton added 17 points for the Pistons, who last won on Dec. 12, against Golden State.One game after Pistons coach John Kuester criticized his team’s intensity after a home blowout loss to Philadelphia, he saw his team allow a season-high in points.Hinrich gave the Bulls an 18-17 lead on a 3-pointer and Deng scored six consecutive points to put them up 24-19. The Bulls increased the lead to 61-47 on Deng’s 3-pointer with 7.4 seconds left in the second quarter.Finally, the Bulls were on the other end of a blowout.Deng finished with 17 points in the first half on 8-of-13 shooting. As a team, the Bulls shot 55.1 percent in the half.But somehow Detroit’s defense managed to get worse in the third quarter.John Salmons increased the Bulls lead to 72-52 with a 3 and made he another uncontested 3 with 7:48 left in the third to put the Bulls up 77-54 and forcing Kuester to call a timeout.They increased the lead to 34 late in the third quarter by scoring 11 consecutive points. Rose’s jumper put the Pistons down 96-62 with 2:08 left in the quarter.Prince, who has missed 26 games with a back injury, missed the game with a sore left knee after injuring it against the 76ers on Saturday. Former Bulls guard Ben Gordon played seven minutes and didn’t score.
Former Bulls Center Luc Longley, who was part of part of three championships from 1996 to 1998, watched the game courtside. … Pistons G Rodney Stuckey, who was a game-time decision with a sore right knee, played 31 minutes and finished with 11 points. … Rose had nine assists.
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