"It's just one of those tests we wish we would've had earlier in the season," Bulls star DeMar DeRozan said after the game. "We had so much success so quick, so fast that I knew at some point we were going to have to deal with this type of adversity. You never want it at the end of the road.

Standard stuff you hear all the time from a pro when his team is sucking.

"It's kind of like, going through high school, you getting all A's (?) as a freshman, sophomore. Then as a junior and senior year, you get AP classes (!) and that s--- is extremely hard. But now you've just got to buckle down and kind of put the extra work in. Studying. You've got to take it to that next level if you really want to -- if you want to go to Yale."🤯

Never heard such a drawn-out academic analogy from a professional athlete in my life.