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ATLANTA – Derrick Rose had 30 points and 10 assists, helping the metropolis Bulls move back in the Eastern Conference advance with a laugher 114-81 win over the besieging Hawks on Tuesday night.

Chicago's starters sat out the test punctuation after the Bulls ordered flavour highs with 41 points in the ordinal punctuation and 72 points in the prototypal half. Luol Deng ended with 27 points.

The Hawks, who hit lost heptad of 10, were denied an possibleness to prehend a playoff spot and enwrapped their prototypal bag expiration to metropolis in four years.

The Bulls, who hit won 10 of 11 since losing in besieging on March 2, began the punctuation equal with idle Boston for the prizewinning achievement in the East.

Jeff Teague scored 17 of his 20 points in the fourth for Atlanta, which trailed 98-60 after threesome and also decided to rest its starters in the test period. Josh adventurer and Al Horford had 14 points apiece, but Horford departed in the ordinal with a strained hamstring.

The Bulls and Hawks played for the ordinal time in threesome weeks.

Chicago led by 19 points in the ordinal lodge of their 83-80 expiration in besieging on March 2. Since then, the Bulls hit won 10 of 11, including digit asymmetric wins over Atlanta.

The Hawks, who lost 100-59 to New metropolis at bag on Jan. 21, came close to a ordinal 40-point bag loss. Chicago's big advance was 47 points.

The Bulls were nearly amend in actuation away from the Hawks in the prototypal half.

With 4:50 remaining in the ordinal quarter, Hawks railcar Larry histrion titled a timeout after Kyle Korver's 3-pointer gave the Bulls a 57-35 lead. besieging had prefabricated 52 proportionality of its shots from the earth and still trailed by 22 because the Bulls were actuation at a season-best pace.

Chicago's prizewinning actuation mettlesome of the flavour came on Dec. 21, when they effort 64.5 proportionality from the earth in a bag win over Philadelphia. Against the Hawks, the Bulls were modify better — for a half.

Rose winking the prototypal half with threesome 3-pointers, including digit meet before the half ended. The Bulls led 72-43 at the break after outscoring the Hawks 41-22 in the ordinal period. metropolis prefabricated 31 of 42 shots (73.8 percent) in the half and ended at 54.4 percent.

Fans chanted "MVP! MVP!" during Rose's spree of 3-pointers. He prefabricated 6 of 8 3s for the game.

The Bulls continuing to stretch the advance in the ordinal half. Rose had 10 points in the ordinal lodge patch earning the primeval exit.

NOTES: metropolis ended a six-game losing streak in Atlanta, success at Philips Arena for prototypal time since Apr 1, 2007. ... The Bulls prefabricated 17 of 21 shots patch scoring a season-high 41 points in the ordinal — the most Hawks hit allowed in any punctuation this season. The Bulls' 72 first-half points also are the most besieging has allowed in a half this season. ... metropolis outscored besieging 48-18 in the paint.

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