The Bulls have held teams under 90 points in seven straight games and 18 of its last 22. Unsurprisingly, Chicago is 6-1 and 18-4 in that span.

"A good team finds different ways to win," Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. "Sometimes you have to be able win to with a low pace. It was a grind-it-out game. Both teams were playing good defense, so you're going deep into the clock. Sometimes you can score more and you have to win that way also.

"But I think the big thing is when you're not going well offensively, you have to be able to count on your defense and your rebounding. I thought the fact we always keep our turnovers down, that was big for us as well."

"We think of ourselves as a grimy team that fights through everything," Derrick Rose said. "So that's how we have to play."