Finally, the positives outweighed the negatives for the Bulls.

Ron Mercer's head cold and Eddie Robinson's injured big left toe left them with only 10 players Saturday night at Oakland Arena, but that fact didn't slow others.

Brad Miller turned in a dominant first half, scoring 17 of his team-high 28 points. Fred Hoiberg definitively found his shooting stroke, going 7-for-10 for a season-high 18 points. Marcus Fizer resembled a lottery pick, scoring eight points in eight first-half minutes and finishing with 10.

Even rookies Tyson Chandler and Eddy Curry sneaked in decent first-half minutes.

And still they lost. Jason Richardson's career-high 23 points led Golden State to a 93-88 victory before a crowd of 13,076, sending the Bulls to their seventh straight loss and 22nd in a row on the road to Western Conference teams.

The Bulls trailed 86-80 when Danny Fortson drew his sixth foul by hammering Charles Oakley with 1 minute 41 seconds remaining. The two had tangled earlier, with Oakley drawing a technical foul, and this time Fortson drew the technical.

But after Hoiberg hit the technical free throw, Oakley merely split his free throws. Antawn Jamison then scored to give the Warriors a six-point lead.

Trenton Hassell's miss in heavy traffic turned the game into a free-throw contest for Golden State.