The Bulls kept Carlos Boozer on the bench for the final 14 minutes of their loss to the Nets on Wednesday night.

"You got to talk to Thibs about that," Boozer said after the game when asked about the benching. "That was a coaching decision."

Tom Thibodeau said that Boozer's absence in the final quarter had a lot to do with matchups.

"The big thing was we were behind big and they were zoning," Thibodeau said. "And so the group that went in, playing Luol [Deng] at the 4, gave us another perimeter player. So it was more effective for us against the zone. So that's why we did it. And when that group cut the lead down and now we were in position, they tied the game up so we just were going to finish with the group that was going well."

Despite the explanation, some players questioned the decision to leave Boozer on the bench.

"Yeah, we were surprised," Derrick Rose said. "But we're not going to try to coach. We're going to try to go out there and do our jobs and that's to play. We're just going to leave all the subbing and everything up to [Thibodeau]."