Holiday joins Bulls' record book twice with 3-point shooting
Justin Holiday established two franchise records with his 3-point shooting Monday.
He set a Bulls' mark by hitting a 3-pointer in 32 straight games, breaking Kirk Hinrich's streak of 31, set in 2004.
Holiday's streak includes the final 11 games of last season. The third-longest streak in Bulls history is 29, done by Holiday last year and John Salmons in 2009.
Holiday also tied a Bulls' record by hitting at least three baskets from 3-point range for the sixth straight game, equaling marks set by Craig Hodges and Lauri Markkanen.
"I just go out there to play my game, shoot the ball," Holiday said after Monday's loss to San Antonio. "It's been dropping for me right now. Hopefully it drops for me forever. I'm going to keep doing what I do."
Holiday is shooting 41.1 percent from 3-point range this season. The past six games he's made 26 of 54 attempts, nearly 50 percent. He ranks fifth in the league in 3-pointers made per game with 3.2.
"Justin is playing at such a high level on both ends," Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said Tuesday at the Advocate Center. "He gives you so much as far as stability, and you need that when you're going through struggles like we are and you have as many young players as we do."
Arcidiacono ends slump:
Ryan Arcidiacono has been among the NBA leaders in 3-point percentage, but hit a rough patch last weekend, going a combined 1-for-8 against Miami and Minnesota.
He snapped out of it in a big way Monday, scoring a career-high 22 points and hitting 4 of 6 shots from long range, including a pair of 3s in the final two minutes that trimmed the deficit to 1.
"I know I hadn't been shooting it well these last couple of games," Arcidiacono said. "But I don't judge myself on shooting the ball. I try to do all the little things for our team. It was in the back of my mind, to get out of the little lull that I was in, but I just tried to stay aggressive and found the opportunity to catch and shoot some."
Arcidiacono is at 44.3 percent from 3-point range, still a good number. He was 16th in the league as of early Tuesday.
Pop's old school:
San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich was longing for old-school NBA basketball before Monday's game at the United Center.
Popovich complained about how the league relies so much on 3-point shooting these days.
"There's no basketball anymore, there's no beauty in it," he said. "It's pretty boring. But it is what it is and you've got to work with it."
Popovich was asked what he considers beautiful basketball.
"That'll show my age too much," he joked. "I'm a Bill Bradley, New York Knicks kind of guy, with that group. Walt Frazier, (Dave) DeBusschere and the boys. I thought that was pretty good looking."