Billy Donovan couldn’t believe his eyes.

It was too easy. Midway through the second quarter of the Chicago Bulls’ double-overtime loss Sunday in Utah, Jazz guard Isaiah Collier curled over a screen at the top of the key. Bulls forward Julian Phillips had ducked under the initial screen, emerging on the other side already low in his defensive stance.

What came next wasn’t fancy or complex.

Guard Keyonte George passed the ball to Collier, then moved across the arc to accept a dribble hand-off. Phillips picked him up on the switch. George received the ball, planted his right foot and torched past Phillips with a single dribble. He needed only one more touch before he entered the paint unencumbered, waltzing past three scrambling defenders who were a step too late in helping before he rol

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