Chicago Bulls’ poor shooting night leads to 118-109 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Chicago Bulls’ up-and-down campaign continued Monday night as they fell to the Milwaukee Bucks, 118-109, at the Fiserv Forum. The Bulls couldn’t get anything going in the first quarter, as they missed 16 of their first 19 attempts and trailed, 35-18.

And though they fought back to gain the lead in the third, the Bucks recovered, brought back their lead to double-figures, and stayed in front until the final buzzer. The loss dropped Chicago to 4-7, while Milwaukee rose to 6-4.

Awful shooting

Nikola Vucevic had 26 points, 12 rebounds, and five assists to lead the Bulls. Zach LaVine added 20 markers, while Coby White scored 16. Patrick Williams came off the bench and put up 13, even as DeMar DeRozan managed just 11 points.

LaVine and DeRozan combined to shoot 8-of-33 as the Bulls shot just 38 percent from the field.

“When you have those off shooting nights, the things that I felt like hurt us were the offensive rebounding — the timely ones they got back — and certainly some of the transition, (we were) not matched up and gave some open looks,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan said.

Spectacular assist

There weren’t many Bulls’ highlights to talk about, but there was one that may end up as the assist of the season. The play began horrendously for the Bulls as they missed three point-blank layups at the rims