Bulls Are the Ones Left Standing After Triple Overtime Against Nets Jim Young/Reuters The Bulls' Nate Robinson driving past the Nets' Andray Blatche, left, and Reggie Evans. Robinson had 34 points. CHICAGO - There was no counting out the Nets or stamping out the Chicago Bulls, and so a Game 4 matinee went round and round into the early dusk, drama building with each successive overtime, emotion swinging with each last-second shot. There was once a 14-point Nets lead with less than four minutes in regulation, but that became an afterthought after the Bulls fought back to send it to overtime, appeared to win it with a shot by Nate Robinson with 1.7 seconds left, and then lost that lead, too, after Joe Johnson tied the score at the buzzer. And thus an epic steadily built, neither team willing to surrender under the strain of 63 minutes of bruising and battering basketball in which five players fouled out. Ultimately, the Bulls prevailed in triple overtime, 142-134, to take a commanding 3-1 lead in the series. Robinson finished with 34 points - 29 of them coming after the third quarter - and Kirk Hinrich added 18 points and 14 assists. Deron Williams had 32 points and 10 assists for the Nets. Johnson hit a game-tying runner at the buzzer of the first overtime, stunning a sold-out and raucous United Center crowd, which thought they had the game wrapped up when Robinson hit a bank shot to give the Bulls a 121-119 lead. This came after Robinson scored 23 points in the fourth quarter to almost single-handedly lead the Bulls back from a 14-point deficit with 3 minutes 50 seconds remaining. The Nets seemed in complete control with a strong second-half performance, responding after falling behind in the second quarter to take a lead in the third and expand it to double digits in the fourth. They had finally found their offensive game after shooting just 35 percent in Games 2 and 3, both losses. The Nets shot 57.1 percent from the field in regulation Game 4. But the fourth quarter finished with the Bulls steaming hot. Chicago finished the final 2:53 seconds of regulation on a 16-2 run. Robinson scored 12 of those points. The game volleyed back and forth throughout the first half, neither team building a lead with much conviction. Early on, the Bulls appeared to be playing with more urgency, and again they took a physical approach with the Nets. Five minutes into the second quarter, Robinson and C. J. Watson scuffled after Watson appeared to jab Robinson with an elbow. Robinson proceeded to grab Watson and hurl him into the scorer's table. Teammates swarmed and the skirmish was broken up quickly, but the Bulls capitalized on the rising emotion. Joakim Noah clapped wildly, grinning, and the crowd burst into life. Chicago ran its lead up to 11. The Bulls never pushed it beyond that, though. The Nets took control of the tempo and Reggie Evans awoke offensively, scoring 7 points in the period. Brook Lopez punctuated the quarter with a fallaway 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded to give the Nets an 84-76 lead heading into the fourth. The Nets pushed it to 109-95, with four minutes left, but the Bulls continued to hang tough. Robinson hit a jumper to bring Chicago within two, 109-107, with 1:11 left. His drive and dish to Carlos Boozer for a layup tied the score with 55 seconds left. After free throws by Lopez put the Nets back up, 111-109, Noah grabbed an offensive rebound and put it back to tie the score again with 24 seconds remaining. Williams missed his potential game-winning shot with one second left, and the game went to overtime. Late in overtime, Boozer scored, after a dish by Noah, to give Chicago its first lead since midway through the third period. But Johnson hit a dazzling floating jump shot with 12 seconds left to tie the score again. On the next possession, waving Noah away at the top of the key, Robinson drove past Williams and delivered a pull-up bank shot with 1.7 seconds. He hopped into Boozer's arms. But his celebrating was premature. The Nets called timeout and managed to get Johnson open for a game-tying runner in the lane, and he delivered, silencing the crowd. Johnson had a chance to give the Nets another lead in the second overtime, but his 17-foot pull-up missed wide with 5.5 seconds left. The Bulls could not get it up and in and the game went to a third overtime, the first time that has happened in the postseason in Nets franchise history. In the third extra period, the Bulls went ahead by five with one minute left, and the Nets could not close that gap. Their fight finally come to an end.