NBA FINALS : LAKERS vs. CHICAGO BULLS : Sitting Bulls Tired of Being Sitting Ducks : Game 2: Chicago’s Jackson decries officiating again. Lakers, with their 1-0 advantage in hand, don’t have much to say.

Another long day passed for the Bulls, obliged by the schedule and the Lakers to wait from Sunday to Wednesday to try to rebound.

Welcome to the NBA finals, youngsters.

The Lakers, who started the series with 140 games of finals experience, lead, 1-0, and are looking for an early knockout tonight.

The Bulls, with no one who has ever been to the finals, are trying to keep their heads on straight enough to plan a comeback.

Indeed, if the Bulls checked USA Today, they could have seen Pat Riley, new Knick coach and retiring broadcast journalist, advising them that their best course of action was two days of silence between games.

This begged the question of what they should do in daily NBA-mandated interview sessions with 700 reporters swarming over them.

However, Coach Phil Jackson appreciated the sentiment.

“That’s what we said coming down here,” Jackson said, laughing.

“You guys (reporters) have had too long to think about it. You guys have too many angles to get to. I’ve had too long to coach. The players have had too much time to think and talk.”

Jackson, of course, had an angle of his own to pursue.

Upset at the free-throw difference--the Lakers shot 34, the Bulls 18--Jackson peppered his remarks with critiques of the officiating.

“The only thing that bothered me, is every time they got in trouble, Magic (Johnson) rolledinto the lane and (the officials) bailed him out,” he said.

This is a universal postseason tactic. Laker Coach Mike Dunleavy used it after Game 2 of the Portland series, noting that the Trail Blazers had been jumping on his players’ backs. Three new officials work every game, and coaches try to put them on alert early.

“Just the same old song,” Johnson said.

“I heard that. We always hear that. That’s what’s going to happen. Everybody’s trying to make their chess move. We’re not going to get sucked into it.”

Said Dunleavy: “I think (Jackson) is trying to get it into the papers.”

When not imparting a thought for the day, the Bulls have been called upon to answer the question of whether Michael Jordan took over too early, whether they turned into the Bulls of four years ago, and in general, what happened.

They have mentioned too much rest (Jackson said that), nerves (Jordan said that), tight rims (John Paxson, honest) and experience (all of them).

Before the series, the Bulls pooh-poohed their inexperience. After Game 1, they decided that Laker experience had prevailed.

For example, this was Jordan talking of Sam Perkins’ winning three-pointer:

“Sam could have missed that shot and felt comfortable with himself. This is the advantage I think they have over us--the fearlessness, the desire to take that shot in a pressure situation.”

There was also the question of whether the Bulls, unaccustomed to the media blitz, were saying too much.

In Game 1, Chicago took Byron Scott away, playing everyone one on one.

Scott got off four shots, none after the first quarter.

Monday, Paxson said: “We’re probably going to have to give (Scott) some shots. We’re going to have to double-team more.”

Said Scott, brightening: “Oh, really? Sounds good to me.

“If they do, more power to me because I’m going to hit the shots.”

It was hard to remember a day when the Bulls weren’t surrounded by questions and the Lakers weren’t considered the favorites.

Even if that day was as recent as last Saturday.

“Let’s face it,” Jackson said, trying to calm the roiled waters, “it came down to one shot, whether we were down 1-0 or not. Theirs went down, ours didn’t. It’s tough to create angles from that. We’re not going to throw the baby out with the bath water.”

Indeed, you can’t say the Bulls were overwhelmed.

The Lakers won despite getting five points from their bench, one field goal from Scott, with Johnson taking only five shots.

Their 66 shots tied the playoff low since the advent of the shot clock.

On the other hand, they’re ahead and the Bulls are behind.

NBA Notes

James Worthy’s sprained left ankle is still sore. He didn’t practice Monday or Tuesday but is expected to play tonight. . . . The Lakers are 12-3 in postseason play, 5-2 on the road. They have held five opponents in a row to 95 points or fewer. . . . In the past three games, the Laker bench has scored 27 points.

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TIME: 6 p.m. (Pacific)