CHICAGO -- LeBron James wasnt holding back.Clevelands superstar had plenty to say after the Cavaliers gave up 78 points in the paint on the way to another loss. The condensed version was this: Its time to start playing like a championship team again.Jimmy Butler scored 26 points, Dwyane Wade had 24 and the Chicago Bulls beat James and the slumping Cavaliers 111-105 on Friday night.Taj Gibson added a season-high 23 points and 11 rebounds for Chicago. Rajon Rondo had 15 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds as the balanced Bulls handed the Cavaliers their third straight loss.We got to get out of the honeymn stage, James said. You got to play the game, the right way. Weve got to battle every night like we aint won nothing. Last year is last year. After ring night is over with, now its a new season and everybody is gunning for us every night and we have to understand that. The honeymn stage is over. Its time to play some real ball and be physical, especially in the trenches. Giving up 78 points (in the paint) is ridiculous. Weve got to man up. Everybody.James manned up to the tune of 27 points and 13 assists, a championship-level performance on a night when he showed up dressed as a World Series champion: He arrived at the arena in a Cubs uniform to honor a World Series bet with buddy Wade.Kyrie Irving added 20 points and eight assists, but the Cavaliers matched their longest losing streak in a year.Chicago dominated Cleveland 78-60 in the paint, outrebounded the Cavaliers 49-33 and came out on top despite shting 3 of 18 on 3-pointers. It was a big turnaround for the Bulls coming off a loss to the Lakers.I think we know what were capable of if we play basketball the right way and do what were supposed to do, Butler said.DOWN THE STRETCHThe Bulls used a strong third quarter to turn a one-point halftime deficit into an 88-80 lead. And they withstd several pushes in the fourth to knock off the defending NBA champions.Kevin Love nailed a 3 to cut the lead to 103-99 with about 4 minutes left, but the Bulls hung on.Wade drove for a layup to make it 107-101 with 29 remaining. Nikola Mirotic then stole the ball from James, leading to a putback basket for Wade.Mirotic came up with another big play when he blocked a 3 by Irving with 1:11 left to cause a shot-clock violation.KING CUBJames clearly wasnt thrilled about having to wear a Chicago Cubs uniform after he rted hard for his hometown Cleveland Indians in the World Series. But he was a man of his word, honoring the wager he made with Wade, his gd friend and former Miami Heat teammate.James wore a No. 23 Cubs jersey with his last name stitched across the back, a Cubs hat partially covered by a Cubbie-blue hdie, pinstripe pants and long baseball socks. James uniform even had the 2016 World Series champions shoulder patch.I actually thought he lked gd, said Wade, who was waiting for James when he arrived at the arena and tk a picture of his ex-teammate. He actually did lk like a baseball player.The two hugged before tipoff and had some playful moments during the game.James patted Wade on the backside as they ran down the court together after he hit a tough fadeaway jumper over his pal in the third quarter. Wade returned the favor after burying a 3 in James face moments later.TIP-INSCavaliers: G/F Mike Dunleavy Jr. missed his second consecutive game because of a concussion.Bulls: Rondos triple-double was his first with the Bulls and the 29th of his career. ... Butler has 12 straight games with 20 or more points. ... With the Bulls playing four times in five days, coach Fred Hoiberg said Wade wont travel to Dallas for Saturdays game. ... 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Ten thousand miles from where the game was invented, in a place where ftball might refer to any number of sports but probably not American ftball, the punter is king.This is not because of any mythical accomplishments, though to be sure, the punters who emerge from Australia are gd. No, the positions popularity is by default.In Australia, kids learn to kick, and when theyve run out of more appealing uses for their ft, they turn to punting.We dont grow up throwing a baseball, shting a hp or trying to be the No. 1 quarterback, said Daniel Pasquariello, a native of Melbourne, Australia, and the starting punter at Penn State. We grow up trying to be the best fty player we can, and thats kicking an oval shaped ball around all day and all night.Fty, for those uninitiated, is Australian-rules ftball, a sport thats closer to soccer or rugby than American ftball. Its the sport most Australian kids hope to play when they grow up, and when the dream fades the fallback plan is punting.It is, in many ways, the most un-American of entry points to American ftball.Blame it on the time zones and the TV networks, really. Pasquariello knew a bit about the game from watching Monday Night Ftball, only there its Tuesday mornings action. If youre not up at 6 a.m., you probably missed it.Thats the case for the bulk of the players who come through Nathan Chapmans kicking schl in Melbourne. Chapman, a former fty player who spent two preseasons with the Green Bay Packers, opened the camp eight years ago with an inaugural class of five. That number dipped to three the next year, as the program struggled to catch on with Australians who had didnt know a punter from a plumber.Id say 90 percent of our guys who come down here have never touched an American ftball, Chapman said.But that changes. The players with the strongest legs get access to a program that offers 18 months of intense training and education -- as physically demanding an existence as most punters could ever imagine. And when its over, more than 90 percent will land a scholarship in the States.This is where the rts of the game are taking hold Down Under, growing little by little with two short steps and a kick.Pasquariello heard about Chapmans program, Pro Kick Australia, through a handful of friends. He bottomed out playing fty professionally, and he didnt see many other options. He had a strong leg, though, so he decided to give punting a go.It was 110 degrees in Melbourne for Pasquariellos first day in camp. It was a Sunday morning, and the handful of American college ftball games shown on Australian TV had just wrapped up. The way Pasquariello remembers it, he turned in a lousy performance.But the coaches saw something in me, Pasquariello said. And from there it was a pretty quick route to Penn State.Quick, yes. Easy, no.Most Australian-rules players are on club teams that practice once per week and play games on the weekend. Pro Kick is a full-time job. Many who try out arent accepted to the program, and the ones who get a lk go on to work six days a week, enduring daylong sessions that include significant weight training, stretching and theory courses on how the American game is played, along with extensive kicking sessions.The goal, Chapman said, isnt to get his players ready for America. Its to make them better than anyone kicking on the East side of the Pacific Ocean.We realize that if we want to get a scholarship offer, we need to be better than a thousand kids in America each year, Chapman said. Weve got to have that X factor. Thats the difficulty of 16,000 miles of water.Those early years were tough on Chapman. He knew the American game, and hed made a few inroads with coaches in the U.S. But getting one of them to take a chance on a kid from Australia, often sight unseen, was another story.To get the attention of coaches stateside, Chapman had to take the one play most American fans skip so they can grab a snack from the fridge and turn it into something spectacular. The beauty of the job, however, was that his kids were capable of doing just that.In Aussie rules, the kickers learn to bt it for hang time, learn to place the ball on a dime, learn to get kicks off quick and angle them just right. The talent and the leg strength are already in place when Chapman gets them. He just has to teach them everything else.Over here, college ball is boring, Chapman said of Australian ftball. Theres no crowd, no real fanfare. Sometimes they come in with the expectation that theyll just take a couple steps and kick it.They llearn to kick long and high, because thats what sells their game film in the U.ddddddddddddS. They learn to kick consistently, because thats what keeps them atop a depth chart once they arrive. They learn to bt the ball all over the field, because versatility makes them valuable.We think on our feet, Pasquariello said, and we punt with our feet.Chapman is obsessed with nuance, and that means a lot of repetition. For the former fty players, theres 20 years of muscle memory to relearn, and when the pressure comes, its easy to revert to old habits. But when they finally get it right, its a thing of beauty.Wake Forest punter Alex Kinal, an Adelaide, Australia, native, set the NCAA record for career punts last year.Tom Hackett, from Melbourne, averaged 48 yards per punt for Utah last year, tops among all Power 5 punters. He went through the New York Jets offseason training camp with seventh-round pick Lachlan Edwards, a native of Hastings, Australia.This year, Pasquariello isnt even the only Aussie punting in the Big Ten. Cameron Johnston, from Geelong, is at Ohio State. LSU, Arkansas and Alabama have all had Australians on their rosters in recent years.In all, 63 punters who have come through Chapmans program have played at an American university.Thats enough success that those early struggles to gain attention in the U.S. have largely evaporated. This summer, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh turned heads by scheduling a satellite camp at Pro Kick, though the NCAA quickly nixed the plan, much to Chapmans consternation. But the spotlight Harbaughs plans put on the schl was just the latest sign that American punting is gaining real -- ahem -- fting Down Under.They dont really grasp it, Pasquariello said of the locals, but guys coming over and having success, [Australians] are starting to see college ftball is a really big deal.The punting thing is great, Denver Broncos rkie Adam Gotsis said, but its a bit of a stereotype.Gotsis grew up playing Aussie rules ftball, t, and when he hit a wall, he lked to American ftball as an alternative. But at 6-ft-5 and 285 pounds, he wasnt exactly built like a punter.I was just a big kid, Gotsis said, so they said I could play on the line.Gotsis was part of a small community of players learning the American game in its entirety, but it was still remedial work. The club team he played with ran just one or two different plays, so when he got to the U.S., the game got far more complicated.Still, Gotsis thrived. He got his first starting assignment as a true freshman at Georgia Tech, and by his senior season, he was All-ACC and was drafted in the second round by Denver.But hes the exception to the rule.These Aussie players, they get approached to go into punting, Gotsis said. They dont ever say, You could be a great receiver or defensive back. Because they see them kick the ball, they get pushed into the bracket of being a punter.Gotsis admits, however, that punting has been a nice gateway for the sport. And truth be told, its kind of fun. Throughout his time at Georgia Tech, Gotsis would make a point of gfing off with the kickers, bting a few balls around for old times sake.And when Gotsis goes back home now, he sees more and more kids playing American ftball, and the club teams he started with are running a more complex style of play. Its hardly a new Australian pastime, but its a start, something Chapman has helped build from the ground up. Those camps now have from 25-30 players enrolled at any given time.Pasquariello got his start with a phone call in April 2014 from James Franklin, inviting him to Penn States spring game. As it turned out, Pasquariellos father had business in Chicago the same week, so the two traveled together. A few months later, Pasquariello bked another trip.That one was a one-way flight, he said. And Ive loved it here ever since.Before he arrived in Happy Valley, the biggest crowd Pasquariello ever played in front of mightve been 400 people. This year, hell sprint onto the field and get his leg lse as 110,000 fans dressed in blue and white wonder if its a gd time to get up to use the bathrm.In Australia, hes a pioneer, exploring the ranks of college ftball at its highest levels. But here, hes still the punter.But the journey here -- well, thats as thrilling as a bming 50-yarder with enough hang time to contemplate that great 10,000-mile divide and wonder if its really so big after all. ' ' '