Complex sentence: Luc Longley and Scottie Pippen did their best to keep the Bulls in the game while Jordan was fatigued in the third, but the Jazz reclaimed their lead and pushed it to 8 points early in the fourth quarter.
Split into simpler sentences: Luc Longley and Scottie Pippen did their best to keep the Bulls in the game while Jordan was fatigued in the third. But the Jazz reclaimed their lead and pushed it to 8 points early in the fourth quarter.