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Rookie Caleb Wilson says he and Matas Buzelis will be key to protecting the Bulls' rim with Nic Claxton out: "I'm definitely going to be a big part." Tiago Splitter wants him looser: "Caleb has a thousand things on his mind right now... just go there and hoop."
"We're all freakishly athletic." Leonard Miller says that's why Tiago Splitter has been playing him alongside Caleb Wilson and Matas Buzelis. Now in the rotation and in the last year of his contract, the Bulls forward wants to stay: "100%. Yeah, I love it here."
Caleb Wilson says a bigger ball-handling role with the Bulls "comes with time and that comes with my coach trusting me and me showing it." Coach Tiago Splitter accepts Wilson's turnaround jumper only as a last resort: "he can make it. I don't love it."
Caleb Wilson and Matas Buzelis should "dictate the offense instead of just waiting for the offense to attack," Bulls coach Tiago Splitter said. Norman Powell tells both to shoot. Buzelis on last season: "We didn't know who was playing." He says roles are clearer now.