16 minutes is all Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen could offer Daniel Gafford in the team’s first game since Wendell Carter Jr. came down with an ankle injury against the Dallas Mavericks.
16 minutes is all Boylen could give a player who’s averaging four blocks per 36 minutes, a rate higher than that of elite rim protectors like Rudy Gobert and Andre Drummond this season. A player who just one game prior shot a perfect 6-of-6 and pulled down eight rebounds in nearly 25 minutes.
To an outsider, someone who doesn’t know the Bulls this season, that might seem like an aberration.