Matas Buzelis doesn’t want to rush anything.

The forward is not afraid of setting goals that scrape the sky in his second season with the Chicago Bulls. He wants to be named an All-Defensive player. And he wants to become the third second-year pro to win the league’s Most Improved Player award. Buzelis, after all, has never been one to be shy about his future .

Even with the swagger of these lofty expectations, Buzelis isn’t pressuring himself to become the star of the show in Chicago this season, which opens Wednesday night against the Detroit Pistons at the United Center.

“I think I can be a go-to guy,” Buzelis said. “But at the end of the day it comes down to whatever the team needs to win the games. The NBA now, it’s positionless. So whoever has a heater, whoever’s playing extreme

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