Daniel Gafford is embracing his expanding role

With dunks and blocks, Daniel Gafford has played his way into the Bulls rotation.

The Bulls, like many other teams, have had their share of gaffes in the NBA draft.

This time it's looking like a positive with Gaff, that being Daniel Gafford, the second-round lob dunk engine who seems ready to get his first NBA start Wednesday in New Orleans.

"I thought he (Gafford) was great," Bulls coach Jim Boylen said following Monday's loss in Dallas in which Gafford had 13 points, making six of six field goals on dunks in relief of the injured Wendell Carter Jr. "He gives us vertical spacing; that's important. We want the floor to be bigger to guard. We want to spread it and play vertically, make defenses…