Forward breakdown: Bulls have put ball in Patrick Williams' court

The Bulls gave forward Patrick Williams a five-year, $90 million contract extension last summer, but he didn’t come close to living up to it.Matt Rourke/AP

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If Bulls forward Patrick Williams was looking for another life preserver to be thrown his way last month, he was in for a long wait.

Even executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas, the man who bet on Williams by making him the No. 4 overall pick in the 2020 draft, wouldn’t make excuses for the 23-year-old during the Bulls’ exit interviews.

‘‘Patrick had a tough year,’’ Karnisovas said. ‘‘I think he struggled. I think he knows that; we know that. He had higher expectations for himself; we had higher…