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With lowered expectations, can Bulls forward Patrick Williams excel?

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It isn’t often that a team gets excited about their once No. 4 overall draft pick playing the role of seventh man to perfection in Season 6 of his NBA journey.

It’s even more rare when that same player is only in Year 2 of a five-year, $90-million contract extension.

Then again, the Patrick Williams experience has been full of flashes of above averageness to only be punched in the gut and completely let down.

So while his preseason has been encouraging, including his nine points in Tuesday’s 124-117 loss in Denver, pump the brakes.