While Matas Buzelis and Caleb Wilson have spent much of the Bulls’ 2026 offseason showing up together in the public eye, Dailyn Swain has taken a different path. That silence is probably the right move.
Buzelis, the Bulls’ third-year forward, and Wilson, the rookie forward, have been easy to spot across the summer social feed, and their latest run together came Sunday in Chicago at the Macnomics Summit celebrity basketball game. Swain, by comparison, has barely surfaced outside a weekend spent meeting Bulls fans at 2026 Bulls Fest.
For Swain, that kind of low profile should be viewed as a positive. He doesn’t need to be chasing offseason clout or filling his timeline with workout clips. He needs to clean up what went wrong in Las Vegas Summer League and get himself ready to compete for a spot on the 2026-27 Bulls roster.
That path is not going to be quick. Swain’s roster journey figures to be a long one, and the first step is obvious: decision-making.
His rough summer league stretch, including an ill-fated point guard experiment, made the issue plain. He has to get to his reads faster and make his pass-or-shoot decisions with fewer dribbles.
The better version of Swain probably isn’t a ball-dominant creator anyway. He looks like a player who should thrive off the ball, using his athleticism to cut hard to the rim, generate easy baskets or free throws, and stay active as an off-screener who can help teammates get open.
Defense may be where he can make the strongest early case. If the Bulls’ point-of-attack defense is going to be uncertain, Swain has a chance to grab hold of that role with effort and energy. If he brings a high-octane motor on that end and simplifies the offensive side of his game, he can move past the rough summer league showing and work his way into regular rotation minutes.
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