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Matas Buzelis needed to do less.

He felt it within the first month of the season. In his first season with the Chicago Bulls, Buzelis became accustomed to lengthy game days. He typically arrived at the United Center or a road arena at 3 p.m., barely three hours after the team bus returned to the hotel from morning shootaround. His pregame rituals took four hours.

That worked for a 20-year-old rookie still trying to inch his way into the rotation. But this season — as a starter averaging 28.3 minutes per game — those extra hours on the court took their toll. Even the Bulls player development staff began to urge Buzelis to slow things down.

So midway through November, Buzelis popped into the office of coach Billy Donovan to fix his pregame rou

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