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00:00With the number 11 pick, the Chicago Bulls have made their official selection.
00:08The slide ends for Matas Bruzelis.
00:10He goes number 11 overall to Chicago.
00:14He played for G League Unite and despite the name is from Chicago, Illinois, the hometown
00:20kid who played at Hinsdale Catholic High School, a Chicagoland suburb, is now a member of the
00:25Bulls organization.
00:27Matas Bruzelis, Kevin, was the favorite to go 5th overall to the Detroit Pistons.
00:32He had a minus money price at minus 105 to be a top 5 pick.
00:37To be drafted outside of the top 10, that's an upset, but he doesn't go long outside of
00:42the top 10.
00:4311th overall to Chicago.
00:45How happy are the Bulls with getting to make Bruzelis their selection?
00:48Oh, I think they're very, very happy.
00:50You know, I talked about how awful the situation at USC was this year.
00:55The only one comparable was everything with the G League Ignite team.
01:00It was a disaster and they shut the entire program down.
01:03And to some degree, teams around the league have said, you know what?
01:05We understand.
01:06Ron Holland still goes 5th and Bruzelis doesn't fall far.
01:09Still clearly a lottery pick.
01:10Again, we thought he would go 5 due to ties to Detroit here, but going 11 is not a major
01:16slip when you consider his season at the G League was not all that great.
01:21One thing that made me buy in on the player a little bit more, Ben, is selling the defensive
01:26upside of a 6'9 kid with a 6'10 wingspan, strong foundation, can be a potential game
01:33changing piece weak side help defender in Chicago.
01:37I know that's not the way you want to, oh, your all-star is going to block shots on weak
01:41side help, but it's a nice starting block here for Chicago.
01:45I like the fit for the roster.
01:47I really do.