Star-Free Jazz Slaughter Summer League Bulls 80-63 Despite Caleb Wilson Rally ...Middle East

The Utah Jazz are so used to unnecessarily sitting their best players, they did it in Las Vegas Summer League!

No, seriously.

On Sunday, Sarah Todd of the Deseret News reported that Peterson and returning 2025 first-round draftees Ace Bailey and Cody Williams would sit out their meeting against our Chicago Bulls at the Thomas & Mack Center on Monday night.

Peterson is averaging 23.5 points on a combined 12-of-36 shooting (33 percent) from the field in his two Vegas Summer League games. Inefficient scoring or not, the kid’s already looking like a special athlete.

DARRYN PETERSONpic.twitter.com/aYTR6H9Irw

But he sat out Monday, on the second night of a back-to-back slate. Chicago, too, has a back-to-back on the docket Tuesday. Will Wilson, Swain and Essengue play?

Caleb Wilson did some fourth-quarter stat padding, but it proved to be too little, too late for the Bulls to outlast the Jazz’s scrubs. Utah won by nearly 20 points, 80-63.

New head coach Tiago Splitter, coaching his final game of the Bulls’ Summer League stint (various assistants will take the reins the rest of the way), opted to start the same five that led Chicago to a narrow 97-96 loss against Cameron Boozer’s Memphis Grizzlies on Friday.

In the backcourt, rookie No. 15 draft pick Dailyn Swain started at the point, with rookie two-way signing Jaylin Sellers at the two-guard spot. Second-year forward Noa Essengue started at small forward. With his former North Carolina head coach Hubert Davis in attendance, No. 4 pick Caleb Wilson looked for an encore to his unreal 35-point performance in Game 1 as Chicago’s starting power forward, and rookie two-way signing Tobe Awaka held down the middle at center.

First Half

Chicago’s lack of a traditional faciliator running the point haunted the club early. Sloppy Bulls passing and questionable jumpers helped Utah got off to an 9-2 start, with only Essengue putting the Bulls on the board when a Sellers block led to a snazzy fastbreaking dunk from the Frenchman.

Noa Essengue gliding to the rack!@NoaEssengue | #SeeRed pic.twitter.com/OO5m8l2jdZ

Caleb Wilson — wired for in-game sound on the ESPN broadcast — eventually shook off the cobwebs, scoring his first bucket with an off-the-bounce trey.

Caleb Wilson is money from deep ?@CalebWilson2025 | #SeeRed pic.twitter.com/k4VuVTSVwH

The Bulls’ two-way guys each chipped in buckets using their preferred scoring methodologies (Sellers nailed a triple, Awaka slammed home a dunk), Wilson chipped in a pair of blocks and a steal during a surprise 12-2 Chicago response.

A 9-0 Utah run to close out the opening quarter buoyed the Jazz to a 22-18 edge.

The Bulls and Jazz traded buckets throughout the second period. Without Peterson, Bailey or Williams, Utah center Orlando Robinson stepped up. He paced the Jazz with 10 points on 2-of-4 shooting from the floor and 3-of-4 shooting from the foul line, plus five rebounds, by the end of the first half.

The Bulls got within a point of the Jazz midway through the second quarter thanks to two free throw makes from Sellers and Essengue, but Utah promptly went on a 14-6 sprint to close the half up by nearly double-digits, 42-33.

Second Half

Splitter’s lack of confidence in Essengue became painfully obvious by the contest’s second half. The position-less forward opened the half glued to the bench, after egregiously overdribbling into double-teams.

Chicago as a team soon fell apart in the second half, allowing Utah to run away with it. The Bulls’ night was marred by terrible free throw shooting (a problem in that Friday Grizzlies loss as well), terrible field goal shooting, and lots of turnovers without a true point guard on the roster.

At least we were treated to a preponderance of Wilson rejections! But he was an absolute disaster from the charity stripe, going just 0-of-6 from the line. Rremember, the NBA is experimenting by limiting players to a single free throw, rather than letting them shooting two or three as dictated by a foul call (i.e. so one missed free throw could count as two or three missed points, depending on the context of the play — or just one point, if it’s an and-one call). So… Wilson missed out on as many as 12 points.

Caleb Wilson rotates over and blocks his 3rd shot of the night ✋Watch Jazz/Bulls in NBA Summer League action on ESPN! pic.twitter.com/kL9kRFkCUn

Wilson may have left a lot of offense on the board with his horrific free throw shooting, but he heated up as the game crawled to a doomed close in the fourth quarter.

He drove past a barrage of defenders for one of the nastiest dunks in Summer League so far, followed that up with a pull-up triple, then collected his fifth block of the night on the other end.

OH MY GOODNESS CALEB WILSON ?WHAT AN ATHLETE ? pic.twitter.com/c1KTUXH6VV

Though Utah had led by as many as 19 points, a personal 7-0 Wilson run helped Chicago pull within 10 points with 3:31 remaining.

After leaping off Wilson on a drive to sell a foul, two-way Jazz shooting guard Trey Alexander ran into the stanchion beneath Utah’s basket. He then crumbled to the concrete beyond hardwood. He stayed on the floor for several minutes, and was eventually carted off the court on a stretcher.

Pray for Trey Alexander everyone pic.twitter.com/mk9J3P648R

The Jazz gathered themselves and pulled away. Wilson wrapped up the game with a serviceable 19 points on 8-of-17 shooting from the field (12 of those points achieved during the fourth frame), eight rebounds, five blocks (!), a pair of steals, and two assists (against four turnovers). Wilson also chipped in three triples. He now has 10 long range makes through two games — significatly bettering his seven made 3-pointers across 24 contests at college.

He did unfortunately log a -14 plus-minus, but there are other Bulls to blame for that unfortunate stat.

Starting Utah center Jonas Aidoo ultimately led the way for his club with Robinson sitting late, finishing with 17 points, 11 boards and three rejections.

Biggest Non-Caleb Wilson Takeaways

Noa Essengue is going to need a lot of time with the Bulls’ NBAGL affiliate, the Windy City Bulls, in Hoffman Estates. The 19-year-old doesn’t look NBA-ready just yet.

His length did bother opposing Utah players on occasion, but he’s still quite scrawny from a strength perspective. While his shoulder didn’t give him any guff, the same couldn’t be said for the rest of his body. Essengue appeared to tweak his ankle and then his hand late into the third quarter, to the point where he was visibly limping and needed medical attention along the sidelines.

Jaylin Sellers might have an actual path to rotation minutes. The former Providence sharpshooter logged 13 points on 4-of-12 shooting from the field (2-of-9 from distance), but looked mobile on offense and chippy defensively.

We got a second straight nothing-burger game out of Dailyn Swain. The No. 15 pick out of Texas looked overwhelmed on offense, overburdened with lead playmaker duties, and couldn’t make a bucket to save his life. He went a brutal 0-for-9 from the floor and 2-of-3 from the foul line for a total of four points, plus a game-worst -17. He would either pass out of coverages late or blow layups when he did elect to actually take a shot.

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