Bulls forward Luol Deng has been red-hot this preseason, shooting 50.6% from the field and 51.3% from three-point land.

Deng credits his hot shooting to a summer of basketball, including a stint with the Great Britain national team.

He was forced to sit out the entire 2009 offseason as he recovered from a stress fracture in his right tibia.

"I don't like to take summers off," Deng said. "Last summer was really hard for me. Three days before preseason is when I started playing live. This year, I came into camp in shape and I played continually. And that really helped my confidence."