This wasn’t the change of speeds Coby White meant when he said he needed to improve that aspect of his game at the NBA level.

White tweaked an ankle this week during training camp for the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, which the Bulls open Friday night against the Lakers. The ankle had improved enough by Wednesday that the first-round pick took the Advocate Center court for some shots, though his status for the opener is unclear.

Either way, it’s a small speed bump for the speedy combo guard whom the Bulls drafted at No. 7 to try to accelerate their moribund offense.

Thanks to some injuries, some indifference down the stretch with glorified G League lineups and overall inefficiency, the Bulls finished 29th in offensive rating last season, ahead of only the woeful Knicks. They ranked 20th in pace.

And while placing the onus on White — who turned 19 in February — to change that, they didn’t draft the North Carolina product and all-time leading scorer in North Carolina high school history to have him bring the ball up slowly.

“Most of the guys in this draft aren’t finished products, not anywhere close,” executive vice president John Paxson said on draft night. “Do we believe he will learn and grow? Absolutely. All of our background on him is he’s the type of young man who will take the challenge on.

“As we talk as a staff, the way we want to play is you have to play faster in today’s game. You have to get the ball up the floor. This young man can play an uptempo game. (Coach) Jim (Boylen) has spoken often about how we want to have multiple ballhandlers, guys who can take the ball off the board and push it up. Coby can run. He can shoot. At North Carolina as a freshman, he took a leadership role with a lot of older guys. We feel he’s just a really good fit for us. He’s got a world of talent. He can score and you have to score in this day and age.”

Summer league is less about statistics and final scores and more about starting to learn about the NBA game. White’s numbers aren’t that important. His nuance — reading defenses, knowing when to push and when to get into half-court sets, decision-making in the half-court offense — will be.

“Especially at this level, you are going to be going against great players every night,” White said at his introductory news conference. “I feel like the competition level will increase for sure, a tremendous amount. That’s what I prepare for with my work ethic and how badly I want to be a better player and my willingness to learn and get better and think the game more. I feel I’ll make a smooth transition. I’m definitely prepared mentally to compete every night.”

That’s what the Bulls will be looking for from White and second-round pick Daniel Gafford, whose minutes will increase with Wednesday’s news that Wendell Carter Jr. will miss the summer league for surgery to repair a core muscle.

It’s also unclear how much, if at all, second-year wing Chandler Hutchison will play.

The Bulls pointed to the summer league when they shut Hutchison’s rookie season down in late January, but he hasn’t done much full-court work until participating in some of the summer league training camp practices this week.

Hutchison projects to be one of those athletic wings Boylen implored to run with White when Boylen spoke about White’s strengths at that introductory news conference. The Bulls’ slogan for this rebuild is “Run With Us.”

Starting in the summer league, a second slogan could be “Run With White.”