Billy Donovan

And I always, you know, feel bad when anybody in this profession loses their job, whether it be a coach or a front office person or someone that you actually work closely with.

No, I don't think so.

I mean, you know, the first thing is, you know, Arturis and Mark were the ones that brought me to Jerry and Michael.

Right.

So I'm really, really grateful for the opportunity that those guys provided me to be able to talk to Jerry and Michael.

Right.

You never like seeing something like that happen.

Organizationally, like I've mentioned to you guys, there's going to be a time we're all going to have to sit down and talk.

With Arturis and Mark and their situation, it's going to be myself and ownership and probably John Paxson.

We'll sit down and talk and just figure out what's the path from here moving forward.

So nothing's really changed from that end.

It's just obviously the situation with Mark and Arturis.

And I always feel bad when anybody in this profession loses their job, whether it be a coach or a front office person or someone that you actually work closely with.

i think there's a certain level of standards and expectations that are here you know i mean we have people from all different walks of life working in the building and players from all different walks of life right so the first thing is you know everybody comes with their own personal experiences but one is we got to all be professional i think there's got to be a high level of respect for one another and we got to help each other you know and then be accountable to those standards so i think that you know from ownership you know jerry and michael down to our tours and mark in the front office and me as a coach you know i think

And even to the players, you know, there's a certain standard that we want to all live by, you know, and we're all responsible to that standard.

He's a great, he's an all-time player and a great player.

Injuries have robbed him of a lot of the last...

three or four years but i think he's you know he's just one of those players where no matter kind of what's going on you you want to watch you watch him you know you watch him in pre-game you watch him during the game with with an extra just extra closely because it's fun watching you know the all-time great players and so you know our job is to to do a good job against them um he he

He hit a couple homers early in the Houston series, and then they walked him a whole bunch, frankly.

So he probably walked too much.