David Pivnick
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231 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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it is decidedly undecided. So Anders Sorensen was the interim coach, and I respect what he's done, which is basically come out and say whether or not he's the head coach, he likes the organization and wants to be involved and is willing to stay on under someone else in the future, which I think is great. I think he'd be well-suited, frankly, as an assistant coach.
I don't necessarily think he's the right guy for the head gig. I think the prime target is that every Blackhawks fan that's sort of paying attention to this wanted was David Carl, who's the coach at the University of Denver. He's probably the most sought-after head coach candidate in the world and has built an incredibly successful program and development pipeline in Denver.
Unfortunately, and I get his decision-making, but he ultimately interviewed for the Hawks job, the Anaheim Ducks job, and a couple others, and made the cut that he was going to stay in college, and he signed an extension. in Denver and with the University of Denver and said he wants to keep, you know, his family where they are and not move around and have stability.
So I wish him nothing but the best with that. But I think, I think the Hawks had a lot of eggs in that particular basket and were very focused on him from a development standpoint. And now I think they're sort of back to the drawing board and looking at some other options. So I don't really know where it's going to go. It seems to be a slow process.
And again, I suspect in part that's because they have David Carl and maybe Mike Sullivan, the former Penguins coach as sort of prime targets who ended up either not moving or going elsewhere. And now they're sort of recalibrated.
Yeah, that was great because you finished that by saying I'm watching them closer than you do right after you were talking up the Timberwolves and Anthony Edwards, who got routed last night. And Edwards was absolutely dreadful, missed every shot he took in the first half, and had no jump shots made in the whole game until about two minutes ago.
Look, the first thing is I really dislike the Indiana Pacers other than Pascal Siakam. who I will always love as a former Raptor. But I think the Pacers look damn good. I mean, they beat the Bucs, and it wasn't just due to injuries. They absolutely earned that series win. They're beating the Cavaliers and heading back to Indiana up 2-0.
And at this point, I think the Pacers have a legitimate chance to come out of the East. But just like hockey, there's been a lot of good competitive games, lots of comebacks, 20-point comebacks, 12-point comebacks. Seems to be the season for it. So I think the Thunder Nuggets is a very fun series. I thought the Thunder were going to absolutely crush them.
But the Nuggets came back from double digits down in the fourth quarter the other day and they won. And I think the Timberwolves have a very real chance to come out of the West. But they lost yesterday to Golden State in game one. So they've given up home court advantage now. And they lost the game where Steph Curry lost.
missed basically three quarters of the game leaving with an injury so I think the Warriors have a little something going with Jimmy Butler you know looking a little bit reinvigorated and Buddy Heald which is you know a name from the past that has not really worked out as intended in the NBA but was a heck of a college player he kind of looks like college Buddy Heald right now and is really playing well so right now I still think the Thunder will end up coming out of
the West, and it will end up being the Celtics or the Pacers out of the East. But the Pacers and Timberwolves are looking much more threatening than I think people anticipated coming in. And again, a lot of young stars playing good high-level basketball.
I think the NBA, you know, the ratings are not where they want them to be, but I think there's a lot of young and exciting talent in the league for people to watch if they want to pay attention to it.
Yes. I mean, I think it's all of that. I think the TV deals are a headache. I think when you have a series like Milwaukee versus Indiana that was blacked out heavily in the Indiana State market and in Wisconsin – you're not doing yourselves any favors. Having a lot of games on NBA TV, which I have, but lots of people don't, isn't great.
But I also think it's a big problem where a lot of the teams that are really strong right now are not in the heaviest market, although the Knicks and Celtics are playing each other, and that's an entertaining series that I think will have decent ratings, but a lot of the games are not. I think they've got major problems with how they schedule the games. There are so many games being played with
Eastern or Midwest-based teams that have the late-night start, which I think makes things really difficult. I took my kids to an 8.30 start central time game last week in Milwaukee, and it's just a tough time to take kids to games, let alone to have them watching on TV at home. So I don't think that's helped. And then the last thing is the stars.
I think people still like and are interested in Seth Curry, but LeBron's already been eliminated, and Giannis has been eliminated. Doncic has been eliminated. So a lot of the bigger stars are not currently playing.
And some of the superstars that are still playing, you know, Shegel, just Alexander or Nikola Jokic are terrific players, but don't necessarily draw the same number of eyeballs as LeBron did or Kobe once did or Michael Jordan certainly used to.
They are quite active. It does not, I mean, I do think you're right. People, myself included, weren't sure how things would play out. And I think the DOJ has been actively pursuing cases. And a lot of the areas where it looks like you know, resources have been reallocated.
There's been a lot of focus in reallocating of those resources into healthcare enforcement, which, as you know, and folks who have listened to us chat before, that's very much where a lot of my efforts are focused on the defense side.
So it's made for interesting developments and a few interesting cases that I'm certainly following closely, but I think the DOJ will continue to be active, notwithstanding the a new administration taking over earlier this year. And if anything, it'll be something more of a reallocation of priorities.
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