Joel Lorenzi
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2,008 appearances
17 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 2 Jul
Joel Lorenzi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Wednesday.
Wednesday is what I've heard.
Yeah, I think it's I think it's a good it's an encouraging hire is the way I describe it.
I think when you look at sort of the resume, obviously, there's not there's not any extensive head coaching resume among any of the guys.
They sort of look at his finalists, which included Mike Inoria, Minnesota, that included Ryan Schmidt.
In Atlanta, and that included Wesson Sell Jr., who has the most NBA head coaching experience of that crop.
But Thiago's been head coach of both the Brazilian national team.
Obviously, this past year, he kind of got thrown into the fire with Chauncey Billups getting roped into this gambling investigation and sort of had to...
It's a tough thing to be roped in, not just for those reasons.
That's sort of a dark cloud that looms over a team.
But to then take them to the playoffs and sort of earn a seventh seed in the play-in, like, that's not nothing.
And so I think...
The Bulls were both impressed with that, and you combine that with everything he learned.
He had a long playing career, but the bulk of his NBA career was spent with the Spurs, where he won a title, and obviously everybody knows Greg Popovich's resume and what you absorb from that culture.
That's a culture that teams are trying to replicate.
That's a culture that influenced Sam Presti, which is a guy that I think everybody sort of wants to think like.
So there's a lot to like with Splitter, and I think most importantly, the Bulls are clearly approaching this sort of inevitable period of
development, right?
And Tiago's 41.
And so I think the idea, and I think you can kind of see this with a guy like Schmidt, too, was...
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