Joel Lorenzi

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2,008 appearances 17 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 2 Jul

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Rahimi & Grote Show · Best of the Bulls: Billy Donovan steps down as head coach · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

then like a real coach you want to get behind for the long term, definitely as long as they got behind Billy, right?

And so I don't know, like it's easy to say like, yeah, go in the G League and go pluck a ballsy guy like Mark Dagnall when he was 35.

It's harder to find someone like that, especially for as much as like we want to talk about floor raising and ceiling raising, like

One of the better qualities about Billy was that he was a culture setter.

People got behind him.

Players wanted to play for him.

And that's something they're now going to need that from the next guy.

Whether that's, like, that might be in the GM, too.

Like, this is one of the qualities they talked about.

They want communication and all this stuff from a GM.

Now they don't have ability to fall back on for that sort of stuff.

Like, you might have been able to sort of go to, like, a decision maker who was more analytical or, like, wasn't necessarily as front-facing.

And they could have sort of hid behind Billy or maybe not hid.

But they could have deferred to Billy on that stuff because the coach is the most front-facing guy anyway.

But now they're really going to have to find... I mean, Billy was like one of a kind at that sort of stuff.

Yeah.

I mean, if the question is what's keeping this from going exactly the way it did the last time, nothing really like any reassurances there.

But like what I would say is like I imagine this experience five, six years of this experience between AK and Billy and them together like that, I would hope.

informed michael about what he wants this next thing to look like and that was kind of why he received some of those questions about uh giving the next guy autonomy this was before he even had to do a second hiring search right like i imagine this experience inform uh the kind of people he wants in the building the decision makers he wants in the building how much he'll sort of get himself involved in the process and like look i know like

Pax's, like, looming influence has made some people uneasy.

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