Julia Poe

Anyone would love, you know, a dynamic player like an Angel Reese coming in and joining their program.

But they also care a lot about winning.

And I think that that was something that we have seen with the Sky is that this team has always done its best with the fan base, with popularity in the city.

When it can pair any level of star power, whether that, you know, is a Candice Parker or going back to players in the past before that, you have to pair that stardom with winning.

And this team was not winning.

So I think that what we see from this new roster rebuild is balance.

I think that one thing that I like to see in a roster is that when I look at this roster, I can tell just on paper.

how they're going to play.

You can look at the balance, you can look at the construction, and you can say, okay, they're going to stretch the floor, they're going to play fast, they're going to pull the floor out and let Camila Cardoso kind of cook a lot in the low block on her own, they're going to crash the boards, they're going to take a lot of threes.

And I can just tell that even without kind of talking to Tyler Marsh and Jeff Tagliocca, who confirmed that last night after the draft, you can just tell how they're going to play from looking at the roster construction.

And that is something that last year's roster and the year before that just really did not have.

Yeah, I mean, step one happens this week, which is the much talked about sit down conversation between Billy Donovan and ownership.

And I wrote about that in the Tribune this week.

It's going to decide

so much about the future trajectory of this team, whether or not their head coach from the last six years decides to recommit to a rebuild with new ownership.

And there's a lot of different ways to look at it.

I know a lot of folks have acknowledged that it is not always the most traditional way to go about things to keep your coach and bring in new executive leadership.

But

You know, Bulls ownership is very high on Donovan.

He's well respected, obviously, throughout the program, throughout the franchise.