Julia Poe

you know, what Michael and I want in a head coach.

He starts a sentence that way.

And Michael Reinsdorf puts his hand on his shoulder, cuts him off and goes, no, I hired you.

You're going and hiring the head coach.

This is, you know, this is your team now.

This is your decision-making from here on out.

And I thought that was really telling at least in the signaling and kind of the, the front facing facade, at least that the Bulls want to put on

Only time will tell if that is actually accurate to how the team is being run.

But I really do feel that what Michael Reinsdorf was trying to say today is that he feels very confident in the hire that he made here.

And from there, he wants Bryce and Graham to go out and make this team his own.

There was a lot of emphasis on the resourcing that he is willing to provide, that the Bulls are willing to provide to this new front office.

But I do think that ownership is at least trying to signal early that they want their decision maker to feel like he is kind of operating with a lot of agency in that way.

Absolutely.

And I think it's a hard needle to thread.

The thing that I will always say to anyone in a front office or ownership position is that the more that you talk to the media, the easier it is to kind of thread this needle because we can ask follow-up questions.

We can turn this into more of a dialogue rather than just having to have, you know, a press conference once a year where you try to explain many, many diverse decisions that you've made over time.

I definitely think that in that press conference that you're referencing right after the firing that

Michael Reinsdorf hit really heavy and hard on a couple of concepts.

The idea that he was going to be a little bit more hands-on kind of how hard he went on backing Billy Donovan when they were trying to get him to stay.

I think that there was a certain amount of maybe overshooting in either the way that those concepts were articulated or just how fans interpreted them.