Mike Baker

I think it's going to be great for you guys to work with from a media perspective.

And I'm curious to see how how it goes there, because I was really impressed with the year that Thiago had here in Portland.

Well, obviously a tough situation.

As you mentioned, the second day of the season was

We all wake up and Chauncey's getting walked out, which...

we were not expecting to see happen.

And so, and the thing about Tiago taking the top spot as well was that, you know, Tiago didn't even get to Portland until I think a couple of weeks before training camp started.

So it wasn't even like he was here the whole summer and was working with the staff and the players.

And then, you know, Chauncey gets arrested and then he gets the spot.

It was really like, he'd only, again, he'd only been in town for a month, maybe a month and a half.

And then, you know, Chauncey gets walked out.

And then the staff, which, again, a bunch of guys who, you know, had only really known each other from the time they'd been in Portland.

So, you know, St.

Andrews, Quentin Johnson, Nate Bjorkman, who obviously was a head coach in Indiana.

You know, the story was that they had initially thought that Nate was going to take the job.

But then they Nate had said that he thought it should go to Tiago.

And so for him to get kind of thrown into that situation, I thought he did a fantastic job dealing with it.

I mean, there's there's obviously no manual approach.

of instructions to tell you like, Hey, this is how you go about getting your team focused and ready to play when your head coach just got federally indicted.

So like, that's obviously a unique experience on its own that there's really no, no, no,