Mike Mulligan

I understand Michael Reinsdorn's comments on saying we don't want to tank.

That's stupid for him to say, yes, we should tank.

Especially with the owner, I mean, with the commissioner looking at the NBA.

Exactly.

If the plan itself, though, if he comes and say, okay, we need to rebuild or retool, as you call it, would Billy just say, you know what?

I don't want to deal with this right now?

What would make him say, I want to stay with this team, the Bulls, right now?

And he also had some really talented players that they were getting rid, they were going to move, and he probably didn't want to have that happen because then they were going down to square one.

I don't think the Bulls have anybody sitting around that he would say, well, no, if he goes, I go.

It doesn't feel like they have that kind of talent base right now.

You don't sit back and say, why did Billy injure Ball?

That team looked like it was going to work.

Like, no, I think he'd have done very well with that group if they could have stayed together more than 38 games.

I mean, and I think, you know,

What you learn watching Billy coach players is that a guy like DeMar DeRozan is a good player who played really well under his direction.

He found a way to make it work.

And that is what you're talking about when you're talking about different coaches.

As a coach, you can only be as good as the players you have.

And you can – listen, you can do great things with great players, but there's a huge difference between I want to work with Kevin Durant or I want to work with James Harden versus, you know, don't touch Noah Essengay.

I don't think –