Bulls president Michael Reinsdorf shared his view on the concept of tanking
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What is the perspective of Bulls president Michael Reinsdorf on tanking?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody. Bears tight end Cole Komet. Cole, welcome to the party, pal. Well, thanks for having me. I heard it was a big day, so naturally I dropped everything I had going on today. You've complained a lot through the years about not being able to hear the score on the 670 AM dial when you're inevitably cruising around downtown. And now that we have an FM signal, Cole, you can now hear the score all day, all the time, all you want. You can hear all the Bears hot takes you want. Well, that's perfect. I'll make sure I blast that in the locker room.
This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And it was asked at the beginning of our show. Were the Bulls putting themselves in the best situation possible to get the best candidate possible to be their new general manager, president of basketball operations, vice president, whichever you want to term it, when Billy Donovan was going to be part of the deal? And now we also learn from our press conference that we heard from Michael Reinstorf that I don't necessarily know. No NBA owner is going to say, yeah, we want a tank. But Marshall, you and I both know there's a way that you can say it without saying it. Like, we really value draft capital. Assets. So... Our goal is to win as many games as possible long term.
He did say sustainable. He did say that. Fine.
Well, when I think it's sustainable, I think year after year after year. But our church, Karnasovas, lets you know both... With his words and his actions, he valued players over draft capital.
The 9 or 10. And... The 9 or 10 very good players.
Where is your source?
Him not understanding whether... Choms needed to tell him or someone else that other teams value draft capital. So you might want to get some extra draft capital that way. And this has been my entire stance as far as NBA team building goes. It's very simple. If you're not good, get bad enough that you can get good. And if you are good, be flexible enough, malleable enough that you can always have some draft picks in your pocket so that when the disgruntled superstar, that happens all the time, right? Becomes disgruntled. Giannis. You can have the pieces to make a trade for a Giannis Antetokounmpo and maybe his brother too.
Kevin Durant. No, no. Don't you bring that up right now.
He functions better when he has a brother on the team.
Yeah. All hell will break loose if the Nassus comes here.
When? Has there ever been a time he hasn't had a brother? Yeah, when he first got to the league. Really?
How do the Bulls' recent decisions impact their team strategy?
Okay.
Maybe he was just by his lonesome.
Just thought they were always a package deal. No, no.
I get it. If I were in his position, I would most likely do the same thing. You know how I feel about that.
Everybody eats. Everybody eats. Let's be clear on that.
The point is, there is a way to say it, even in his position. It's not his fault that being bad is a best practice in the NBA. And I illustrate the dissonance on purpose. So here is what Michael Reinsdorf had to say about to tank or not to tank.
You talked about your philosophy of wanting to always stay competitive and never wanting to be a tank team. Does that philosophy in this process have to be looked at? I mean, when you look at the White Sox side of things, their last playoff – run was because of a tank that they rebuilt the cubs tanked rebuilt the bears tanked they've rebuilt their playoff team i mean do you guys have to you know detroit san antonio do you guys have to start taking a look at that philosophy and saying hey there's a time and a place to do this. And maybe we have to be more prudent in changing our philosophy of always be competitive, always strive for the play in game, always strive for, you know, X, Y, Z, and, and, and just take an organizational look from ownership down.
Well, first of all, Joe, you know, I never strived to be in the play in tournament only like that. That was never, never the goal. Second of all, uh, We don't know where the lottery changes are happening.
That's true.
So it's really hard to say that right now. There could be a situation, well, you know what's out there and what's been talked about.
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