Nick Friedell talks importance of Bulls getting their next head coach hire right (Hour 2)
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One defining moment of the Karnasovas-Eversley regime. I would say it's not just the Pat Williams contract. It's that it gave a player option.
At the end of it, they thought he was going to play so well that, hey, we'll give you the chance to renegotiate. Just terrible, terrible, terrible.
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What are the implications of hiring Bryson Graham for the Bulls?
His appearance is brought to you by the all-new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid. Make every day epic. Nick, multi-year NBA reporter, Bulls reporter for many years, primarily covering the Warriors now out in San Francisco. He joins us on twitch.tv slash thescorechicago. My, how things have changed since the last time we talked to you, Nick.
Layla, I mean, a couple hours after we talked last time, it went from, yeah, Matt Lloyd's the guy, Matt Lloyd's the guy, to Bryce, what, who? So I give the Bulls credit for this since the last time we talked. They're trying something that is absolutely different. And I know people were squawking, going, oh, well, wasn't Karnasovas and Eversley, weren't they different? Yeah. But at least it's still different from what they know, because what they know, it is not working for them. And I feel bad for Matt Lloyd, just in the sense that I know he wanted that job, and it made a hell of a lot of sense, and we'll see over time if Mike made the right decision. But I give them this in that they attempted to go a different path.
And they've got a guy in here that is at least known around the league. And Layla, I tell you, that day after I talked to you all the last time, I started texting some of my friends and I said, what do you think of Bryson? And without fail, like everybody was like, he's a really nice guy. And it's like, okay, well, what else? Like, what else do you know? And they're like, well, he's pretty good with the draft. And you're like, okay, well, hey, that's a start. From where the Bulls are at, more than anything else, what they need is better players. So I am pro anybody who takes that job and gets better players in the fold.
Well, and I think, Nick, we have to go back to rewinding to what was the discussion, what were the notes that we took, what were our observations in 2020 when Arturas Karnaschovas and Mark Eversley got the job? Because I remember once AK got the job, it was Jokic, Jokic, Jokic, second rounder, Denver, the process and scouting. But outside of that, that was what we focused on. What do you remember about the outside talk surrounding primarily Karnaschovas at the time?
It was so funny as you bring that up, because it was all Jokic. It was like, whoa, this, you know, this is the guy. Well, what else about that? Oh, well, you know, Jokic. So when you look back and you think about that moment, it was he had a good reputation from his time in Denver. and eversley was supposed to be the player relationships guy and he had all the relationships as an executive and it built that through time and that's why i'm fascinated to see how this actually plays out because while new orleans certainly has made some good draft picks they've had like no success at all and i know bryce was down there in atlanta for a year all right and they have a nice young core but I don't remember hearing the name over and over and over again through the years.
I mean, I tell you this, if we're comparing hire to hire, you at least heard Karnasovas' name certainly in time a little more than Bryson Graham's. Now, what that means, who knows? Either he can do the job or he can't. And a week in, he's a hell of a lot better public communicator than we've seen in a while because – He doesn't seem to be afraid to address the fan base and the people he's going to come across.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–1:00
2
What are the implications of hiring Bryson Graham for the Bulls?
1:00–6:43
3
How did the Bulls perform in the latest NBA lottery?
6:43–11:22
4
What challenges does the Bulls' new executive face?
11:22–30:29
5
What strategies are being discussed for the Bulls' head coach hire?
30:29–42:26
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