Tiago Splitter stresses it will take a lot of work, time to rebuild Bulls

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What are the key characteristics of Bulls' new head coach Tiago Splitter?

Mark Grote 0:02

Basically, the characteristics that, you know, I kind of hit on earlier. You know, I truly believe in his basketball IQ. I believe in his ability to communicate, to connect, his competitiveness, his passion for development. And that's where, you know, that's just where we're at as an organization right now. And as we're building, those things mattered a ton. And as we were going through our process, you know, we had all these characteristics written up on the board and we try to hold ourselves accountable to those things. And so, yeah, I mean that he checked a lot of our boxes. And like I said, we're happy. We're happy we landed on him. That is Chicago Bulls Bryson Graham. He's the executive vice president of basketball operations.

Mark Grote 0:57

Bryson Graham is new. He was talking about the new head coach of the Chicago Bulls, the 41-year-old Tiago Splitter. who officially was introduced yesterday and took a bunch of questions from Bulls reporters, and we've got some stuff that we think is significant that we're going to play for you. But I think the number one takeaway from everything I heard, and there was some substance to some of the things that both Bryson Graham and mostly Tiago Splitter were saying, but to me... The most important parts of this are two different sentences, one from Tiago Splitter and the other was from Bryson Graham. Tiago Splitter said, it's going to be a lot of work. It's going to take some time. Bryson Graham said, we are at the ground floor, which could mean many things.

Mark Grote 1:54

It could be the ground floor of plastics.

What does Tiago Splitter say about the rebuilding process for the Bulls?

Mark Grote 1:58

It could be Sam Wainwright. Hee-haw. Oh, come on, George. It could be. It could be that, or it could be the ground floor of the Floyd era.

Marshall Harris 2:08

Wow. See, the fact that you allowed that to seep into your brain. That's disappointing, Mark Grody.

Mark Grote 2:15

Is it worse than bringing up the Boylins earlier this week? The E and the A? Yeah. It's about on par. Right on par. But you agree with me, though, that no matter what... And we're going to play stuff for you. We have opinions on what was said. We have opinions on the Bulls. But what you should go into... thinking after during every single answer is it's going to take a lot of work it's going to take some time ladies and gentlemen your rebuilders are bryson graham and tiago splitter hey maybe i am being unfair to bryson graham and to tiago splitter because

Marshall Harris 2:53

I'm sorry, it's all relative. In the last introductory press conference I heard for our head coach of this magnitude was that of Ben Johnson and what he talked about and me being somewhat skeptical in terms of a timeline, right?

How does Bryson Graham view the current state of the Bulls organization?

Marshall Harris 3:07

Because that was my thing. We both had questions we wanted answered, and we'll get to those answers in just a moment.

Mark Grote 3:12

Can the Bears be good right away with Ben Johnson? Right.

Marshall Harris 3:15

And he said it depends on how much you're willing to work and how much you're willing to sacrifice, right?

Mark Grote 3:20

Yeah.

Marshall Harris 3:20

They had a quote-unquote possible franchise quarterback. I don't know that the Bulls have a possible megastar, a future Hall of Famer under their control right now. They've got Josh Giddey, and they've got Matis Bouzelis. And... A week from today, they'll have some other players on their team, a top four pick and maybe a top 15 or a top 10 pick even if they make a trade.

Mark Grote 3:46

Waggler.

Marshall Harris 3:46

So I don't know exactly that they have the same type of framework that the Bears had when they introduced their head coach. But I do know this, that from everything I heard from both Bryson Graham and Tiago Splitter, including the two sentences that you pointed out, Mark, that the future is looking brighter to me than it was a year ago today.

4:06

Yeah.

Marshall Harris 4:06

And also that the possibilities are much more boundless and expansive than they were a year ago. There's nothing hamstringing the Bulls right now because that's what I take from the ground floor comment is that we can build whatever we want here because there's an open lot and we have foundational pieces in me, the general manager or the lead basketball executive. And then we have, of course, the head coach, Tiago Splitter.

Mark Grote 4:34

I think that the Bulls are in better shape right now, but only merely by the process of elimination at this moment.