"We cannot roll the same team again and expect different results"
"Even with some of the positivity... with you know, with clutch wins and overtime wins, we're still at 39 and we play in. And we have to somehow generate an additional 10 wins."
"This group hasn't worked"
That's blunt.
I did not expect that much candidness or awareness from him. He should have said it and acted on it over a year ago, but I did not expect it from him at all at this point.
The only question AK actually answered directly was the question about whether or not there needed to be changes made to the front office. His answer was an emphatic "No!"
On the other hand, I was surprised by how much he admitted the team hadn't worked out and that changes were going to be made. I suppose after you've blatantly lied for so long you have to eventually throw the people a bone just so you don't lose your job.
Another year, another justifiable season-ending exhortation to ritual suicide for the front office. Some people just won't take the offramp toward personal and professional dignity.
A few things were made clear during Jerry's Big Adventure in Springfield last month. He's trying to sew everything up in the next 5 years because he doesn't think he can count on being alive much longer than that, and he said openly that it would be extreme onerous for his heirs to retain both teams rather than selling after he dies, and he expects his heirs will sell.
For Sox fans, you're going to get fucked. The state seems extremely uninterested in adding to the valuation of the Reinsdorf Family Trust, thank goodness, so the rest of us are okay.
For the Bulls I don't know what this means. When Boylen said he was acting as team "CEO," I think that reflected the general paralysis that predates Karnisovas and Eversley and Donovan. I think the Bulls are in a position to be sold as-is, but still fatten the fuck out of his bank account every year. Logically he shouldn't rock the boat. And rationally "what they should do" and "what they can do" have been narrowed down into a very small realm of possibilities, few of which have anything to do with individual players or emotional investment. And practically they don't want to do much (I mean even physical exertion) or spend much (beyond what the league makes them spend), so there's a balance to be sought there as well as some of these decisions are going to be made for them.
I don't think they'll "bring it all back" because that would cost the most money (lol at the idea of ever going into the luxury tax until that guy dies and we boo his widow). DeMar may just sign for a couple years but he's probably not offering a cash discount on his current salary. Patrick Williams is not getting less than he made last year. Everyone else's salaries are incrementally higher in excess of the increase in the luxury tax threshold.
Plan B probably consists of The Rondo Agenda: conceal that you're shipping a bunch of shit out by bringing lower-paid shit in. Toss out Derrick Rose for Jerian Grant by adding a "splashy" Rondo. In the 2024 context this would mean DeMar walking (more likely getting a sign and trade) and signing Chris Paul for a fraction of what DeMar was paid.
Plan C would be Le Reddit Blow It All Up, which involves the most effort and ultimately still a lot of money.
The irony of any post-DeMar Bulls team in 2025 is that if "successful" they will be surrendering a first round pick for a guy who longer plays here, which GMs are mercilessly ridiculed for. In the language of Erving Goffman, Karnisovas most definitely considers himself a shrewd operator and I don't think he can handle that ego death. That shouldn't be a a factor but it is. So I would think he has a strong personal aversion to Plan B, and will try to swing it toward a plan that either retains DeMar or snorts a few lines of Quin Snyder Marching Powder and nukes it down to bedrock at all costs (within reason eh). Thanks for coming to my TedX Talk: Live at Kennedy-King Community College.
unsurprisingly, there's low expectations for the team and that extends towards low expectations for press conferences
AK was not offensively stupid but beyond his prepared statement he still let slip that he's in way over his head
best example was regarding Lonzo. Asked "don't you need to evaluate Lonzo's status before the draft? and you're saying you're going to wait a few months?"
AK: 😐 ::pausing to consider the mere concept of proactivity:: "we will wait and see"
What I get from this is that they will really try to do something this time, but it's going to actually be hard to do LOL. They really value DeMar, but he's the one they could just not resign to avoid the tax. What they would really like to do is unload Lavine and probably Vucevic too, but they've signed both to nearly untradeable contracts. My guess is they at least unload Vooch, his contract being slightly easier to trade as a much lower figure than Lavine.
Every season is bullshit season with anything the Reinsdorks own. What a confederacy of dunces!
Not sure if it's on YouTube again after the post-deadline fiasco, here is the web location: https://www.nba.com/bulls/bullstv/live
I'm not even sure there was enough there to 'recap'
He once again said 'accountability' but didn't actually hold himself accountable
Whatever credit for saying the right thing ("need to make changes" "I have to be better") is countered in that it was a year too late
"We cannot roll the same team again and expect different results"
"Even with some of the positivity... with you know, with clutch wins and overtime wins, we're still at 39 and we play in. And we have to somehow generate an additional 10 wins."
"This group hasn't worked"
That's blunt.
I did not expect that much candidness or awareness from him. He should have said it and acted on it over a year ago, but I did not expect it from him at all at this point.
The only question AK actually answered directly was the question about whether or not there needed to be changes made to the front office. His answer was an emphatic "No!"
On the other hand, I was surprised by how much he admitted the team hadn't worked out and that changes were going to be made. I suppose after you've blatantly lied for so long you have to eventually throw the people a bone just so you don't lose your job.
I didn't watch any of it but saw some of DeRozan's comments. He at least seemed to be like fucking do something already lol.
Another year, another justifiable season-ending exhortation to ritual suicide for the front office. Some people just won't take the offramp toward personal and professional dignity.
A few things were made clear during Jerry's Big Adventure in Springfield last month. He's trying to sew everything up in the next 5 years because he doesn't think he can count on being alive much longer than that, and he said openly that it would be extreme onerous for his heirs to retain both teams rather than selling after he dies, and he expects his heirs will sell.
For Sox fans, you're going to get fucked. The state seems extremely uninterested in adding to the valuation of the Reinsdorf Family Trust, thank goodness, so the rest of us are okay.
For the Bulls I don't know what this means. When Boylen said he was acting as team "CEO," I think that reflected the general paralysis that predates Karnisovas and Eversley and Donovan. I think the Bulls are in a position to be sold as-is, but still fatten the fuck out of his bank account every year. Logically he shouldn't rock the boat. And rationally "what they should do" and "what they can do" have been narrowed down into a very small realm of possibilities, few of which have anything to do with individual players or emotional investment. And practically they don't want to do much (I mean even physical exertion) or spend much (beyond what the league makes them spend), so there's a balance to be sought there as well as some of these decisions are going to be made for them.
I don't think they'll "bring it all back" because that would cost the most money (lol at the idea of ever going into the luxury tax until that guy dies and we boo his widow). DeMar may just sign for a couple years but he's probably not offering a cash discount on his current salary. Patrick Williams is not getting less than he made last year. Everyone else's salaries are incrementally higher in excess of the increase in the luxury tax threshold.
Plan B probably consists of The Rondo Agenda: conceal that you're shipping a bunch of shit out by bringing lower-paid shit in. Toss out Derrick Rose for Jerian Grant by adding a "splashy" Rondo. In the 2024 context this would mean DeMar walking (more likely getting a sign and trade) and signing Chris Paul for a fraction of what DeMar was paid.
Plan C would be Le Reddit Blow It All Up, which involves the most effort and ultimately still a lot of money.
The irony of any post-DeMar Bulls team in 2025 is that if "successful" they will be surrendering a first round pick for a guy who longer plays here, which GMs are mercilessly ridiculed for. In the language of Erving Goffman, Karnisovas most definitely considers himself a shrewd operator and I don't think he can handle that ego death. That shouldn't be a a factor but it is. So I would think he has a strong personal aversion to Plan B, and will try to swing it toward a plan that either retains DeMar or snorts a few lines of Quin Snyder Marching Powder and nukes it down to bedrock at all costs (within reason eh). Thanks for coming to my TedX Talk: Live at Kennedy-King Community College.
unsurprisingly, there's low expectations for the team and that extends towards low expectations for press conferences
AK was not offensively stupid but beyond his prepared statement he still let slip that he's in way over his head
best example was regarding Lonzo. Asked "don't you need to evaluate Lonzo's status before the draft? and you're saying you're going to wait a few months?"
AK: 😐 ::pausing to consider the mere concept of proactivity:: "we will wait and see"
Whew. Glad that’s over.
What I get from this is that they will really try to do something this time, but it's going to actually be hard to do LOL. They really value DeMar, but he's the one they could just not resign to avoid the tax. What they would really like to do is unload Lavine and probably Vucevic too, but they've signed both to nearly untradeable contracts. My guess is they at least unload Vooch, his contract being slightly easier to trade as a much lower figure than Lavine.
Reports are saying we offered DDR an $80M two year deal. Am I out of touch with the current pay scale or is that ridiculously high?
Didn't take issue with the press conference, but mostly because I stopped giving a shit about what AK says a long time ago.