Artūras Karnišovas

And I'm like, oh, geez, okay.

Well, how, how, how far away are we from these, these brain-dead GMs that populate the NBA before they get straight-up tricked by a completely AI-generated workout tape? Because I feel like that's something Arturas Karnišovas absolutely would have fallen prey to.

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Joe Dumars famously saw one workout from, uh, Darko Miličić, and he's like, "That's our fricking guy." So-

But I think what I wanna see out of Tiago in, uh, year one, first of all, development.

The top objective for the Bulls this season is not to win, and they no longer need to kid themselves that they are close to achieving their goals, and they no longer need to set meager goals the way that Karnisovas did.

Instead, the best case scenario for this Bulls season is that Caleb Wilson looks like a franchise player, that Noah Esengue, Leonard Miller, Mantas Buzelis, Dalyn Swain all take steps forward and look like guys you can continue to build around.

Beyond that, what I would like to see out of this Bulls team is how about just, like, make an identity for yourself of what are you about as a team? And I liked Billy Donovan as a coach, probably more than most Bulls fans.

And what I see from this John Krasinski article in The Athletic is, and which is out there on Twitter as a gift article, so you can read it for free, um, is a, uh, a guy who I remember talking to when I met him at a restaurant in the summer of 2013 for the first time.

Him and Arturas Karnišovas at the same time.

Was a great sit-down that lasted for two hours, and we got seriously to know them.

And there are some things-- There's a thing that I wanna read you here that I think is going to kinda give you an example of wh-who Tim Connolly is since he's been with the Timberwolves, and, uh, how th-this is mirroring who I first met.