Billy Donovan
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Oct 26, 2026
Colin CowherdHOST
Nothing fits.
Colin CowherdHOST
Billy Donovan would get criticized.
Colin CowherdHOST
It's like, what is he working with? They flush out the front office.
Colin CowherdHOST
They bring in new guys.
Ryan BrumleyHOST
Who'd they got?
Bomani JonesHOST
Billy Donovan.
Bomani JonesHOST
Oh, they did do that.
Bomani JonesHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cordaro JohnsonHOST
You know, people, you know, there's some people that celebrated it for Tiago Splitter.
Cordaro JohnsonHOST
Some people that said, oh, this is just like Billy Donovan.
Cordaro JohnsonHOST
And then, of course, as it happens on Bulls Twitter, got people talking about, oh, well, this is no different than Billy Donovan.
Cordaro JohnsonHOST
Y'all judge Billy Donovan for benched Modest, but not Tiago Splitter.
Cordaro JohnsonHOST
Well, guess what? Modest went out and responded, had the court open to him, had his best game of the season against the Wizards, even with missing those opportunities against Trey Young.
Cordaro JohnsonHOST
And Modest himself has said he appreciated it.
Cordaro JohnsonHOST
So when you look at it, it seems like, to me, people miss nuance.
Cordaro JohnsonHOST
But how do you feel about Tiago bitching Giddy, bitching Modest in that moment? And did it remind you more to what Billy Donovan did? Or do you look at it as more of a developmental opportunity?
Jason GoffHOST
Philadelphia days.
Jason GoffHOST
He was bad with Donovan and Mike Vick and Kevin Cobb and them boys, Kansas city.
Jason GoffHOST
There's been some moments where, But you got Patrick Mahomes, right? You got Travis Kelsey.
Jason GoffHOST
You got Chris Jones.
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Jason GoffHOST
These two guys have now gone through this with two different coaches in the same organization.
Jason GoffHOST
This ain't you going to a different team and having to catch a brick because the situation doesn't feel good or you're just new to it or new teammates or you're not gelling.
Jason GoffHOST
No, no, no. Billy Donovan did this as well.
Jason GoffHOST
At some point, we're going to start listening to these coaches as opposed to our feelings or just what numbers say.
Rudy CamposGUEST
You saw the coaching staff huddled up.
Rudy CamposGUEST
And I don't know if you noticed before they broke off, Billy Donovan kind of walked away and then the coaching staff broke up.
Rudy CamposGUEST
So there's little body language here and there.
Rudy CamposGUEST
And I'm, I'm just circling that little, little bit there.
HaizeHOST
Now, it could come back to blow up in my face, but nonetheless, we're going to have some fun with it today.
HaizeHOST
And we're going to talk about Tiago's coaching style because I've already seen some bad comps to people saying, well, when Billy Donovan held a bench minus, it was bad, but Tiago's doing it and we're celebrating it because it misses, like most of the people do who react to things on social media.
HaizeHOST
and some of my contemporaries on other shows, it misses the nuance.
HaizeHOST
And we're going to dive into that today, and we're going to get into your voicemails.
11 MINS LATER
HaizeHOST
Did he show better awareness after returning? He did.
HaizeHOST
The bigger lesson here is that a player needs a path back onto the floor after being corrected.
HaizeHOST
There was no pathway under Billy Donovan.
HaizeHOST
That's the difference.
Matthew MitchellGUEST
And I did this first year and will continue to learn.
Matthew MitchellGUEST
But the basketball part, I was able to learn a lot while I was out because it gave me time to Billy Donovan at the Chicago Bulls at the time was a great mentor of mine.
Matthew MitchellGUEST
So I was able to see the pro game.
Matthew MitchellGUEST
I did some TV work that let me see other college programs.
Chris ArnesonHOST
And then his media salary is not even publicly disclosed.
Chris ArnesonHOST
That just made me think of how last night me and my dad were talking about how Billy Donovan is now an assistant coach on the Spurs bench and how Billy Donovan might take over Mitch Johnson's head coaching duties sometime this season, especially if the Spurs are struggling whatsoever, which the Spurs, what, they're 0-2 right now, right? They lost to OKC and to Houston.
Chris ArnesonHOST
But...
Chris ArnesonHOST
No, and then we were saying...
Chris ArnesonHOST
And then I was going...
Chris ArnesonHOST
I was like, yeah, what if Miss Johnson just switched with Billy Donovan and then Miss Johnson just becomes the assistant coach? And my dad's like, no, their ego is too big.
Chris ArnesonHOST
You would just take the buyout and then just go sit on the beach somewhere.
Chris ArnesonHOST
And then I thought of this funny stand-up bit where I'm like, people always say...
HaizeHOST
You want to send the message that if you play well, I'm going to reward you.
HaizeHOST
Too much under Billy Donovan.
HaizeHOST
Way too much under Billy Donovan.
HaizeHOST
We saw him go with the lineups because they were veterans or they were his starters, even when they weren't playing the best.
HaizeHOST
How many games did we see Nikola Vucevic close where we were all like, there's no reason for Vuce to close this game? So while it's going to raise some questions, it's going to cause people to talk about Josh Giddey and Madis Bouzelis getting benched in the fourth quarter of this game.
Scott RabalaisGUEST
And he won a lot of games.
Scott RabalaisGUEST
He retired as the second winningest coach in SEC history, and he's still ranked fourth, I think, behind Rupp and Calipari and Billy Donovan.
Scott RabalaisGUEST
But...
Scott RabalaisGUEST
It was the fight to, you know, for whatever the fight was, that was the most important thing to Dale.
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