00:00My personal anecdote, I thought I was not prepared for him to gush about,
00:05and he hit the right notes here about the dynasty of Bulls
00:08from a guy who grew up in San Antonio and had his own dynasty to admire,
00:11and he certainly admitted he still had some love for the Spurs,
00:14but the specificity with which he talked about those Bulls teams
00:20and what they meant to him, and it wasn't just Jordan.
00:22It was just kind of across the board.
00:25I wasn't prepared for that, and you can say maybe, again,
00:28and he's playing to the crowd or hitting the right notes,
00:30but I don't get that sense from him.
00:33He seems like a pretty genuine dude.
00:34I mean, I met him once, but so that was my favorite personal,
00:40as far as professional, I absolutely love that he basically said,
00:46we don't have a very good roster with his boss sitting right next to him
00:49and Modest and Zellows and Trey Jones in the stand or watching from the road,
00:56and I thought he expertly said that because he said, you know,
00:59most rebuild situations means you don't have star-caliber players,
01:03and then he added the caveat that that doesn't mean we don't have guys
01:07who can get there, which I thought was a nice little enticement
01:10for a guy like Modest and Zellows in his young years sitting right there,
01:13but he was, like, very realistic and blunt about the state of the roster,
01:18and that was fantastic because that's the reality of the situation.
01:21The Bulls have a long way to go, and so for him to admit that,
01:25embrace it, and say the work begins,
01:28I thought was absolutely the best professional moment.
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