Yahoo Article about Brink from two months ago: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/little-known-assistant-coach-saved-051823122.html
>Swain will tell you he badly wants to succeed, that his desire to leapfrog his peers burns so fiercely it weighs him down.
>“I think it’s really easy to notice when I’m in my own head and kind of putting pressure on myself. I just try to stick with what I know that works,” Swain said. “Obviously having a routine is not gonna save you every game; you’re gonna have bad games. But I just try to stick to what I know and not get too discouraged and not feed into what people are saying in the media and stuff like that. All my teammates have been nothing but encouraging.
>“All the older guys are like, ‘Listen, you can’t have the weight of the world on your shoulders.’ They’ve made it so much easier to keep my head up.”
Kalamian is a longtime NBA assistant who has worked for eight different teams since 1995 and was most recently on Milwaukee’s staff under Doc Rivers.
Herscu, a former Lakers and Kings assistant, was in Portland with Splitter as an assistant and also coached the Rip City Remix in the G League last season.
Ahearn, a former NBA guard, coached the Spurs’ G League team from 2017-20 and was a Grizzlies assistant under Taylor Jenkins from 2020-24.
Curious where everyone stands on the Bulls' approach to free agency so far.
Overall, I don't mind the moves. Just adding talent in the door on short term deals that can help the young guys develop, as well as raising our floor enough to not be in the bottom 3.
That said, the big talking point among Bulls writers (Will Gottleib, Ricky o Donnell, even Sam Vecenie at The Athletic) has been the opportunity cost.
Coming into the offseason, we had the biggest cap space, and there was a lot of discussion about using that space as an asset- taking on unwanted contracts in exchange for draft compensation. So far, we haven't really seen that materialize.
To be fair, no team has attached a first-round pick to dump salary yet, so it's not like we have already missed out on an obvious opportunity. The market may simply not have developed the way people expected.
But by using a chunk of that cap space in free agency, are we potentially giving up the chance to be the team that facilitates one of those deals if they eventually arise? Or is that concern overstated because the market for true salary dumps with premium draft assets (mostly just firsts) just isn't there anymore under the new CBA?
I'm interested in how everyone views that tradeoff.
That said, I don't think there's a fanbase in the league that likes to argue with each other more than us lmao
Graham made the first tweak to the Bulls front office Tuesday, according to multiple sources, by releasing Windy City Bulls general manager Josh Malone, with more changes and additions potentially on the horizon as he evaluates his existing staff.
Graham is expected to continue tweaking the front office in the coming weeks, a process that could include hiring additional scouts and other support staff. The Bulls have not signaled whether they plan to continue with the structure of a general manager (previously Eversley) directly under the executive VP with a support staff of assistant GMs.