jnrjr79 wrote:dougthonus wrote:Chi town wrote:KC saying Bulls playing with a quiet confidence and he believes Coby will have a breakout season and Bulls will surprise people as their depth will play. He’s buying the defense and physicality too
I love KC, historically my favorite Bulls beat guy, but he's now a Bulls employee, and when you look at his commentary on his podcast now it clearly looks like he has shackles on what he's allowed to say. This ignores the fact that he was generally a balanced but leaning positive guy before. Now I think he's still a smart guy and will report some stuff, but his ability to be balanced in the face of genuinely negative events is gone. He's a rah rah guy now.
Honestly, I think he's generally been an even to negative guy when predicting actual Bulls outcomes, prior to his new role. He was often predicting fewer wins than were actually achieved. But he goes along with descriptions like the Bulls being "competitive" and generally puts a gloss on it that makes his thoughts seem more optimistic than they are. Basically, he never would actually voice an objection to the overall approach, but he isn't a guy like Stacey who would often overpromise actual performance.
I haven't followed him as closely since his move to CHSN, but I'll take your word for the fact that he's become more of a pollyanna.
Yep. I agree with your take here.
I am buying the quiet confidence. We are adding healthy Tre, Ayo and leaner Pat to the team that played with visible confidence. We aren’t relying on any rookies or aged out vets except Vuc… mostly all players that should get marginally better.
