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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Sean Highkin believes Blazers owner didn't want to pay Tiago Splitter

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Sean Highkin of the Rose Garden Report to share insight and background on new Bulls head coach Tiago Splitter, who most recently was the Blazers' interim head coach. Highkin explained why Splitter wasn't quickly promoted to the full-time head coaching role in Portland at season's end. Hint: It had nothing to do with his coaching acumen.

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0:03.3

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0:16.2

Spiegel and Homes, afternoons on the score.

0:20.0

Teagogy can point to one thing that you got better at as a coach from the beginning of the season to now, what would that be?

0:28.6

How to push the right buttons with the players, how to coach them on the court during games, what we need in certain moments I learn what the

0:43.9

players need how to get guys ready also learn tendencies that they have throughout the game.

0:57.0

I think it's one thing is just to watch them on TV.

1:03.0

Another one is, you know, get the best out of them on a timeout, on a pregame speech, on how you prepare, practice, stuff like that.

1:15.4

So I think I got way better.

1:19.9

Tiago Splitter talking about his season being asked questions by our next guest, Sean Hiken,

1:26.6

who does an incredible job of covering the trailblazers and the fire.

1:32.4

Rosegarden Report.com is where you could check out his work in Rip City Radio 620 in Portland.

1:39.5

And along with covering them, he used to cover the Bulls pretty regularly when he lived here. He now joins us on the score hotline, brought to you by Potawatomi Casino and Hotel, the Midwest Best Casino. Sean, thanks so much for joining us. What do the Bulls have here with Tiago Splitter? Well, first of all, it's good to be back on here. It's been a long time since I've been on with you guys. So it's always good to connect with you guys. But yeah, this is, I think, a really smart

2:07.1

hire for where the Bulls are at right now. Because, you know, Tiago, he's not the most experienced

2:13.7

coach. You know, last year in the situation that he was in was, you know, there was the first time

2:17.4

he was a head coach in the NBA.

2:19.4

But, you know, now you've seen a full year track record of him getting handed some pretty

2:24.3

difficult circumstances, I would say, both not just with the way that he ended up getting a thrust into the job,

2:30.5

but also with the amount of injuries that they had to deal with.

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