All teams lose their franchise player for 3 consecutive seasons after coming within a series of winning a title?
Bulls should explore trading Noah, I just don't see how he really fits with Gasol. Mirotic is too good to be playing under 20 minutes a game. A Mirotic-Gasol-Gibson front court makes a lot more sense.
i wonder if thibs has a chance at the pelicans or timberwolves jobs. i would rather not have him turn a young athletic team into a defensive beast in the western conference.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bulls officials expect to name Fred Hoiberg as head coach, barring any unforeseen snags, source says. <a href="http://t.co/BB1Gfv8iwT">http://t.co/BB1Gfv8iwT</a></p>— Howard Beck (@HowardBeck) <a href="https://twitter.com/HowardBeck/status/604453020802420736">May 30, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Someone has to go. It cant be pau aftr he signed for such a discount. It cant be miro with him being young cheao and wuth potential. So its between noah and taj. but both niko and pau are bad defenders. Noah right now has terrible value. He may not even pass the other teams physical.
If he was so great he wouldnt have lost the locker room. Thibs is a great X and Os coach but in todays NBA you cant have a guy who will demand strenuous workouts and practices from hell, just look at the way he ran Luol Deng and Joakim Noah to the ground and tell me how thats a good coach. DMorey gets a lot of flak for treating players like assets, but assets get proctected and taken care of. Thibs treats players like disposable pawns, as if you can get guys like Noah and Deng just by walking out to the street.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thibodeau-Pelicans update: both parties r showing interest in each other, I'm now told. Not 2 say coaching job is his, but things hv changed</p>— Peter Vecsey (@PeterVecsey1) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeterVecsey1/status/604668248660045824">May 30, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
You don't when up 25+ points with 5 mins left. That is indefensible. You put in Nazr Mohammed and 4 smalls (or just 5 smalls). Nobody has condoned how the Bulls handled this. That isn't even a point of discussion. Thibs made some mistakes in Chicago and suffered a severe backlash for it. If he doesn't improve his relationship skills with players and management, history will repeat itself at his next job. IMO, the Bulls actually did Thibs a favor because they made him a martyr and that's what most people are talking about.
On offense, Thibs is anything but a "great X and Os coach". Thibs is an effort coach in that he squeezes every ounce of juice out of his players. That is his strength (and weakness).
No coach is perfect for sure. But a lot of the " thibs causes injuries to his players by overplaying them" is because of the bulls fo campaign. I mean now u are talking about playing noah 5 minutes more. Sure no perfect but it would not have been such a big deal. Its just five minutes. If another coach had done it noone would care.
No. Correction: I mentioned one instance. There have been many others observed and obviously a boatload more I haven't seen since I don't watch the Bulls often nowadays. Whether you want to admit it or not, Thibs is at fault here. The Bulls FO handled this very poorly but I can't blame them for firing him.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fred Hoiberg will be in Chicago today to finalize a deal to coach the Bulls, a source told <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSSports">@CBSSports</a>. Press conference likely tomorrow.</p>— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaryParrishCBS/status/605380883126886400">June 1, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
