Scott Skiles reminds me of a crusty old hockey guy.

Skiles is beginning to remind me of Tim Floyd--a coach so lost in his own abstractions that he doesn't realize he's losing his team. The Bulls simply aren't playing hard for him anymore.

Skiles is beginning to remind me of Tim Floyd--a coach so lost in his own abstractions that he doesn't realize he's losing his team. The Bulls simply aren't playing hard for him anymore.

Hyperbole defined.

Skiles took an 0-9 to the playoffs.

Yes, they've gotten off to a bad start and the short-term doesn't look great, but to say he's lost his team to the degree of the worst coach in Bulls' history is absurd.

I don't know that I buy the "they don't play hard for him anymore" excuse. When does it come down to "they don't play hard because they don't want to because they're overpaid and lazy"?

The Giants have turned things around and Tom Coughlin is a total asshole. I think it comes down to do they have the drive/will/hunger and/or have they gotten better at their positions?

Wallace sure as hell hasn't, Tyrus Thomas hasn't, and Luol Deng really hasn't either.

It's certainly possible that the Bulls will turn it around, but I don't think it's too early to sound the alarms. The Bears stink but were mostly given the benefit of the doubt until at least week 4 that they were still a good team. The Sox were still given a shot into late May this year even though they'd been bad since the previous All-star break. Sure, some people saw early that these teams weren't good, but for the most part people kept saying these teams had too much talent to be that bad, but they were. The 2006-07 Bulls may be just like those 2 teams.

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/basketball/bulls/640527,CST-SPT-bull08.article

I don't have a problem with them......we always want it both ways. We hate the soundbites, but then when a player speaks his mind, we attack him for doing it. Skiles said, "Again, it probably should be somebody else speaking for the group.'' That is the point, the Bulls don't have anyone else who is a vocal leader on the team. So why doesn't Skiles say "What Joakim said is TRUE."? That is the point. What he said was TRUE. Who cares if he is a rookie. It says more about the leadership or lack thereof on this team that it HAS TO BE A ROOKIE to state the obvious.

The bulls are the opposite of the White Sox. The White Sox were an old group that had already peaked and were falling apart hitting and pitching. The Bulls main players are all really young except for Joe Smith and Ben Wallace, and its rare for 4th and 5th year guys to all od a sudden go on a sharp decline over an entire season when they had each been improving consistently since they came in the league.

The bulls are the opposite of the White Sox. The White Sox were an old group that had already peaked and were falling apart hitting and pitching. The Bulls main players are all really young except for Joe Smith and Ben Wallace, and its rare for 4th and 5th year guys to all od a sudden go on a sharp decline over an entire season when they had each been improving consistently since they came in the league.

Whatever the case, for you to suggest that Skiles couldn't lose the team is the absurdity here. If you want to engage in confrontation, make sure you make sense before doing so, jackass.

And where exactly did I suggest that it wasn't possible. Read what I wrote. I simply challenged your comparison to Floyd, which is absurd.

Jackass? Confrontation? It's getting to be weekly that you need to be reminded to relax. You're over the top use of the English is amusing, but you've got to drop the "I'm better than everyone else here" attitude, man.

And where exactly did I suggest that it wasn't possible. Read what I wrote. I simply challenged your comparison to Floyd, which is absurd.

Jackass? Confrontation? It's getting to be weekly that you need to be reminded to relax. You're over the top use of the English is amusing, but you've got to drop the "I'm better than everyone else here" attitude, man.

NSJ,
I hate to question YOU'RE use THE English in that sentence, but it's not in the same class as the Midge. Northwestern education sure ain't what it used to be

I do this so frequently that it's really a mute point.