Hoiberg has already been hired.

Hoiberg has already been hired.

Hopefully another bad Iowa St hire leads to GarPax being fired.

Not many people get to hire and fire 4 coaches in 12 years and keep their jobs.

The story about Thibs not wanting to hire an assistant coach to coach offense is but another indictment of him. It's also another reason for him to be fired. It was painful watching the Bulls offense this yr. That offense was constructed by Thibs. If he was too stubborn or stupid to see that he needs help in constructing an offense then he needs to go.

Do I need to introduce you to one Elgin Baylor

The Bulls fired his top assistant and best friend (who's coaching in the Finals ) and expected him to hire a Bulls guy. I'm sure Doug didn't call on his own.

I especially like the spin from Johnson that Collins volunteered himself to Thibodeau, with no prompting or discussion whatsoever with the front office. That certainly doesn't set off my bullshit detector!

Thibs had to have a good laugh at that. Regardless of if you like Thibs or not this front office is weird. Jerry must be dead.

Whether it was Collins or not he should have hired someone to help with the offense. Please don't say that the offense improved from last year either. They had one of the worst offenses in the league last yr. Anything would be an improvement but the improvement had to do far more with the addition of Gasol, Rose, Mirotic, plus the improvement of Butler. It was not due to Thibs becoming an offensive guru. That's for sure.

There was a really funny quote from Paxson about their minute restrictions being "common sense"
Which, of course, doesn’t explain Paxson’s lack of common sense minutes restrictions over his first dozen years of running the team.

To be honest, I’ve come to the conclusion that Paxson is much less Notre Dame smarty-pants and much more dumb jock than I used to. If you look at his history, he’s basically gone for trends over and over again.

1. His first iteration was building a team based on defense and role players in the Pistons mold. He was all about "accountability" and "building a culture of winning"

2. That flamed out and he attempted to go in the complete opposite direction by hiring Mike D’Antoni. D’Antoni is mainly famous for being the exact opposite of the philosophy Paxson had spent years preaching.

3. And of course, he up and quit because being a full-time GM was too stressful.

4. The ultimate hire, VDN, was basically at Doug Collins’ suggestion, and after Paxson assaulted him (so much for the accountability), the next hire, Thibs, was basically Reinsdorf’s decision. Pax was pretty quiet the last few years, mainly emerging to talk about how they valued playing hard and full throttle all the time. And how preparation and playing hard translated into the playoffs.

5. Then, we’ve got this year’s Pax, who once again has done a heel turn and thinks its "common sense" to rest up when the players feel like it. Not because they’re actually hurt, but… because that’ll keep them fresh and unprepared for the high-stress playoffs.

Basically, the guy has completely changed his tune several times. If there’s any sort of core philosophy driving his thoughts on basketball, I’d like to know what it is.

Do I need to introduce you to one Elgin Baylor

Thibs had to have a good laugh at that. Regardless of if you like Thibs or not this front office is weird. Jerry must be dead.

I wouldn't hire a Bulls guy either after they fired my best friend and top assistant. That being said Doug would have been a great hire.

Saying that the Bulls brought in anti Thibs guys this year is wrong. He went out and helped recruit Marshmelo. Marshmelo has played defense only a handful of times his entire career. Thibs also recruited Gasol. He knew Mirotic was coming over too.

Thibs never had an issue with guys that weren't great defensively. His belief was he could coach them up. In years past he was able to. This year he didn't have as much consistent success. Not sure if it was because the Bulls were undermining him or not.

Jerry is weird. I think he likes internal struggle and soap opera type shit with his teams.