The Original Kid Cairo wrote:
Colonel Angus wrote:
Pretty much every Bulls coach between Jackson & Thibadeau was bad. Scott Skiles was probably the exception.
Skiles was/is also bad. The only difference was that Skiles had a roster of try-hard guys who played way above his coaching. But he grated on them just like he does everyone else, and they just could no longer deal with his weirdness, his assholeness, and his
"throw my hands up in the air and say fuck it" attitude.
My opinion of Skiles really soured when the same thing finally happened in Milwaukee, and when I read here that he won't coach college because he thinks he's too good for a lesser hotel circuit. Like, seriously, dude, you're made for coaching college. Suck it up and live in Nebraska if you have to, and you probably do have to because no one is going to give you an NBA job again.
That said, I don't think it's fair to say the Bulls "played above his coaching." That makes it sound like they did everything themselves and just happened to have a screaming bald man standing around them all the time.
Some of their early overachievement has to be attributed to his coaching.
I agree that he would be better served as a college coach. I'd also concede that perhaps I underrated his x/o ability slightly.
Another thing that always angered me about Skiles was that once he would become restless with a team, he'd pretty much do the
bit, completely absolving himself of any of the accountability. That's a weaselly thing that he does there.
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That name makes me laugh just thinking about it. As for Tim Floyd, when he took over the Bulls after the 1998 lockout, the Bulls were so bad at basketball, there were NBA experts that thought the team he inherited would challenge the 1972-73 76ers for all time futility. Even before the Charlotte Bobcats came along!
