Ahhhhh the whole " we all need to be pulling in the same direction" tripe.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Consistently gets outcoached? Even this year he had a Derrick Rose that was 2 games back from a knee injury and a Noah who was playing on 1 leg. Taj clearly peaked the season before or he was also injured. Throw in Gasol's injury and the suckage from Brooks and Mirotic and this wasn't a great Bulls team. They still should have won but let's not get carried away.

Thibs is considered a top 5 coach and will be great at his next stop. There aren't many coaches better than him.

Paxson starting to look a lot like Ben Kinglsey.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I'm a basketball idiot as I very casually follow the league, but why would any sought after reputable coaching candidate ever come to Chicago again after seeing this front office just go scorched earth on Thibs? The Bulls appear childish and petty today.

Paxson starting to look a lot like Ben Kinglsey.

i think that's Montell Williams

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I'm a basketball idiot as I very casually follow the league, but why would any sought after reputable coaching candidate ever come to Chicago again after seeing this front office just go scorched earth on Thibs? The Bulls appear childish and petty today.

He who chokes one coach chokes the world entire.

He got the Thibs hire right and Skiles was a decent coach. He bombed on the Del Negro hire. I don't know how he wrecked the Bulls when most of the analysts believed that the Bulls are a talented team. I don't care about the behind the scenes stuff. That's for the Cowley and K.C. types. The team that they trotted out was good enough to make it to the finals. A guy like Thibs would never have made the moves that Kerr made. Kerr made two personnel moves that paid off big time this yr. He placed Green and Barnes in the starting lineup this yr. Thibs would never have made that move.

On paper and in theory they don't get you closer to a championship. No one ever suggested that these moves would get Golden State closer to a championship but they did. Iggy and David Lee were higher paid and more established yet Kerr immediately made the adjustment and never looked back. In Lee's case he was injured before the season and never returned to the starting lineup. Lee is now out of the rotation though he was considered a key cog before the season. That's an adjustment Thibs would never make. He would play it safe and go with his vets.

Yes it is.

When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.

Consistently gets outcoached? Even this year he had a Derrick Rose that was 2 games back from a knee injury and a Noah who was playing on 1 leg. Taj clearly peaked the season before or he was also injured. Throw in Gasol's injury and the suckage from Brooks and Mirotic and this wasn't a great Bulls team. They still should have won but let's not get carried away.

Thibs is considered a top 5 coach and will be great at his next stop. There aren't many coaches better than him.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Because there are only 30 of these very lucrative jobs.

That works for shitty coaches and first timers, but not so much for quality coaches that have more than one option. Not that it matters, because Gar/Pax will never hire a coach with a real pedigree, just people they can push around.

they don't want established guys. they want guys they can control.

Right, but you're more likely to get another Del Negro than anyone worth a damn. And it's a vicious circle. Once a guy has success he's no longer grateful for the chance. You never hear Phil thanking Jerry Krause for pulling him out of the driver's seat of the Albany Patroons bus.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

No you do not.

The real Phil Jackson autobiography will be done when he is finished in the NBA. And it will not be pretty either.

Any established coach or any coach that actually wants to improve their career and coaching rep isn't going to touch the Bulls with a ten-foot clown pole.

You want to come to the Bulls? You better be a good little robot puppet or Pax and the Boyz are going to ruin you and make your life a living hell.

A bunch of amateurs.

What's so bad about trying to suggest to your coach that playing injury-prone starters 40+ minutes a game in January is counterproductive?

Ethan Skolnik agrees.

Ethan J. Skolnick ‏@EthanJSkolnick
Why would any coach take the Bulls job after reading this press release on Thibodeau's firing? http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/tomthibodeau528 …

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Except that wasn't the issue. The Bulls bought the groceries and hired a good chef but still wanted to tell the chef how to cook. When he objected they fired his top assistant and decided to assassinate his character and bring into question his ability as a coach. Even today they didn't want to give him credit for anything.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Why wasn't they asked about Fred Hoiberg.

Except that wasn't the issue. The Bulls bought the groceries and hired a good chef but still wanted to tell the chef how to cook. When he objected they fired his top assistant and decided to assassinate his character and bring into question his ability as a coach. Even today they didn't want to give him credit for anything.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.