Bulls Beat Writers: Thibs to be traded or let go this summer

Great organization.

Not!

 

Thibs was the fastest to win 100 games as head coach, and I think they said during the game last night that he has the best record of all coaches in history for the first five or six seasons as head coach.

It sucks if our dysfunctional management has egos so big they can't keep him here forever.

 

Very good post! My thoughts as well although I have never stated them as well.

You said the all the correct things. All too often we went into the playoffs spent, injured due to his need to win every regular season game. I am tired of it.

 

Jackson has always coached very good teams, but he is good, very good in managing egos of his star players.

 

Some bulls fans on twitter mentioned Pippen. There is no proof to support

Another name...the mayor. Supposedly he told Iowa State this is his last year.

 

At some point, the coach gets fired. That's just how it works. IMO, the Bulls are losing a real asset.

Let's hope GarPax don't make another Del Negro over Thibs decision.

Would a solid, experienced coach even want to come here, given Paxson's minutes controlling ways from on high? This minutes thing was an issue wth Pax - Del Negro and Pax - Thibs. Its funny that Thibs gets labeled as the guy who plays guys too many minutes, when Paxson actually physically attacked Del Negro over the same thing.

In a professional organization, how does a manager still have his job after physically attacking the head coach?

As a long time Bulls fan, hiring a decent college coach from Iowa State with no experience just seems like poking a pointy stick at the karma gods, but that's another thing.

 

And that is the dysfunctional, nasty nature of the Bulls org. It makes the news for a reason.

 

Players and coaches come and go. No championships. The thing that remains constant is the problem, not the players and coaches.

Organizations don't even compete for championships.

 

Funny thing is Thibs dragged out signing that extension. I wonder why he didn't jump all over it because he was so in love with the guys who'd be his bosses.

 

Damn straight.

This year's Bulls have not been the plucky group of overachievers that had been the hallmark of the Thibodeau regime. Nor have they been the defensive demons we'd come to expect from a Thibodeau-coached squad. While the media continuously bangs the drum for their favored narrative of the Forman-Thibodeau rift, they might want to occasionally look at what's happening on the court.

 

This guy speaks the truth.

 

Speaking of Van Gundy...

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/jon-greenberg/post/_/id/687/van-gundy-sounds-off-on-thibs

CHICAGO -- With about nine-and-a-half minutes left in the third quarter of the Los Angeles Clippers' 96-86 win over the Chicago Bulls, ESPN’s play-by-play man Mike Breen started to introduce a juicy storyline: The perceived conflict between Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau and his general manager, Gar Forman, and vice president of basketball operations, John Paxson.

Breen first asked Mark Jackson to speak a little about the matter, to set up the main reason he was bringing this topic up on national TV: His partner Jeff Van Gundy, a good friend and former boss of Thibodeau, had famously inserted himself into the story this season.

But in classic Bulls fashion, an injury, this time Jimmy Butler's hyperextending his left elbow while on defense on a DeAndre Jordan screen, delayed things for a few minutes.

After a commercial break, Breen asked Van Gundy if he could discuss his previous comments, which occurred on-air in a January game between the Bulls and Dallas Mavericks and then this past week, to a Chicago media writer.

Van Gundy told Ed Sherman, writing for the Chicago Tribune, that he was asked by Thibodeau's agent to "tone it down" after the Mavericks game, while noting Forman yelled at him at the Dallas game.

“Can you speak about it without sleeping with the fishes?” Breen said.

Van Gundy was happy to, and during his conversation with Breen, the ESPN cameras cut to Forman and Paxson, with the latter staring intently at his phone.

“What I said previously, I stand by,” Van Gundy said. “I think, over the course of time, they’ve been unfriendly and they haven’t been pro-coach.

“I think you go all the way back to Doug Collins’ time here, then Phil Jackson, and go on and on and on. So I don’t really feel the need to reiterate too much. That’s what I said. That’s what I believe.”

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"John Paxson, to be fair, said he thought what I said was ‘pathetic,’” Van Gundy said in reference to a different Chicago Tribune story. “He was so mad at me I thought I had tradedLaMarcus Aldridge for Tyrus Thomas and not him.”

The Bulls, naturally, aren’t pleased with Van Gundy’s comments, though Paxson declined to comment when reached by text message Sunday afternoon.



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"While you’re talking Tom Thibodeau, he loves his team, he loves his players,” Breen said. “He wants to coach this team, and he loves this squad."

"He loves -- he absolutely loves -- the city, the fans and his players," Van Gundy said. “You know how ridiculous it is we’re even talking about a coach that’s won I think 65 percent, I think it’s the fifth-highest winning percentage all-time for guys who have coached five years or more. Do you know how silly it is? But it’s obviously true, or they would’ve come out and said it’s not true at all.”

The Bulls, though, believe they’ve supported Thibodeau at every stop. He might disagree.