I was looking at my big RSS feed aggregator that I use for my site. I see, "Vinny's Gone - Chicago Tribune" I was so excited, because it was so unexpected, but obviously the right thing to do, but something I didn't think the organization has the balls to do. Click on the link, and it's not. Article title already got changed to: From this perch, I'd say Vinny's out the door Still a good read. http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagot...om-this-perch-id-say-vinnys-out-the-door.html Looks like Vinny's done after this year, if not before. You can book it, Avery Johnson will be the next coach of the Chicago Bulls imo. They will go for experience, and what better guy than a guy who has won a championship, been to the NBA finals as a coach, and has the best winning percentage of all coaches in NBA history? He's from the Gregg Popovich lineage being Pop's extension of the coach on the floor. He also has some work with Don Nelson prior to his head coaching gig. Nelson thought so high of him, that he let him coach some games from time to time. Bulls are definitely going the experienced route, and they are going big time this time around. Avery Johnson publicly lobbied for the job last time around, and I think he will lobby for the job again, and I think the Bulls will agree. I think the Bulls messed up in not getting D'Antoni. It's scary to think what offensive talent like Rose/Gordon could do under D'Antoni, when it's so obvious that we have no system. Rose's efficiency is crap, but his volume is pretty decent. Gordon has a good volume and good efficiency. Just to think what would happen with a great offensive coach! I think Avery Johnson is our man. He is the complete opposite of D'Antoni, and kind of similar to Skiles, who we had success with, with this group, but Johnson has experienced more success than Skiles in the NBA. The only sticking point with Avery Johnson might be Ben Gordon, since based on his ESPN gig, it seems like Johnson is pretty high on Gordon (as are a lot of announcers around the league, and a lot of the ESPN and TNT guys during our games on there). I think that was the sticking point with D'Antoni last summer. Reinsdorf said that Gordon might not be here (best player on the team not be here...best scorer not be here...did Reinsdorf really think D'Antoni would sign after that was said?). I think that is what D'Antoni alludes to when he says he liked the Knicks plan better.
Heh, if Steve Rosenbloom can figure it out, I think anyone can. My guess is Avery thinks a bit too highly of himself to be favored by Pax and Jerry. Public lobbying is bad character.
I'm surprised that Rosenbloom is still around, he's terrible. He has another article out today, attacking Ben Gordon, because Gordon talked about the Bulls making the playoffs.
He does suck. Not that it took any special insight to say that Pax’s refusal to say anything amounted to saying a lot. Whose mom didn’t tell them “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”? Nonetheless, it doesn’t exactly go toward boosting VDN’s stature in the locker room, which I do see as a problem.
I think it's just a front office ploy to say, "The team is a mess, so we had to let Gordon walk" type of thing, by letting the locker room disintegrate, and letting Vinny's coaching get dumber and dumber. But we'll see. There's still a chance that Hinrich gets traded at the deadline.
FWIW, Pax talked playoffs during Skiles' first year. I think we won 23 games. Skiles made it about 4 seasons with us.
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/basketball/bulls/1393508,CST-SPT-bull23.article Oh shit....this kind of talk would make you think it's close to the end. Vinnie says everyone does the same thing anyway. Do you think he said this in his interview? Oh, and Vinnie is proud of his practices and his assistant's experience?
After seeing the look on his face during the game tonight (lost) there is no doubt in my mind he will be fired before the season is through.
I can only hope you're right. Avery Johnson will be the next coach of the Chicago Bulls. He should already be the coach. Him or D'Antoni that is, but after D'Antoni was hired, and Jeff Van Gundy took his name out of the running, it was clear who should have been the coach. I think Avery could really shape up our team, and make them a 50 win team just with the talent already on the roster. But that's not a championship team, but it's a step in the right direction. We'd still need to find a way to get a Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire, etc. in the front court if we want to win a championship.
