I think this sums up how many of us feel about Thibs - he's certainly a good coach, but he could be a great coach if he would just learn that sometimes we all need to accept that the world is constantly changing. And that he needs to change with it. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-house-that-thibs-built/ I think Tom Thibodeau is the best coach in the league. I’d like him to coach the Bulls for the rest of his coaching career. But he has to make a change. He has to become part of the new NBA — the new world. I know. It’s terrible. He can hold on to his core principles of selflessness and relentless defense and still make some changes. He can have easier practices for veterans, rest his star players — like Popovich does throughout the season — and even sit guys when the game is out of reach. He can change and still have it his way. My fear, though, is that, like Jack Arnold, Thibs hasn’t changed. And that, sadly, he won’t. Like I said, this is not a piece about Derrick Rose’s first knee injury, or his second, or his third. This is not about Joakim Noah’s plantar fasciitis or ankle injuries. This is not about the fact that Jimmy Butler, 25, who averaged 38.9 minutes per game this season, is starting to look like a character from The Walking Dead. It is about times changing. And the need to change with them, whether you want to or not.
You realize the author is a sitcom actor. He does play in the Sunday Men's Basketball League in L.A. though.
It was a fun article, particularly the Wonder Years reminiscences, but the author needs to explain to me how, if everything negative he wrote about Thibodeau is true, he still thinks Thibodeau is the best coach in the NBA. IMO, he can be the author's favorite coach, but not the best.
