Turning the page, The Next Chapter: The Official Chicago Bulls 2019-20 Season Thread

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Brozay said:
this is the best they have looked all season
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In all honesty, it appeared like the refs had money on OKC towards the end or something, because the calls or blown calls were atrocious
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They should have never blew that game. Boylen taking Wendell out in that situation had me like :skip:

Stacy was holding back shytting on that sub as best as he could. The CP3 timeout being awarded after he was tied up by 2 different Bulls players made me think that the refs' families were in danger if they didn't give every call to OKC since they got back in the game.

...but these Ls are so numbing that I don't even care to get mad over awful calls like that anymore. :laugh: How do they go back to review the Wendell jumpball foul and clearly see Adams grab him initially and not change the call?

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Yea I wasn’t even gonna bother watching this but I had to see how they collapsed. Kris Dunn is one of the worst rotation players in the league. Complete disaster on offense. I think he drove like 4 times to the basket in the fourth and fell three times. Boylen is just plain stupid. I’ve never seen a coach have no feel or lack of adjustments like this. How many possessions did he let the switching big get cooked by CP3 before he realized what was happening? Why take out WCJ on that last possession when Adams was at the line? But pax says practice is great
 
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Why the Chicago Bulls won’t fire Jim Boylen despite him being the worst coach in the NBA

Before Boylen became the most overmatched head coach in the NBA, he was one of the most overmatched head coaches in college basketball at Utah. While Boylen’s bosses at the NCAA level eventually realized their error and ate the money required to fire him, Bulls management has done nothing but give him unwavering support amid another lost season.
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This was supposed to be the year the Bulls stopped living in the basement of the NBA. Boylen and his boss, long-time Chicago executive John Paxson, publicly set the bar for themselves at the onset of the season by saying their team should compete for a playoff berth. The Bulls didn’t make any splashy moves in free agency, but they did improve the overall talent on the roster by signing capable veterans. They expected development from their prized young core. In a weak Eastern Conference, playoff dreams weren’t delusion, they were a reasonable expectation in year three of a rebuild.
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Reports of the alleged player mutiny in Chicago should have felt familiar to Boylen. When he was at Utah, he saw seven players transfer out of the program over a two-year period. His current players in Chicago aren’t lucky enough to have that option.

Boylen has held marathon practices. He’s created a farcical “leadership council”. He’s made his players run wind sprints and do pushups in a way that would be more befitting of high schoolers than professionals. He has lost at a record pace, owning the lowest winning percentage among active head coaches with at least a full season of experience. The Bulls still decided to give him a contract extension, refusing to do a coaching search to lock themselves into the least expensive option possible after firing Hoiberg.

Along the way, Boylen has become the walking image of old-school delusion. He’s justified losses by quoting “Field of Dreams”. He said his team’s goal was to average 35 assists per game, which has literally never been done. He said that there was no shame in losing the league-worst Warriorson the road, and then lost to them at home again nine days later. He has spoke of spirit and soul but never adjustments. He is such a bad communicator that management has told him he can no longer speak to the media about injuries.
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Boylen’s Bulls have the third-worst offense in the NBA. On defense, his ultra aggressive scheme to blitz ball handers in the pick-and-roll forces steals but sacrifices easy layups and corner threes to any team smart enough to find the obvious loopholes. His Bulls can’t rebound, can’t finish at the rim, can’t make threes. Boylen hasn’t offered a palatable solution to fix any of it.
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Paxson has been at this job for 17 years, and the only constant in his run is his inability to get along with his coaches. He once reportedly choked Vinny Del Negro in the locker room during a dispute over Joakim Noah’s minutes. He was shut out by Tom Thibodeau after firing his top assistant Ron Adams, with his coach locking himself in his office and refusing to communicate with management. He fired Scott Skiles on Christmas Eve and fired Hoiberg while his top players were injured.
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Paxson’s record with talent evaluation is even more dispiriting. His trade of Jimmy Butler was unforgivable given the underwhelming package he got in return, and it’s the reason the Bulls are where they’re at right now. He had Spencer Dinwiddie in training camp but chose to keep Michael Carter-Williams and Isaiah Canaan over him. He has routinely failed to make trades to improve the roster and has never signed an impact free agent. He is still blaming Derrick Rose’s injury issues all these years later. This is a feckless executive who has surrounded himself with ‘yes men’ like his brother Jim and like Collins, whose time in the league should have passed long ago.

Paxson hit one jump shot in the 1993 NBA Finals and got a job for life. The vast majority of those who have ever worked under him have seen a man impossible to get along with whose feel for the modern game is non-existence. Yet he has had unparalleled job security in this industry, mostly because his owner doesn’t care enough about his world class franchise to make a change.
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These problems go all the way to the top: Reinsdorf is too loyal, too lazy, and too cheap to fire Paxson. Paxson knows firing Boylen in-season would only be admitting failure. Paxson also knows he likely won’t ever find another head coach so open to his ideas.
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The G.O.D II said:
Yea I wasn’t even gonna bother watching this but I had to see how they collapsed. Kris Dunn is one of the worst rotation players in the league. Complete disaster on offense. I think he drove like 4 times to the basket in the fourth and fell three times. Boylen is just plain stupid. I’ve never seen a coach have no feel or lack of adjustments like this. How many possessions did he let the switching big get cooked by CP3 before he realized what was happening? Why take out WCJ on that last possession when Adams was at the line? But pax says practice is great
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I don't know if anyone on here ever watched the HBO show silicon valley. But there was a character named big head. And he was completely inept at everything but would constantly fall up into promotions.

And this summarizes Boylan's career. He's never succeeded anywhere as a head coach on any level, yet he keeps being promoted.

On j-hood's ESPN show yesterday, Jonathan suspects that boylen snitched on hoiberg to garpax last year and suggested that he was too soft and he could instill some discipline prior to Fred getting fired.
 
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beaniemac said:
I don't know if anyone on here ever watched the HBO show silicon valley. But there was a character named big head. And he was completely inept at everything but would constantly fall up into promotions.

And this summarizes Boylan's career. He's never succeeded anywhere as a head coach on any level, yet he keeps being promoted.

On j-hood's ESPN show yesterday, Jonathan suspects that boylen snitched on hoiberg to garpax last year and suggested that he was too soft and he could instill some discipline prior to Fred getting fired.
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The way pax would describe it or spin it is

Pax :This wasnt a case of snitching, I raised a concern that fred was to soft with the guys , jimbo only agreed with me :wtb:

You could call it a meeting of the minds... :leostare:

Theres no quick fix here :troll:
 
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Wizards blew a 17 point 4th quarter lead in like 5 mins :pachaha:

Edit damn beal just hit the go ahead bucket
 
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