Skiles accepts Milwaukee Job

surprised if Boylan doesn’t join him in Milwaukee.

if Boylan can find MIlwaukee

are now off the hook for some salary owed to Skiles?

I kind of think it will be fun to see how the Bucks respond to him. And now we’ll find out how true it is that all his former players strongly want to kick his new team’s butt, right? Only the Bulls won’t be on the receiving end finally.

There’s a lot of worthless crap on the roster right now, but there’s enough good pieces for Skiles to work with and get them into at least the playoffs. Despite how terrible this year was, I still have a great deal of respect for Skiles and wish he wasn’t staying in the division.

If Yi and whatever their new lottery pick is get more than 20 minutes a game.

this doesn’t mean carlisle is headed for the bulls. i don’t mind him but i don’t think he’s what we need right now.

to receive the full brunt of the ‘Skile’s Scowl’. My money is Charlie Villanueva.

Williams, Bell, Redd, Villanueva and Bogut

Skiles in Milwaukee will be. He can’t run the motion offense with that roster, it’d be a waste of big man talent. They need to dump the ball in to Bogut. They’d be a better fit for the triangle than the motion offense. But they will play better defense next year.

decision for Skiles. He isn’t out of the game for too long. By telling the Bulls that the team needed a new voice, he avoided a lot more losses and therefore his overall coaching record stayed a little closer to .500.

By getting back in it, he may give up a payday from the Bulls, but he also gets a hugely underachieving team, a team more underachieving and more dysfunctional even than his Bulls.

Look for him to instill discipline and better conditioning from day 1. With the shooters and ball handlers on this Milwaukee team, I think Skiles can do a lot of good with a drive and dish offense. Villanueva and Bogut and yes, even Gadzuric are bigs who can run the floor pretty well.

And there is also the fact that he’s in the same division as the Bulls, so there’s some instant motivation for his troops at least 4 times a year, if he can get through to them.

Cripes, remember how much pride the city had in the Bulls under Skiles the few seasons before this one? Given that the Bulls’ problems went way beyond Skiles and involved Wallace and Griffin, I’m guessing Pax does not like the fact that Skiles stayed in the division at all.

“You have to hold guys accountable. I was by no means a defense player myself but I still knew the schemes to play in a team concept. That’s what you have to do. Some guys are not good individual defenders but you have to protect them and hopefully put them in schemes and concepts that they can still have success. And especially if they’re good offensive players that you can still leave them on the floor. “

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=741840

Sounds like a direct ref to Ben Gordon…also, maybe trying to placate Redd.

From the press conference:

Anybody that is going to come to work with enthusiasm, concentrate and play hard will never have a problem with me. I don’t care if they throw the ball in the seats 25 times a game. They’ll be pulled out of the game before they get to 25, of course, but they will never have a problem with me.’

And somewhere, the Noc smiles, remembering that he never had to concentrate as long as he just looked like he was concentrating.