This is worst than high school! This has got to be the weirdest coaching hire i’ve ever witnessed. On the plus side, I have been impressed by Paxson’s ability to stay the course, his course, and not waver from what he has been saying all along, that he is not hiring someone until he is positive they are the right fit for this specific job. The huge neagtive now is that the bulls are just looking like amateurs, many would say that has been the case for the past 4 weeks.
at the end of the day, however, i am still with pax, and think he should hire who he feels is right for the job, and not make a decision due to outsdie influences. and remember, he may ultimately want rambis or shaw, fingers crossed for shaw, but his hands are tied since they are in the finals, and won’t be done for a couple of weeks. and if that is the case, what is pax supposed to do? doesnt anybody else feel thats probably whats going on?

Jim Boylan is our coach for 6 months and we go into the off-season with NO PLAN?

would be a fireable offense in any other business organization… but this DA BULLS we’re talking about.

that none of the Chicago papers reported on this today?

All we got from KC was another gem about Reinsdorf and his stinking veto power

negotiating with Paxson and Reinsdorf on Rose’s contract?

Lucky for the three of them the rookie scale wins out, but if these three actually had to negotiate a contract for Rose it would be very interesting.

I have no idea what he’d want to do offensively or defensively.
All I know is that
1. He seems to get ok results given the talent he had to work with
2. He was the guy who was sending envelopes full of cash to recruits at UK twenty years ago.

My memory is that his skills were outweighed by the task. He did not appear to have the respect of players, had no clue about rotations, did not have the team prepared to close out games. He seemed an ameteur in a pro league.

I grow weary of the prognostication and rumor-mongering, it’s not even fun anymore. Paxson basically turned what could have been the most exciting Bulls offseason in over a decade (I haven’t been this excited since the summer of 1995 about a Bulls season) into the “Due Dillgence Disaster”, basically making a mockery of the Bulls organization.

I thought Casey got a bum deal in Minnesota, and the fact that Wittman took over and promptly blew as a head coach just vindicated that Casey was doing at least a decent job of keeping KG sane and Ricky Davis from killing someone. Does that make him better than Doug, or possibly Flip? I’d go ahead and say no. Why not hire the best retread out there and acquire Flip, if all we’re doing is just looking for a retread?

I want happy, joyous game threads reacting to wins verses our jump off the cliff ones we had this year. I took the punge too many a night last year.

This is all about Reinsdorf and his need to feed his enormous ego. You would think he’d be past that stage by now. Pax is simply an emasculated yes-man, with no authority to do anything.

Picture this coaching search goin like the Flavor of Love show lol….its like 15 coaches standing there…and paxson walks up wearin a headband(ben wallace’s lol) Jerry Reinsdorf is playing the role of big rick and he is holding clipboard chains instead of the clocks….the first show would haveMik D’Antoni and Avery Johnson be the first ones eliminated LOL!!!

From the Herald

“Something that I’ve always tried to do as a coach, whether it was recruiting in college, whether it was coaching offense and defense in Seattle—is to make players accountable,” Casey said at his introductory news conference.

“That should be an easy thing to do, but sometimes it’s a day-to-day task in practice. I think this is a league where you have to be consistent in what you say and how you say it, and players will know what’s expected of them.”

a post cause i’m sure one will be up shortly, but K.C. Johnson is reporting on chicagosorts.com that Collins to the Bulls is over with and includes comments from Collins in there. This pretty much just makes me hate the Bulls organization even more than I already did, which is tough.

from what i just read, it sounded like the more collins thought about it, the more he was having second thoughts

Actually, is “candidate” even the right term, or does that imply to strongly that they’re seriously under consideration for a job that supposedly will be filled this decade?

How long until Pax announces that Pete Meyers will be filling in as interim coach while the search for a permanent hire continues?