Almost like an important political speech, where he’s got to start winning over all of the skeptical Bulls fans. I know I’ll be listening intently.

Paxson gave him a great opportunity, and if he doesn’t succeed, he will get job offers elsewhere as another token retread.

Pax is the guy with reputation on the line. No one, and I mean no one will forget how dumb he looked during the D’Antoni/Collins saga, and he won’t earn much forgiveness like he did over the Gasol/KG trades. Maybe it doesn’t matter because he’s so buddy-buddy with Reinsdorf, but I would imagine his job should be depending heavily on the new coach and #1 pick’s success.

I remember him as a player. I loved when he came into the game against the Bulls because he basically was on self-check with only slight coverage needed.

In addition, Paxson has showed he has this tendency for attempting to hit the home run with unknown’s or little knowns.

1) Noc
2) Thabo
3) Tyrus
4) Kryppy
5) Eddie basden
6) OnCurry
Actually I can name probably another 8 or ten guys, so can you if you review all of his draft picks. VDN is no different. He’s a large gamble against hugh odds.

All of the other risky picks/trades above didn’t work, so what would make me believe VDN will ever work? Paxson keeps trying to be the next Krause and find the next phil jackson? And Paxson continues to fall on every step….

Matt was right to point out that if this inane search has gone on this long what further possible harm could come from waiting it out to talk to Lakers or Celtics assistants cough Thibodeau cough.

That said, it will be nice to get this aspect of the off-season finished with and let the team focus on deciding between two players. Because again, with all that misinformation out there Paxson might actually be leaning towards OJ Mayo and even then he might not be.

From a McGraw article.

Suns broadcaster Al McCoy, who worked with Del Negro for three years, suggested during an appearance on WSCR 670-AM that Del Negro has already thought about building a veteran coaching staff.

“I said, ‘Vinny, it’s going to be tough,’ ” McCoy said. “He said, ‘What isn’t?’ And I said, ‘Well, how about the lack of experience will keep haunting you?’ And he said, ‘I already have a couple of the top assistants, veteran assistants in the league that want to come with me.’ So maybe that could be the answer to the experience factor.”

If he has some good assistants then I’m not as worried about the experience.

It came after the finals, and after Pax had sat down for a while with Tom Thib, and sat down a second time with Brian Shaw, and Kurt Rambis. I think that if you like one of those coaches the exact same amount as you like Vinny, then you hire the one who just coached in the NBA finals.

Oh yeah, and even though I wasn’t excited about either of them, he probably should have interviewed Flip and Avery as well. He is the GM of this organization, he was supposed to be open-minded, and he chose not to interview those two qualified coaches. He could have spent two hours with them to confirm that he didn’t agree with there plans for this team.

Vinny could be great. But I think it would make everybody more confident if Pax really did interview all the qualified candidates and then said, “Vinny is my guy”

The fact that the job was Collins’, and then Dwayne Casey was the next interview, and the reports were that he was the favorite, then Vinny interviewed and the reports were that he was the favorite… it seemed like either Pax or Jerry just decided to hire somebody. Like Pax said “Fuck it, I’m just going to offer the job to the next guy to walk into my office…”

VDN hiring is only a rumor! If not, then I believe this will have serious negative implications

1. whatever he said to pax and jr in his interview seriously impressed them, enough so to separate him from casey, person and anyone else the bulls could have been entertaining hiring.
2. based on what really impressed pax and jr when they initially started interviewing candidates, del negro probably has proposed a philosophy similar to d’antoni’s. the bulls could have waited for the finals to end, or go through more candidates, but i’m guessing del negro’s thoughts were reminiscent of d’antoni’s in order to justify the ‘quick’ decision.

granted, i’m giving pax and jr the benefit of the doubt here, but i think assuming the best is the only real outlook to have going into this new situation. (obviously, i’m a d’antoni fan.)

MarketMaker you just wrote what I was going to type. Brilliant!!!!

Perfect analysis MarketMaker You wrote what I was thinking.

YET!!!

However, i wanted to state a reason for selecting Vinny that paxson might have thought up of. since vinny got talent for pheonix and was a scout, maybe he won paxson over by telling paxson he got alot of good players, and he could help pick the better of the two (beasley or rose) for the next draft and would know how to develop all talent and have them mesh. That seems to me a big thing for the bulls to do this upcoming season. Have all players who are on the roster play to thier fullest in an enviroment where they can succeed with better lineups….cuz this team has talent. Maybe vinny being an ex scout, and ex gm, and ex radio personel has the abililty to see those things in players and rosters…and see thier talent levels. Maybe….

D-Rose should be the focus and Pax should hire somene who maximizes his talents. We have a roster that is ready to run. We have Gordon, Deng, Thabo, Tyrus, Noah, Gooden, Noce and soon we will have Rose. We can package Kirk, Larry and a future pick for possibly J. O’ Neal or E. Brand. We should also test the waters for Okefor or Aldridge.

I was just watching ESPN news and they had Tim Legler give his opinion, not that his opinion really matters or anything, on the Bulls coaching hire. To my suprise, rather than taking the easy route and making cracks about the Bulls hiring a guy that has never coached before, he went the entire opposite way. He totally loved the move. He went as far as to credit Pax for “thinking outside the box”, and that Vinny would be the perfect guy to guide a young team and presumably a young point guard. Just thought it was interesting, I woulda bet my life that this was gonna get universally trashed, especially at the boo-ya network.

Or what is almost done is almost done. Can’t say much about it besides that we simply won’t know how right or wrong it is until we see it play out a little further. No amount of worrying is going to help at this point and unlike someone with experience we can’t even talk about how previous players worked with the new coach. The good news is that there isn’t anything besides the draft this summer now I was really not expecting the Bulls getting the number 1 draft pick and having such an endless coaching search. It was supposed to be a quiet summer.

This is a great deal for both parties, becasue if he sucks you don’t lose too much, but if he is good you can always re-work the deal. I hope this works out, I think Pax need to move on to the draft before he makes a mistake and draft Brook Lopez.

To say there’s no reason to preemptively dislike VDH, I mean. there was no reason to preemptovely dislike Jim Boylan. The very fact that there is no reason to preemptively dislike him (cause he has no coaching background I guess), is the very reason not to like him.
The fact that a guy hasn’t been around long enough to tarnish his nonexistant coaching record is not exactly a sign from the heavens. This guy is in way over his head. And whether or not he turns into the next Phil Jackson will not change that. There’s no way he’s ready to walk into this land mine just yet. Plus along with that huge head of hair comes a pre-packaged excuse for management as to why this team needs to endure yet another rebuilding year.

All this talk about maybe becoming the next Phil Jackson is ridiculous! So what if Jackson had little coaching experience. He walked on to a Bulls team that had two of the top 50 players EVER, not to mention the best player ever. What does this team have an athletic bust, a tiny SG, a post that cares more about his hair then his game, and a stoned center. The only good sign was the pick. I’m sorry to say this but this team was a good coach away from contending and Pax and Jr screwed it up.

if VDN as our HC get’s Pax the boot that much faster: IM ALL FOR IT

The third year is not guanteed. If VDN doesn’t work out this year he can be fired and it will only cost the Bulls $2 mil in next years salary.

i would be saying Vinny Del Negro and the Chicago Bulls in the same sentence!!! I hope Pax is right on this one if not its curtains for him as a GM

here

One thing scares the crap out of me – the idea that Bob Hill will become Del Negro’s lead assistant. There’s nothing wrong, especially as a coaching neophyte, to have a veteran hand behind you.<

But Hill’s veteran hand has had no shame in stabbing his bosses in the back in the past as he tries to move up in the food chain. He’s the ultimate NBA usurper, and has been for over two decades. With Del Negro working with one of the league’s cheapest coaching contracts and with only two years guaranteed, I can’t think of a coach I’d look less fondly on to take over should things go to pot, say, by December of 2009. I’d be looking fondly on the truncated Doug Collins era by that point.<

a new cheap lame duck newbie coach, and a small town, yes man GM who is fascinated with gambling and attempting to hit a home run of unknown/little know/unproven players, coaches and his own limited knowledge of basketball operational management. In regards to Paxson, I find it hard to be convinced that he knows what he wants or what he is doing?

Reinsdorf can now continue to call the shots from behind close doors…

it’s all about what happens on the golf course. They must mean the metaphorical golf course though, because I can’t see JR linksing it up.

Whats not being said is what is obvious, coaching on any level above high school is not plain old X’s and O’s it is very complicated and rather sophisticated X’s and O’s. If VDN has zero coaching experience I would assume that he would be developing an offensive and defensive scheme from scratch. Most NBA teams use at least 4 or 5 base sets for their offense, meaning no less than 8 to 10 seperate motions for each player. We know a triangle offense when we see it, but could we diagram it, and explain it to a genius like Tyrus? I wish him well but I think VDN has been tossed up like a clay pigeon!

via Hoopsworld

Vinny Del Negro will be announced as the new coach of the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.

The Bulls have scheduled a news conference for 3 p.m. EDT to introduce Del Negro, who spent this past season as the assistant general manager of the Phoenix Suns.

via K.C.’s trib article

Sources familiar with the interview process said the final interviews with Casey and Del Negro centered heavily on leadership in the locker room for the league’s youngest team.

So THAT’S how he won them over. Eh…hopefully it happens. That team desperately needs a leader.