Doug Thonus weighs in on Vinny

The problem is John Paxson, somewhere, somehow there is a belief that certain former players have the knowledge and skills to be executives running basketball teams.

Just because Paxson is a ND graduate, clearly his leadership is not good. Paxson should have upgraded his education and spent time studying at a graduate degree level because his management is lacking and weak.

Not Vinny, But I believe Paxson is a man out of touch with proper leadership attributes. Paxson seems to be ruled by his limited perspectives, bias prejudices and inordinate favoritism towards certain basketball players which hurts his objectivity to take this Chicago team past average. It’s not the coach..

Hearing former player Reggie Miller urge last night concerning LBJ best player ranking percentage even with a bruised elbow. Miller strongly stated LBJ was better than 97% of the rest of the NBA players, correcting the other analyst. Reggie named 3 players who might be better than a hurt LBJ, therefore 97% is the mathematical calculation he derived.. Actually he seem void of the knowledge that his analysis was based on an exact number of a total of only 100 active players being in the NBA. I don’t know that exact number of active players in the NBA, but I’m sure there are more than 100?

Likewise John Paxson has proven he is lacking in knowledge, management, diversity, vision and objectivity.. Why do some of these former players propelled into leadership positions believe they don’t need to continue to learn and conduct themselves in accordance with other leaders in different organization. Are they entitled to receive a pass and remain ignorant?

All of the management training schools across the nation have been teaching diversity for years. Chicago Bulls had a GM banning something as trivial as wearing a sweat head band which also helps control perspiration from entering eyes. And this was four years ago. Why is John Paxson recent actions a surprise to anyone?

Go Figure…

Or …
Who, who, who is obviously worst than Vinny?

..my answer is stated above

It was a directive from PAXDORF that Tyrus not be played. It was not Vinny’s decision. Tyrus fate was set at the beginning of the season. Gibson is ok but still not a starter in 90% of teams. If he had gone to a team where they have an NBA PF, he would have been benched and maybe out of the league by the time his contract expires. He needs to be a power presence and that lack of presence showed in the playoffs. I just hope he gets stronger, more intense and develops a jump shot. He is too small/short to succeed in the long run.

I guess you can blow a 35-point lead while playing hard.

Mike McGraw of the Chicago Daily Herald is reporting the decision regarding should be made by Tuesday. He also reports

According to sources, the team is trying to keep an open mind, and firing Del Negro is not written in stone.

really, potentially getting a worse coach is not an excuse. I’m not even sure it’s possible, but if it is it shouldn’t paralyze the team from looking for an upgrade.

This is yet another byproduct of the Org. twiddling their thumbs, the longer they wait the more ‘cases’ like this can be made.

The Org. values (to a fault) getting players who play hard and now Vinny gets credit because his team plays hard. Plus it’s as if we couldn’t have expected Rose or Noah to improve with any coach.

whatever FA we get will most likely want to have a say in the coach. Give Vinny a year with the new team. If all goes well Vinny signs extension. If Vinny fails, fire him and look for a new coach with input from Rose, Noah, and FA signing.

I think Vinny should stay and GarPax should go. Bring in Doug Collins as GM. I think he would do very well in that role.

I should consider VDN-not-bashers a fringe element. You don’t really like this guy, you just feel bad because his bosses suck worse. Not a sentiment worth retaining a coach over.

To keep Vinny would exonerate his ineptitude, exonerate the Org’s ineptitude, and whitewash the fight by insinuating that it was never really a problem. It will allow them to save some money on a coach and to compound it all, we will still have Vinny, who as I said before sucks—accountability or no.

I think I understand why I am reluctant to make the coaching change. I would make the change only if I had someone in mind who I was convinced would make the team better and was available. I am concerned that the Bulls will start the merry-go-round of interviewing not knowing who they are looking for after they fire Vinny. From AACF’s above list there are 7 viable candidates. That is a manageable number. Paxson should have someone in mind for the position. I am not convinced that has happened. I do not want to start another long search like we had 2 years ago.

There’s probably 15 good to great coaches in the league and the rest are “meh” (Vinny) to “terrible” (Mike Dunleavy). The only other good candidates are either guys you’ve never heard of (like Dave Joerger) or guys whose flaws you’re familiar with (Avery Johnson, Byron Scott) or guys who don’t really want to coach right now (JVG).

I wouldn’t mind stealing someone from Pop or Phil’s team either (Mike Budenholzer or Brian Shaw), but even those types of guys don’t necessarily have the greatest track records (see: Mike Brown and Kurt Rambis).

there are worse coaches than VDN folks. Remember when Skiles quit on the team and vice versa? That’s what could happen again.

I don’t even like VDN that much, but does anyone really think that a coach makes that much of a difference? Look at mike brown and doc for christs sake. Those guys don’t exactly have brilliant systems or perfect strategery. They have good players.

Thonus is right, hire another coach and it could be worse. It could also of course be better. But there is no perfect candidate.

I am not at all a Bulls Org apologist, in fact I’d like to see Paxson canned ASAP. But I don’t have some fairy tail running through my head where a new coach suddenly makes grants the Bulls a) a big time free agent and b) a 2nd round playoff berth.

…not only does VDN look like a sympathetic figure to the media, but now to Blog A bull as well.

Congratulations Gar Paxdorf, your plan just backfired.

See everyone later while I go jump off a cliff…