When the Duhon/Gordon/Hughes/Deng/Noah configuration hit the floor, I lost all respect for Boylan.  Even my wife, a casual fan, was like WTF.  

This sounds like a joke, but a fan lottery to coach the Bulls for a half would have produced more logical lineups.

Look, a lot of the blame lies with the players.  However, Boylan has shown that he is in way over his head on this one.  His inability to coach at the NBA level has killed whatever playoff prospects we had, and is doing damage on an ongoing basis to the team's future.  Tyrus Thomas is a first round draft pick who has shown the ability to play at a high level.  His indiscriminate benching is laughable, were it not crippling his development.

John Paxson needs to fire Boylan right now and coach the team for the rest of the season.  Boylan cannot do it.  To leave him in there is unfair to the team and the fans.

Again, let me remind everyone that the Bulls raised ticket prices this year.  And this is what we are paying for: incompetence.

Who thinks we can get a "fire Boylan" chant going at the next game?

how the last few games might have gone if numbnuts had stuck to his earn your minutes edict with Hughes and Gooden.  The players we want to see on the court played one of the best games this year.  I guess they didn't do it the right way.
   Anyone see the SI article recently about this guy Hallberg's offense, specifically how Memphis is utilizing it?  I'm not that much of a technician to argue its merits, but I mentioned earlier how a lot of the instant turnarounds (GS, Phoe) seem to allow the players to utilize their 1-1 talents.  The comment I liked best in the article was by a coach that said that since adopting this offense, he's spending more time teaching kids how to play basketball instead of how to run plays.  I also saw somewhere else that Calliparri said his players are coming to him a lot more for one to one training after practice.
   As I understand it, the low post sets up on the weak side to open space, the shooters set up at the three, and the point has to break his man down and penetrate to score, dish to the cutter or out to the three.  It mentioned Boston and Denver as the NBA teams who have adopted parts of it.  As disheartened as the players seem so often, I wonder if it's not the system rather than the personality of the staff.  If the coach's night in and night out answer is effort and energy, both problems point right back at the coach: how much energy does it (your offense) take and why won't the players bring it?  

I was at the game, and I have no idea what he did wrong.  Maybe he had a defensive breakdown early in the 3rd quarter and I missed it, but from what I saw he didn't appear to be any more or less lousy than any other Bull right after halftime.  It's pretty sad that he has to be the scapegoat - was it his fault the Bulls got lit up by Roger Mason Jr. (who knew he was even still in the league)?  If I were him, I'd be praying to get the fuck out of Chicago after this season.

The silver lining of this atrocious season is that Matt's beautiful when he's angry.

Skiles and Boylan were both hell-bent on having constant competition for rotation minutes.  In typical faux-machismo fashion, Boylan gave us this quote two games ago when he benched Kirk: "I said there's competition out here.  Bring your 'A' game or come down and sit next to me."

But why, Jimmy?  Why this constant game-by-game, minute-by-minute competition 50 games into the season?  Imagine if the threat of instantaneous benching existed in a normal business.  "Yeah, you might be the account executive now... but if you don't start off well in the first 15 minutes of the meeting, I'm switching you out for the intern, pronto!  No job is safe!  Bring your 'A' game or you're going to get me coffee!  I'm the man!"

Give each guy a role, Jimmy.  Tell Kirk and Tyrus and Thabo that their minutes are safe.  That if they start out 1/6 with 2 fouls, you understand that that stuff happens and that how they play over the course of the game depends little on their first quarter performance.

Leave the open competition for next preseason.  This year, we need to win and win now.

This is my first post.  I accidently found your site a few weeks ago and thanks to reading Matt's keen observations, along with those of most of you who participate here...I want to thank all of you for allowing me to keep whatever is left of my sanity after watching the 3 stooges mismanage game after game into the toilet.

Then following another defeat caused by rotations that indicate severe brain damage or incompetence beyond measure, we must be subjected to hear another rant by the chief idiot-knucklehead, pointing  fingers for their failures at everyone (especially singling out TT, their only potential all star) but to the main culprit...himself and his lame-brained coaching staff.  

Didn't this pseudo coach have a winning percentage around 20% in his 4 year disaster at New Hampshire from 1989 to 92?  Can we also assume that the rare victories were likely won in spite of this bulbous boob, rather than because of his skills?

Please hire Storman Norman, Scottie Pippen or even Dennis Rodman to finish out the season. At least they were all winners and actually played in the NBA.  I think boneheaded Boylan suffers from NBA envy when he is confronted with anyone that has potential upside talent.  He is completely clueless on how to bring that out, since he has nothing to draw from within his own skull.  As he said when they hired him...I stole all my ideas from other coaches. He's like a thief who stole the manuscript from a great writer, and then couldn't understand a word of it after reading it, but has now convinced himself he can now be the next Tom Wolfe instead of who he really resembles, the next Homer Simpson...with my apologies to Homer.