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From management’s roster vision to coaches’ schemes and messaging to players’ execution, there’s plenty of blame to divvy up among the Chicago Bulls.
The odd part is: Typically in such circumstances, a coach may be on the hot seat or perhaps management could be in trouble. But with Jerry and Michael Reinsdorf’s history of employing Jerry Krause for 18 years and John Paxson for 17 until Paxson initiated his exit plan, not to mention Artūras Karnišovas’ contract extension, Karnišovas has been given the green light to try to fix the current mess.
Same goes for Billy Donovan, who is liked and respected by both ownership and management and also has multiple years left on his extension. While it has happened in recent situations like Fred Hoiberg and Jim Boylen, the Reinsdorfs typically don’t like paying coaches not to work for them. So Donovan is safe, although it wouldn’t be a surprise to see his staff tweaked moving forward.
That leaves the burden of change falling on the players. And they know it.
COOL
To be fair Billy isn’t the problem this team is just cheeks.
Clowns at the circus
Continuity!
Why though
What has Billy Donovan done since becoming an NBA coach that’s impressive?
One season with Chris Paul surpassing expectations? A 25-10 start with the Bulls? One WCF he choked? Cmon
Ownership is always the issue. The Reinsdorfs are parasites on Chicago sports.
Fucking embarassing, where’s the accountability
Why is it that there only seems to be two types of coaches, guys who are well liked but too friendly to risk pissing off players to force adjustments or assholes who no one likes who end up alienating players and having the team quit on them?
Why is it so hard to be both good and not an asshole?