Who Was Worse: Vinny or The Bulls? [Vinny Finally Fired Edition]
We all knew the end was near for Vinny. We thought it would happen on Christmas, but when it didn’t it just became a matter of time. Well the time is now for Vinny. He will be officially fired at a press conference today. There will be a lot of time to look back on the Vinny era and criticize him, but does he really deserve all the criticism? I would say that he does not. In fact, I would say that the Bulls gave him an impossible job that he hadn’t earned and he did extremely well despite efforts by the front office to undermine and hurt him.
Was Vinny the greatest coach? Absolutely not. The guy was terrible. He had no experience, no offensive gameplan to speak of, and no idea how to call plays out of timeouts or manage rotations. That being said, he learned pretty quickly and went from the worst coach in the NBA to around average within two years. He also helped develop Joakim Noah and Derrick Rose into budding superstars. The organization on the other hand? They really mishandled everything. Reinsdorf was too cheap to pay an experienced coach, so he forced Vinny on Pax and the Bulls. Obviously the situation with Noah’s minutes and the Bulls choice to keep quiet and let Vinny sit as a lame-duck coach for 4 months to end this season were also poor moves.
That’s all in the past, and I do wish Vinny well, but where do we go from here? According to ESPN, the list of Bulls coaching candidates is not a short one. Here is what they are saying so far:
Doug Collins, Maurice Cheeks, Eric Musselman, Phil Jackson, Byron Scott, Sam Mitchell, Tom Thibodeau, Lawrence Frank, Dwane Casey, Avery Johnson, John Calipari, and Jeff Van Gundy.
I’m not sure if any of those guys is interested in being physically assaulted by Paxson, but hopefully we can get one of those guys. In all honesty, just go out to LeBron, Wade, or Bosh and say “Who do you want to coach you?” Then acquire the free agent, acquire the coach, and win the East. Simple enough.
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