The end of the Bulls game on Monday night vs the Spurs was interesting. Zach Lavine had the ball with the chance to win it for the Bulls. As he dribbled, Fred waved Wendell up to set a screen for him; Wendell started moving up. Zach waved him off; Wendell went back. Then Zach proceeded to take a crazy 3 pointer that missed. We all saw this. Player vs Coach… What gives?
Well, as has been discussed, Zach should have took it to the rack. Waving him off was fine, but then take your guy to the hole. If you were going to chuck up a desperate outside shot, then take the screen… like your coach suggested. Of course had he made the shot, nobody is talking about this…but he didn’t, so here we are.
It’s a bit surprising to me to see how this all went down. Don’t you guys talk about these situations before the game? Haven’t you played out different scenarios and gotten everybody on the same page? It’s a bad look. Player doing what he wants, not listening aka not respecting the coach. We’ve seen this movie before with FredBerg. If guys can just do what they want, then why have a coach?
Now I’m not a fan of FredBerg, you know this, but he IS the coach, and Zach, although he’s been our guy this year, is still a young player. Grant it, if the guy is feeling it, then go with your gut out there; maybe that’s all this really was. He said he felt good in a postgame interview. But from what I’ve seen with Lavine, he does this far too often… and most of the time when the game is on the line. He gets to the rim at will at times, so why stop that when it’s make or break time? Why fade away from behind the arc? He’s actually gotten a foul call before which led to a Bulls win at the very end of the game. Force the issue.
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Most importantly, we have to be better prepared in a situation like this, and that falls on the coach. If we’re down 1, here’s what we do. If we’re tied, here’s who I want the ball to go with…. here’s the play I want to run. HE should dictate what happens, not let the 23 year old player do what he wants. That’s how I see it.
Yet, the game wasn’t over… the Spurs turned it over on the inbounds pass, and Ryan almost made the game winner, which would have topped off a career game for him. He has been really good… certainly functional enough to serve as Dunn’s backup when he returns. The other thing I noticed on this play is when he tossed up the shot and fell to the ground, Jabari just stood there looking around… while a fan actually helped him up from under his seat; there was actually another Bulls player that ran over there. Meanwhile, Jabari just spaced out… not surprising. He reminds me of Starlin Castro with the Cubs back in the day… and that is probably paying him too much of a compliment. He was like a space cadet out there while his teammate dove into the courtside seats… zero awareness. Is that on the coach too?
We’re back to not expecting much from this Bulls team, at least in the win department, but… that doesn’t mean we can’t start teaching solid, base fundamentals. We need to be prepared in game-on-the-line situations. We need to coach awareness with our players. We have neither with Fred. To continue the rebuild properly, and make all this tanking worth it, we need to bring in somebody who will get this ship straightened out, and start teaching good habits, so that when the talent comes, we’re ready to go… and not retraining folks on basic stuff. Come on Bulls…
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