It’s painful right now being a Bulls fan. There have been bad years… the year after the last title was pretty bad, when I finally got season tickets, and had to sit in an empty UC to watch the Tim Floyd era begin. Last year would qualify as a bad year, with tank mode in full effect. Actually, the last few years with Fredberg have been pretty bad. I had a feeling that this year would be better. Tanking would be complete; Fredberg would be that much closer to the end of his contract; the young guys would get better. We would actually compete for a playoff berth. Yeah, well, that was wishful thinking.
I was happy with the departure of Hoiberg, but understood that the other bigger problem of GarPax was still here; it was them that hired Hoiberg after all. Yet, I was willing to give Boylen a chance; why not… he couldn’t be worse than FredBerg. After watching the start of the Boylen era, he actually reminded me of Thibs; that’s not a bad thing. After losing at Indiana, we actually beat OKC at home; that was a great game, and a preview of what was to come, right? Well, what followed was the worst loss in Bulls history, a 56 point thrashing at the hands of the Celtics. Boylen wasn’t shy about making bold moves, both during the game by benching the starters, and after the game, by scheduling another practice; I guess I’m OK with that conceptually. He is the head coach. Yet, not sure I would have done the same.
I would have put the starters back out there, down 40+ points. I would have played them until the very last second. Was sitting them on the bench a more effective way to get his message across, or would playing them the entire time have worked better? Leaving them on the bench gave them the excuse of not being able to do much about it, since they weren’t on the court. Look, we’re not that great of a team to begin with… that tactic may have worked at a different point in time, like maybe when this team has won some games, maybe made the playoffs, had at least some substantial playing time together. The embarrassment of getting blown out was made even worse by it being record breaking… and we didn’t even have our starters in there trying to lessen the blow.
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It’s embarrassing all the way around. The only silver lining in all of this Bull crap is if this forces us down the path of the GarPax departure, or even better yet, the Reinsdorfs selling the team. Both of these seem very unlikely at this point, especially the selling of the team. Why sell this team when we have the 2nd best attendance in the league, and money is pouring in regardless of the quality of the team? Why fire the GMs when this is the case? It’s a tough spot, no doubt, especially for us fans. We love our Bulls; we deserve better. More to come…
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