Here we go again. It’s the same ole song and dance at the Berto center. Today, the Chicago Bulls fired their puppet. The puppet being head coach, Fred Hoiberg. Now what about the men behind the curtain? The ones that have been pulling the strings all these years. Does anybody above John Paxson or his goon, Gar Forman, see the real problem here? It’s like this duo who run things  hires a company to clean up their crime scene. The crime scene is all of their mistakes they have made running this organization into the ground. I agree, get rid of the puppet. Now you need to call  the maid service and clean the house of Gar Pax stench that has devoured the city of Chicago. The Bulls need new blood in this front office to cure  the heap these two morons have piled up over the years.

The first thing that jumps out at me is Fred Hoiberg should have never been hired. Fred Hoiberg was doing well at the school he went to and played for. Iowa State where he was known as the the mayor. The whole town of Ames, Iowa loved him. They probably still do. My point is he got the Cyclones to the NCAA tournament. He got his old school there a few years. The Cyclones were seeded pretty well. They were not a 16th seed coming in hoping to pull off a miracle of some kind. He never won one game in the tournament. That is a red flag in my book. The conference Iowa State played in could have been weak. It’s not a big school. How many power houses was that school playing each year? Fred Hoiberg played ten seasons in the NBA. Played 4 seasons with the Bulls. He did not come in with any NBA coaching experience under his belt. He did a few years in the front office for the Minnesota Timberwolves.  No NBA coaching and a guy that never won a game in the NCAA tournament is the guy you hired.

I never liked the philosophy Fred Hoiberg came in with. I know the NBA these days are all about firing up the three pointers. That’s what his offense was all about. Getting personnel that can shoot the three pointer. It was a style to get multiple shots from behind the three point line. It was all about pushing the ball up the court with a quick pass and launching the ball behind the arc. Then on defense the philosophy was pretty much a prevent defense that is run in football. In football it’s designed to kill the clock. In basketball it does not really stop teams from scoring. Jimmy Butler complained about the lack of defense. Even the young rookie, Wendell Carter Jr., questioned the lack of defense. Fred’s philosophy reminds me of the those Phoenix Suns teams that could score a lot but stopped no one. Results never won a championship with that style. The Warriors these days are still the best team in the league. They play defense and they can shoot the three as well. But they have so many other ways on offense to score points.

From the beginning this was set up to fail with Fred Hoiberg. It all started with John Paxson and Gar Forman wanting Tom Thibodeau out of town. They wanted someone they could control. Right out of the gates Fred Hoiberg never had the right personnel for his philosophy. The front office brought in guys like Dwyane Wade who was on his last leg. Then they added Rajon Rondo who was never like his Boston days. The locker room was divided most of time. Then Jimmy Butler had his way and never took Fred seriously. This resulted in a trip to the playoffs. Boston Celtics that year eliminated the Bulls in the first round. Then the Bulls had a clearance sale. Fred finally got players he needed to run his style of offense. They assembled mostly fragile players that were in and out of the MASH unit more than actually on the hardwood floors.

The big headlines this team made under Fred’s watch was the shot heard all over the NBA. Bobby Portis punching his own teammate, Nikola Mirotic, out in a practice. That was not the first time these two teammates had a disagreement. It was a problem that escalated to the punch that broke a few facial bones in Nikola Mirotic’s face. Eventually to end the feud, Nikola was traded to another team. This tells me that Fred Hoiberg has problems controlling his locker room. Before this incident Jimmy Butler did his own thing. Back then the locker room was divided as I told you earlier.

This year dealing with half his roster dealing with injuries. One being their best player from the year before in Lauri Markkanen. The other key pieces missing in action were Kris Dunn, Bobby Portis and Denzel Valentine. The results a 5-19 record to start the season. Last season the team started off slow due to a few injuries and a slow start. With all the roster shuffling. Trying to win off the fly and then going into a rebuild. A very young team. Lots of injuries. Lots of egos. Lots of angry and disgruntled players resulted in a 115-155 record for Fred Hoiberg in his first stint as a NBA coach, that could be his only. Being set up to take the fall is the perfect way of describing Fred’s Bulls coaching career.

Fred Hoiberg’s assistant coach Jim Boylen now takes over the Bulls. He at least has prior NBA experience working with one of the best coaches in the game, Greg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs. He was assistant for the Spurs for a few years gaining wisdom and improving his own coaching style. He does have head coaching experience in college. He coached at the university of Utah. He guided the Uthes to the NCAA tournament as a number five seed. Another guy that could not win an actual game in the tournament. However his coaching resume is impressive. Before being hired in Utah he was Tom Izzo’s top guy at Michigan State. This is the type of resume the Bulls Brass should have looked at years before the experiment with Fred imploded on impact.

The Bulls Brass, John Paxson and Gar Forman, have more lives than a cat. Jim Boylen will be the sixth head coach these two have been through. The list started with Bill Cartwright then Scott Skiles followed that by Vinny Del Negro. He was the one John Paxson punched. Then Tom Thibodeau, your best hire out of all the other choices. He did it his way. That did not go over well as he was not a yes man for Bert and Ernie. Enough is enough with cutting the tail off the snake of the organization. It just grows back. It is actually time to cut the head off the snake. Enough of the venom in this organization that has just led to nonsense over the years.  The Bulls owner needs to identify the major problem under his nose and flush it into Lake Michigan. Let those Japanese Carp feed on the stench these two have caused. These carp eat anything but this stench might be too much for even them to swallow.  The Bulls will never get back to the promised land unless they go into another direction with someone else running things.