Da Bulls have offered their head coaching gig to….get this…Vinny Del Negro.
A man with zero coaching experience. None. Zip. Nada. Never coached in his life and is now the head coach of the Bulls, a team who is supposedly trying to win a championship. Can we call this the worst head coaching search ever? Seriously, I don’t have a history of head coaching searches on me but I feel like this has been terrible. Here’s a somewhat brief recap of the events that went down.
- They go for D’Antoni but lose out after Donnie Walsh seduces him with talk of friendship and money.
- They call Avery Johnson but then John Paxson cancels and they never call him back.
- They go after Doug Collins, a man who had just been quoted the week before as saying he wanted to spend time with his grandkids. Yet they still go after him ignoring that fact and the fact that he has never won anything.
- It gets announced that Collins is coming in.
- The Bulls freak out and deny it, Collins plays silly and everything is in limbo for a while.
- Dwyane Casey and Chuck Person get second interviews. Despite the fact that Dwyane Casey struggled to have his team score points with Kevin Garnett and that Chuck Person is half-insane.
- Collins and the Bulls officially decide to mutually split. Casey and Person are the favorites depending on who you ask.
- Vinny Del Negro becomes the favorite out of nowhere.
- Vinny Del Negro gets the job.
That was the Bulls head coaching search in a nutshell. Now compare that with the Suns and how Steve Kerr interviewed several assistant coaches…you know because they have experience coaching. Now an Assistant GM who used to play in the league. I’m not understanding that. Maybe someone can help me…is hiring Del Negro a good move in anyone’s book? Maybe I’m too stubborn or am not seeing the logic. I’m begging someone to make this make sense to me. You don’t have to hire a “superstar” coach. But why not get someone who was a top assistant? Isn’t that what those guys are for most of the time.
Can’t wait till Noah calls him Del Knee-Grow (like black people). That’s how I imagine it going in my head don’t you ruin my dreams.
In other news:
Ty Lawson officially needs to be slapped in the back of his head. What is wrong with this guy? First getting arrested for DWI and having a suspended license. Next….missing a workout with the Nuggets on Sunday. How on earth do you miss a workout? How? If you are on the fringe of being drafted in the first round how do you miss a workout? Especially if the team trying to work you out has the #20 pick. It makes no sense at all. Maybe it’s just me but I’d be there early, not leaving anything up to chance and I would be juiced up. He’s messing his life up right now, real talk. Come on man. Bill Cosby would beat you down with an umbrella for acting stupid.
- Pistons announced Michael Curry as their new head coach. Already talked about it. No new feelings from me, I might as well give him a chance to fail.
- Suns announced Terry Porter as their new head coach. Already talked about it.
- I present you Bonnie-Jill Laflin the greatest scout in the NBA’s history. There are very knowledgeable woman on the game of basketball. This…is not one of them. I know her scouting reports have at least one smiley and an LOL. They have to. She has to say “he’s not very good, kind of reminds me of the other Pussycat Dolls” or at least two references to the Hills. I just want to watch her scout now. Not just because she’s smoking hot but just to see if she’s actually halfway decent. I can’t be the only one come on now people.