Tom Thibodeau was fired by the Chicago Bulls. Thibodeau coached the Bulls since 2010. At the time, she won the award for best coach the NBA, but only once has led the Bulls to the Eastern Conference finals and never once to the NBA Finals.
Releasing Thibodeau is the thing that expected in the NBA since over a year. Between Thibodeau and Management Bulls John Paxson and Forman Garem accumulated in the last three years misunderstandings so that only outstanding performance in this year's playoffs, the Bulls could save his job. Meanwhile, the Bulls lost surprisingly easily 2-4 in the second round of the Cleveland Cavaliers przetrzebionymi injuries.
The club owner Jerry Reinsdorf has published on Thursday a statement in which no secret of the fact that the main reason for dismissal was the conflict.
- The teams that regularly play at a high level, they do it because they are able to live in harmony and be together. I'm talking about the players, trainers, and owners managemencie. When all are "on the same side", developing trust and team then grow in strength. Unfortunately, the letter was too much to deviate from that.
The main axis of the misunderstandings were butchering trends Thibodeau to the players and "play" them very much. Luol Deng - Miami Heat player today - twice in the days Thibodeau led his team to the NBA in average minutes per game (39.4 in 2011/12, 38.7 in 2012/13). And once he did it, Jimmy Butler (38.7 in the 2014/15 season). Thibodeau they do not necessarily comply with the limits of minutes that the medical staff imposed on data players returning from injury or who have problems with injuries. It got to that before the 2014/15 season the Bulls have created a special unit in the club, which was in constant contact with Thibodeau and will monitor how playing time it gives players.
Thibodeau defenders can easily point for this brief meeting on the sidelines as the cause that had already been coach of the Bulls "played" so much some players. Also that of the playoffs in 2012, the topic No. 1 in Chicago was health and matches abandoned by Derrick Rose, the MVP of the 2010/11 season.
Thibodeau is still in the contract two years, for which he receives 9 million dollars. Bulls are interested in Fred Hoibergiem, coach Iowa State University and a former player several NBA clubs.
- I love Thibsa and I think they did a great job. It is a pity that he was leaving, but I expect that some NBA club will take him right away - wrote on Twitter on Thursday, Barack Obama, the US president and supporter of the Bulls.
Thibodeau's Bulls won 65% of matches of the regular season for four consecutive seasons - until this - were at the end of the season in the Top5 defensive efficiency. Thibodeau before, as an assistant to Doc Rivers, created the foundation for the No. 1 defense and title Boston Celtics in 2008. Prior to that, he was an assistant Jeff Van Gundy'ego in Houston, where the Rockets twice had the defense in the Top5.
But that was some years ago. Today, more coaches the NBA used a defensive strategy elements, which began with Thibodeau. It's about creating a half-zone on the side where the ball is and send one additional player to help when two defenders weapons of shares in pick-and-roll. In this way, over time, they began to defend in the NBA among other things, the Indiana Pacers (No. 1 defense 2013/14 season), Portland Trail Blazers, Oklahoma City Thunder. Elements of this type of defense are still present in teams, which leads Doc Rivers (Los Angeles Clippers) and have been taken over by several other trainers.
Thibodeau is a huge plus but still that it has the ear of the players and makes them feel they are responsible for what they do on the pitch. In Thibodeau does not have sleepless possessions and unspoken errors. This time it started a little disturbing Bulls players, but there are many NBA clubs wishing to take over the culture of carrying the team. These are mainly young clubs that need more discipline.
Thibodeau alone, however, will have to first learn the lessons of the reasons for his separation from the Bulls. In recent years, the NBA made a huge leap in terms of understanding of how important it is to save the players during the regular season. Behind us is only the first season in history in which no player on the court spent more than 3,000 minutes.
Thibodeau can once again be a NBA coach class, if understand a few things - that it needs more players and save it to a better headquarters surrounded himself with assistants offensive. In the playoffs, he never became famous for unconventional improvement which he made during the series.
Even if Thibodeau in 2015 is less valuable than Thibodeau coached in 2012, the Bulls may not be at all easy to find a good successor. However, they can count on is that what "Thibs" instilled in the players and what they learned about their defense, they will still cherished.
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