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Full-Court Press: Problems could arise from the Bulls hiring former Detroit Pistons coach Doug Collins
Tremendous Upside Potential: Bad hire, Pax
Blog a Bull: Comfortably dumbfounded
The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.: Doug Collins is just as slow as you remember
Final Thoughts on Chicago Sports : Cubs Thoughts: So What Have I Missed? Bulls to Hire Collins and Cubs Streaking at Home
Problems could arise from the Bulls hiring former Detroit Pistons coach Doug Collins
Full-Court Press —
With the Chicago Bulls re-hiring their former coach in a surprise announcement, John Hollinger of ESPN gives reasons why there may be some problems with the hire. May 29, ESPN: Problem No. 1: Pace Collins might be the most extreme slow-pace coach in the past quarter century. I'm amazed nobody has brought this up yet -- the guy makes Jeff Van Gundy look like Paul Westhead... Problem No. 2: Youth Collins' history is that he gets an immediate jump from his team -- and then things level off in subsequent seasons...In Detroit, rookies Aaron McKie and Theo Ratliff were two of his ...
Bad hire, Pax
Tremendous Upside Potential —
Yep, that’s where I’m at now after thinking and reading about this for a day. The Hollinger article did it for me: Doug Collins wasn’t the right hire. I don’t agree with all of Hollinger’s arguments (we’ll get to that in a second), but has Paxson even earned the benefit of the doubt? I say no. Hollinger presents three problems with hiring Collins: ...
Comfortably dumbfounded
Blog a Bull —
... Unfortunately, it seems like Collins coaches as if he does have 30 timeouts a game, having his team walk the ball up so slowly he can have more than enough time to get his message in. Hollinger (and many astute commenters here noted this first, btw) breaks it down: ...
Doug Collins is just as slow as you remember
The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL. —
No, not mentally slow. By all accounts, Dougie Fresh — that nickname’s not good enough, either; I’ll keep working on this — is a pretty brilliant basketball mind with the communicative ability to match. Dougie’s slowness is his coaching style, his pace, which John Hollinger calls out today. For fans of uptempo basketball, this is a bad sign:
Collins might be the most extreme slow-pace coach in the past quarter century. I’m amazed nobody has brought this up yet — the guy makes Jeff Van Gundy look like Paul Westhead. His Bulls were the league’s slowest-paced team in 1986-87 and 1987-88, even with Michael ...
So What Have I Missed? Bulls to Hire Collins and Cubs Streaking at Home
Final Thoughts on Chicago Sports : Cubs Thoughts —
The other day, in the middle of nowhere, Georgia, I decided to take a second and check out espn.com on my cell. After all, "nowhere" gets 3G. My goal was to find out what time the Cubs game was starting, though instead I was greeted with the front page headline, "Bulls to hire Doug Collins as Head Coach". My first reaction? Are you f#$%-ing kidding me? That has got to be a joke. To say I was furious would be an understatement. Doug Collins? The Doug Collins that had two chances to win a title with Michael Jordan and couldn't do it? The guy who couldn't win with a ...
Is John Paxson Out As Bulls GM?
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
A few weeks back when the Bulls were floundering and people were giving heat to first-year coach Vinny Del Negro, there was also talk John Paxson’s days as Bulls GM were numbered. Look, I even blogged about it.
But since then, the Bulls hit the road and played pretty well. And in the games they lost, they were very close to winning. Sort of like last night. (God, that last six seconds was infuriating.) But, one above average stretch of basketball apparently isn’t going to be enough to keep Del Negro’s and Paxson’s jobs in tact. This is at least what Peter Vecsey of the New York Post is reporting. (Blog A ...
