It takes a special type of team to give up a 35-point lead at home to another club that is also below .500. You need a perfect storm of bad coaching, bad players and bad strategy.
Bulls Fans: Blame The Organization
If you ask Bulls fans, though, you also need an incompetent front office and ownership that seemingly doesn’t care to make the team competitive. Every failure the team has experienced this year can be tied back to their front office, and this blown 35-point lead is no exception. At least that’s how Blog a Bull, SB Nation’s Bulls blog, sees it.
Our owner uses this team as an out-of-sight financial boon while he focuses on his true passion. Our VP of Basketball Operations was talked out of quitting by being given a promotion. The current GM’s qualifications is stepping in and giving Luol Deng an extra 7 figures on his deal. They collectively spend nearly a whole summer trying to hire a coach, and end up with a complete unqualified unknown, and even while he proves himself to not be ready for the job, they keep him anyway.
So is it really that surprising that such an unorganized front office hiring an over-his-head coach could produce such a discombobulated team capable of choking away such a huge lead? That Derrick Rose wouldn’t be given the best chance to finish out the game (though he’s not faultless in not rising above it either), and the rest of the team would be completely tense up in ‘support’? Guys who defer to the Org. are rewarded, and it’s not surprising that it leads to deference in games.
But it wasn’t THAT shocking or demoralizing. Is this loss truly any worse than the string of blowouts on the west coast, or the home loss to the Nets? It will get more attention, but if Vinny wasn’t fired then he won’t be now. They don’t have a plan to handle the coaching, just like the coach doesn’t have a plan to keep a lead. Gar Paxdorf’s “process” is just as screwed as Vinny Del Negro’s “attack”, and we’ll be watching the results for the foreseeable future, hoping a star player decides against his best interest to save us from it in the offseason.
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