re: This team continues to crumble under pressure

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With all due respect, their all in, no moves left on management side left. Zion and bi need to work with their team, including coaching staff. Unless you’re telling me doc’s 2 week old contract can be bought out. I like the team and anyone but bi and Zion can be asked to come off the bench, cj val or jones. Stay the course.

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That's the problem, we're stuck with what we got and Willie Green.

Willie preached all AS break about how we're tightening up the rotations and it's go time. Zion only logs 33 minutes, and you got Bulls reporters asking if Jonas was on a minutes restriction because we didn't play him more when Nance was so bad.

You got Willie having Jordan Hawkins take the ball up the court ot get stolen, something anyone knows he's not good at, when you have Herb Jones on the court and he played point guard in college.

People will say "it's only 1 play" but don't realize it's a collection of bad decisions that add up. And when you're down 2 with 1 minute to go, a collection of bad coaching decisions is why you lose. Hell, even just 1 bad decision that costs you 2 points can cost you a game. But Willie is making a bunch of them.


This is the classic process vs results situation. Some folks will say we're 34-24, 10 games over .500, it's not fair to bash Willie, he's doing a good job. That's setting your narrative based on results only, which ignore how good you should be. How many wins have we left on the court due to bad coaching vs how many times did we win because Willie just did a master class coaching job? This team should easily be a 38-20 team. That's viewing the process.

Willie isn't getting the most out of this team, or even close to it.

That doesn't even get into the whole Zion thing that is WIllie's biggest indictment, with how badly he's botching that.