My favorite subject!
It seems to be going as planned. The plan was to try to win right away because the team had actual stars that were capable of making the playoffs. That's the way the sold the hire to everyone. The Bulls were great! They just needed a genius offensive mind to take them to the promised land! When they realized that the coach they hired to take them to next level, was indeed taking them next level, but in the other direction, they decide to supplement that good roster with aging stars. That worked somewhat and everyone respected their coach. But since it didn't work that well, they decided to tank, asking everyone to believe that they didn't fire their previous coach for sucking even though by their own admission two years earlier they didn't have the roster to compete. This year started off great with two average NBA players getting into a fight during practice. The victim seemed to be at fault from everything the Bulls have done. But it is awkward because the victim doesn't want to play with the player that caused him great injury, so he is demanding a trade. They'll get nothing for him since every team knows that the Bulls have no leverage. But the current group of bad players are playing hard! But it doesn't really matter because the whole master plan depends on the brain trust of Gar Forman making a good lottery pick.
Very little of this is actually Fred's fault except that it seems to be hard for him to get a team of stars to work together well and according to the Chicago media a lot of the coaching decisions he made in college aren't working in the NBA. But they seem to be tanking really well so far this year, so that's good. They have a good young star that they lucked into since Gar and Paxton admitted they literally did nothing to scout the kid before the draft. They all claim that the team is working incredibly hard and are playing well together (except for that pesky fight!).
I suspect Fred won't get fired until Gar gets fired. And Gar won't get fired because the Reinsdorf kid's wife and Gar's wife like to go shopping. But since I am convinced that Gar is a snake, if he suspects his job is on the line, he won't hesitate to turn on his friend.
And you don't have to recruit at KU, Adidas does that for you.
