Vinny Del Negro’s Office Doesn’t Have a Suggestions Box
That’s what Ben Gordon and Luol Deng recently found out after voicing their opinions about what the team should (and shouldn’t) be doing. Vinny Del Negro reminded the two players that it’s his show, and they’ll just have to come along for the ride.
Following a disheartening loss to the Cavs, Gordon and Deng called for changes to the Bulls’ strategy, but their coach wasn’t having any of it. From the Sun-Times:
”No, no, no; they’re the players, I’m the coach,” Del Negro said.
”The good teams in this league stick together,” Del Negro continued. ”The good teams fight and figure out ways to get better every day. And they’re good teammates. When you trust your teammates and when you trust the system, your chances of success go up dramatically. We’re trying to do that here, and we have a long way to go with that.”
The Bulls, at 2-3, aren’t exactly playing inspired basketball these days. Team defense seems like an afterthought, and on offense, guys are going for theirs when the going gets tough.
Though it’s important for a coach to establish some form of control over the players, it might not hurt for Vinny to listen to them a bit - “his way” hasn’t exactly produced the desired results thus far.
1. great drafts & bad player movement- gave up brand,chandler 2. bad player management- saturated at pg. & sg. no decent big men( atlest 1 shotblocker). only gooden there 4 rebounding. Soln. free gordon for 1 decent big along wit hughes
bulls shud b running team wit rose,nocioni,deng,thomas,gooden
2nd five: heinrich,sefolosha,gray, and hu ever is left plus maybe mcdyess.
I wonder if Jordan,Pippen,Grant,or Kukoc got to express themsevles withouth being muzzled???????????????????????????
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Sure did….Pippen sat out of final plays in tight games…Rodman wouldnt sit on the bench or stay away from Las Vegas and Kukoc pretended not to understand english…6 championships later though it didnt really matter.
VINNY THE BLACK WISHES HE WAS HALF AS GOOD AS PHIL JACKSON.
First rule is no outside shots for anyone until they have taken it to the hole 4 times. Also, Tyrus Thomas should be barred from taking any outside shot until he can shoot over 43% from the outside. He should be a Dennis Rodman for us. Derrick Rose is our best player. He still needs to be more aggressive especially when the rest of the team is screwing up. Now, they must throw the ball in low to Aaron Gray and isolate him much, much more… 20-30 times a game. I know he is slow, but he is strong and has solid posts moves and passes great out of the double team. It would get the other bigs in foul trouble, it would open up the outside shots for our guards, and he would score a double double every night, I guarantee it. Well I could go on and on. See ya guys, GO BULLS!!
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