Well, I think hiring Doug Collins affirms that notion. With Collins and Rose on the marquee, Bulls fans will fill the United Center and Reinsdorf will rake in the dough. At best, the team will be mediocre (think 1st round playoffs) for a few years. If Rose is spectacular, then maybe they bring in some talent (maybe), if he shrinks under the hometwon pressure, then they’ll come up with a reason to trade him. But in the meantime, everybody rides the gravy train. If I was Bulls fan (I certainly am not! as far as I’m concerned, the best thing that ever happened to the Bulls was when John Starks yoked on the heads of both Jordan and Pippen!), I’d be pissed…

Listening to Collins for two and a half hours on a TNT broadcast is painful enough, I cannot imagine the woe he will bestow upon the young heads in Chicago now. I remember arguing with some internet dude a while back on Truehoop (back when it was still independent and therefore relevant) about Scott Skiles’ inabilitiy to connect with the young guys on his team at that time (when Chandler was on his way out, he had negative things to say about Skiles and the whole Bulls organization - again, Chandler is a cat I’ve met, people from my circle know people in his circle, and all swear he’s a solid, hardworking young cat). Ty Thomas had just been drafted and I argued that we would see no improvement in Thomas’ game so long as Skiles was the coach. And now? Well, the proof is in the pudding. So what do the Bull’s do? Go out and hire Scott Skiles (-)2.0, a former coach who is an older, slower, worthless version of their former coach.

Just think, a few weeks ago, cats like Thomas, Noah, Deng, Gordon, even Hinrich were geeked about runnin and gunnin with Mike D’Antoni. Now they’ve got to listen to some old retread screamin on em like a drill sargeant for the next couple years, same as before. Expect stagnation, if not outright regression for these Bulls. It’s too bad, and I feel for those cats. Whichever one, Rose or Beasley, who escapes to Miami will be much better for it!

I thought that Avery would have been a great selection. As far as I’m concerned he is a championship coach whose championship was stolen by the refs. Yes he did get outcoached by Nellieball, but that was a special circumstance, and every coach has been outcoached before. Not only that, but the real credit goes to Stephen Jackson who defended the hell out of Dirk and one of the very few players who can.

I am not as down on Dirk as Eric and many others though. He was actually the only maverick to play consistently well throughout the entire Hornets series. Josh Howard’s inexplicable shooting slump and JKidd’s inability to keep CP3 in front of him is why the Mavs lost. Also, two years ago, Dirk willed the Mavs past the Spurs in that game 7 epic series. His Game 7 3-point-play to force Game 7 overtime was a clutch play that capped off a clutch series.

Avery was a much better selection for the Bulls, but he simply didn’t have the networking ties that Collins had. The good ole boy network still exists in the most progressive league.

D- Wade carried his franchise on his back when the rest of the Heat were gasping for air and by himself in the last 3 minutes of games won 4 in a row scoring 15-20 points each time. That is what a great player does instead Dirk “No Show Up” played like a deer lost in the forrest and the Heat said they seized upon Dirk’s failure to want to take over the game and he looked like a rookie instead of a 7 year player who is the “FRANCHISE”. Avery Johnson can not give a player heart and desire to rip a team’s soul from them but Wade did and they have not recovered from that ASSWHIPPIN !!!

And for the record…. a coach’s main job on the floor is to put his players in the best position to do well. Do you honestly think Avery did that the last 2 years?