Bulls fired Hoiberg.
Yeah 5-19 is unsightly, but they've been without there best player Markaanen, Portis and Dunn have missed a ton. Whaddaya expect?
They beat the 5 weak teams they faced. Have had 6 close losses in a fairly tough schedule: Lost to SA by 1; 3 point loss @ MIL; 2 point L v. IND; OT 1 Pt near-miss v. DEN; 2 pt loss to DET.
They have a young not great team with lots of injuries.
Looking at the schedule I can't see where they should have picked up more wins. Lost to MIA at Home --
shrug. Then @MIN was a Home/Road B2B. Lost to DAL 2x, but they've been a pretty good team so far.
And again, the young Bulls have been injured.
Again, LaVine and Jabari and rook Carter Jr the only healthy decent players. And that's some seriously bad defense.
Mark, Dunn, Portis, Valentine out for long stretches.
Not a good team, very young, lots of injuries.
Jim Boylan?
He's going to make a difference?
Well, here's a good article on the roster turmoil during Hoiberg's tenure and the shifts in direction:
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25442532/the-bulls-fred-hoiberg-ton-work-left[edit: didn't notice it was Zach Lowe ... no wonder it's logn and in-depth]
A summation:
The bottom line is this: If you know after those three-plus seasons that Hoiberg is either a good or a bad NBA coach, I am both impressed and a little worried about the confidence you have in your convictions. I freely admit I have little idea. The Bulls have had zero on-court identity over that entire span, and a lot of that confusion -- likely most of it -- lays at the feet of Gar Forman and John Paxson above him.
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The Bulls -- Forman, Paxson, ownership -- did not put Hoiberg in a position to succeed. Chicago's failures post-Rose are more about their choices and franchise circumstances -- digging out from the Rose-Noah era -- than anything Hoiberg did in games or in practices.
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