Frank Breakfast Styleham
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Hey everyone. As always, I'm way behind on the messages, being so far away, and so if this has already been discussed please forgive me.
As much as I love Vinny Del Negro as coach, it appears we're on the verge of another search for head coach of the Bulls.
If you ran the Bulls who are your top 3 guys to bring in for an interview? Who would you woo? Who would you want to hire as the 21st coach of your Chicago Bulls?
Here's what I would do if I ran the Bulls...my top 10 coaches I would interview and want.
My number one choice?
1. Larry Brown.
Very likely to step down once the Bobcats get swept by Orlando. Says this is his last gig, which is what he said when he was coaching Detroit which was before he was coaching New York, which is what he said before he coached Charlotte. I would call him and dangle a lucrative 3-year 10 million a year contract carrot in his face.
That would be perfect for him. When you hire Larry Brown you know going in that it isn't going to be for long. It's a Larry King marriage. But more than anything, you KNOW your team is going to be dramatically better by year 2 and that you will contend for the title.
I've said many times on this forum that I think Larry Brown is the greatest coach in the history of the NBA. He doesn't have Red Aurerbach and Phil Jackson's championships but then again Larry Brown hasn't ever had the benefit of coaching the team with THE premier player in the entire world as those guys NEVER were without, except the one year Jordan was gone.
Plus Larry Brown isn't afraid to coach a dog where your best player is Loy Vaught, and if given at least 2 years ALWAYS takes you to the playoffs. ALWAYS. This guy is the best. How many NCAA championship teams did Phil Jackson coach? Larry Brown took one of the worst Clipper teams EVER to the playoffs. He took a Spurs team that had won about 4 games the previous year to the playoffs. He won a title with Detroit. He nearly won another in Philly. He's the best.
Larry Brown isn't afraid to coach anyONE anyWHERE.
Larry Brown is the man for this job. At the very WORST, he would take the Bulls to the Eastern Conference Finals.
If he didn't want to come?
2. Doc Rivers - also rumored to be done in Boston. He's a Chicago boy. He already has roots here. He has a ring. I'd offer Doc 12 million a year and here's why - he's a lot younger than Larry Brown, he could commit to at least 3 or 4 years and he has a proven track record of connecting with players as well as any other coach in the game. Doc's worth a ring.
3. Patrick Ewing - Ewing has more than paid his dues as a professional assistant coach and still has yet to have anyone believe in him enough to offer him a head coaching position. I would bring Patrick in for an interview. I really have a good feeling about this guy - I think whoever hires him as their head coach isn't going to regret it for a single second.
4. Bill Laimbeer - Also has more than paid his dues as a pro coach and yet unbelievably, has been overlooked as well. He coached one of the most storied dynasties in WNBA history, he was a superstar in the NBA for more than a decade, he's gritty and tough, and he's got so many rings he has to use both his hands just to fit them all. Bill Laimbeer would make an excellent coach of the Bulls for a very long time.
5. Mike Dunleavy - Has such a bad taste in his mouth from his last coaching gig I can see him lighting it up wherever his next stop is just to show the Clippers he is an NBA coach.
6. Jeff Hornacek - We brought him in for some interviews a few years ago and I think we should consider him once again. Horny would be a good coach.
7. Mike Fratello - It's never a bad idea to pick up the phone and call the Czar. He has the greatest basketball mind and highest NBA IQ of anyone I've ever seen. He could get us to the Promised land.
8. Charles Barkley - Here's the curveball. Now, Charles has told us in the past that he doesn't want to coach. But if you offered him the keys to all those Porsches (D-Rose, Hinrich, Deng, Noah, Miller, Taj Gibson, etc.) he would be swayed.
Even if he doesn't turn out to be the best coach in the world, the place would be PACKED every night - every game would be a sellout. Can you IMAGINE how fun Charles Barkley would make Chicago Bulls basketball again? The press conferences? Knocking mascots down during timeouts? Him screaming in an officials face and getting ejected? It might just be the greatest spectacle in the history of our nation. The place would be a zoo! You take him off that TNT set and put him on the Bulls bench and suddenly Chicago Bulls basketball is the funnest thing in the world.
9. Rick Pitino - As we all know, Rick suffered and struggled away in Boston but I think he's learned his lesson and could be ready to coach in the NBA again. He has so much static from his sex scandal, getting away from Lousiville and all the drama recruiting college kids might just be best for him. I could SO see him coaching Derrick Rose and making him a better player. These guys are still young and to have a coach whose style is to coach teenagers and players in their young 20's would be a brilliant franchise move.
10. Chris Ford - It's a shame this guy still isn't coaching. I've always loved and appreciated his coaching style and think he deserves another shot. If I couldn't get any of those guys above I'd pick up the phone and offer him the gig in a heartbeat.
And I didn't mention him but COACH K ANYBODY!? Maybe...just maybe...he's refusing to coach in the NBA because the worst team in the past decade (the Nets) is offering the job to him. If a big-name market like the Bulls offered him 20 million a year to coach over the next 8 years...he would do it.
If you bring in COACH K to be the coach, do you THINK LeBron James and Dwyane Wade aren't going to follow?
If you get Coach K you get LeBron, Wade, and the next 8 championships. The Jordan Dynasty will seem as nothing.
As much as I love Vinny Del Negro as coach, it appears we're on the verge of another search for head coach of the Bulls.
If you ran the Bulls who are your top 3 guys to bring in for an interview? Who would you woo? Who would you want to hire as the 21st coach of your Chicago Bulls?
Here's what I would do if I ran the Bulls...my top 10 coaches I would interview and want.
My number one choice?
1. Larry Brown.
Very likely to step down once the Bobcats get swept by Orlando. Says this is his last gig, which is what he said when he was coaching Detroit which was before he was coaching New York, which is what he said before he coached Charlotte. I would call him and dangle a lucrative 3-year 10 million a year contract carrot in his face.
That would be perfect for him. When you hire Larry Brown you know going in that it isn't going to be for long. It's a Larry King marriage. But more than anything, you KNOW your team is going to be dramatically better by year 2 and that you will contend for the title.
I've said many times on this forum that I think Larry Brown is the greatest coach in the history of the NBA. He doesn't have Red Aurerbach and Phil Jackson's championships but then again Larry Brown hasn't ever had the benefit of coaching the team with THE premier player in the entire world as those guys NEVER were without, except the one year Jordan was gone.
Plus Larry Brown isn't afraid to coach a dog where your best player is Loy Vaught, and if given at least 2 years ALWAYS takes you to the playoffs. ALWAYS. This guy is the best. How many NCAA championship teams did Phil Jackson coach? Larry Brown took one of the worst Clipper teams EVER to the playoffs. He took a Spurs team that had won about 4 games the previous year to the playoffs. He won a title with Detroit. He nearly won another in Philly. He's the best.
Larry Brown isn't afraid to coach anyONE anyWHERE.
Larry Brown is the man for this job. At the very WORST, he would take the Bulls to the Eastern Conference Finals.
If he didn't want to come?
2. Doc Rivers - also rumored to be done in Boston. He's a Chicago boy. He already has roots here. He has a ring. I'd offer Doc 12 million a year and here's why - he's a lot younger than Larry Brown, he could commit to at least 3 or 4 years and he has a proven track record of connecting with players as well as any other coach in the game. Doc's worth a ring.
3. Patrick Ewing - Ewing has more than paid his dues as a professional assistant coach and still has yet to have anyone believe in him enough to offer him a head coaching position. I would bring Patrick in for an interview. I really have a good feeling about this guy - I think whoever hires him as their head coach isn't going to regret it for a single second.
4. Bill Laimbeer - Also has more than paid his dues as a pro coach and yet unbelievably, has been overlooked as well. He coached one of the most storied dynasties in WNBA history, he was a superstar in the NBA for more than a decade, he's gritty and tough, and he's got so many rings he has to use both his hands just to fit them all. Bill Laimbeer would make an excellent coach of the Bulls for a very long time.
5. Mike Dunleavy - Has such a bad taste in his mouth from his last coaching gig I can see him lighting it up wherever his next stop is just to show the Clippers he is an NBA coach.
6. Jeff Hornacek - We brought him in for some interviews a few years ago and I think we should consider him once again. Horny would be a good coach.
7. Mike Fratello - It's never a bad idea to pick up the phone and call the Czar. He has the greatest basketball mind and highest NBA IQ of anyone I've ever seen. He could get us to the Promised land.
8. Charles Barkley - Here's the curveball. Now, Charles has told us in the past that he doesn't want to coach. But if you offered him the keys to all those Porsches (D-Rose, Hinrich, Deng, Noah, Miller, Taj Gibson, etc.) he would be swayed.
Even if he doesn't turn out to be the best coach in the world, the place would be PACKED every night - every game would be a sellout. Can you IMAGINE how fun Charles Barkley would make Chicago Bulls basketball again? The press conferences? Knocking mascots down during timeouts? Him screaming in an officials face and getting ejected? It might just be the greatest spectacle in the history of our nation. The place would be a zoo! You take him off that TNT set and put him on the Bulls bench and suddenly Chicago Bulls basketball is the funnest thing in the world.
9. Rick Pitino - As we all know, Rick suffered and struggled away in Boston but I think he's learned his lesson and could be ready to coach in the NBA again. He has so much static from his sex scandal, getting away from Lousiville and all the drama recruiting college kids might just be best for him. I could SO see him coaching Derrick Rose and making him a better player. These guys are still young and to have a coach whose style is to coach teenagers and players in their young 20's would be a brilliant franchise move.
10. Chris Ford - It's a shame this guy still isn't coaching. I've always loved and appreciated his coaching style and think he deserves another shot. If I couldn't get any of those guys above I'd pick up the phone and offer him the gig in a heartbeat.
And I didn't mention him but COACH K ANYBODY!? Maybe...just maybe...he's refusing to coach in the NBA because the worst team in the past decade (the Nets) is offering the job to him. If a big-name market like the Bulls offered him 20 million a year to coach over the next 8 years...he would do it.
If you bring in COACH K to be the coach, do you THINK LeBron James and Dwyane Wade aren't going to follow?
If you get Coach K you get LeBron, Wade, and the next 8 championships. The Jordan Dynasty will seem as nothing.
