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COACH BIBBY?: A large chunk of Mike Bibby’s summer was spent coaching basketball as opposed to playing. As the shot-called on his son’s AAU team, Bibby has a new perspective on the game, sort of.

“It was a good time,” he said of his summer spent running the show in a different way. “I was coaching my son, which is about as good as it gets.”

Now that he’s back to playing to the whistle instead of blowing one, Bibby’s eager to get his timing back. And perhaps more importantly, he’s eager to see where he fits going into the final year of his contract.

“It goes by fast, It does go by fast. But I still got some left,” Bibby said and smiled. “Last year I came in and just tried to fit in. You don’t want to come in and try and do too much. It was the same way when I got to Sacramento [from Vancouver]. You want to come in and fit in and just see how things play out.”

Things played out particularly well, with the Hawks earning the franchise’s first postseason berth in nearly a decade with Bibby piloting the ship.

But he struggled in the series against Boston, something that he shook off immediately after that Game 7 loss but has not forgotten.

“I think we definitely could have beaten them,” Bibby said. “We just didn’t play well on the road at all, and I mean at all. But things happen for a reason. Maybe that was the start for us to excel this season.”

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