coldfish wrote:Louri wrote:Lauri didn’t stand in corner 24/7 and Lavine shot many mid-range shots. Win. Boylen is loosing it?
The whole organization, from ownership to the players, is trying to figure out how to play offense in this era. Its kind of sad. You can just feel the confusion about how to apply analytics. They definitely over-applied them to start this year. Hopefully they start learning.
As a part of this, the offense is a mess. I am regularly seeing them trying new sets and tweak things. While its nice that they are trying something else, that isn't winning basketball. You win by having a good system and then executing it well. The Bulls clearly don't believe in their own system, let alone execute it well.
When you go back to last year, the system kind of stunk but it was simple and players were executing it so they got results. I don't have the skill to do this but I would love to videotape a game and break down the offense for people here. The number of times I see players who are clearly confused about where they are supposed to be or go is astounding. Its amateurish.
The really frustrating thing is that while you can pick apart this teams’ athleticism, speed and length... these are all relatively high IQ and/or extremely coachable players with great attitudes.
Further compounded by having many PGs on the floor at once, who while they’re not good players (Sato, Arci, Dunn) are by nature the “highest IQ” types of players in the game.
It’s been mind-boggling to me that running a system has been this roster’s biggest problem. I understand that Coby and Zach can shoot bad shots, but these aren’t knuckleheads trying to get theirs.
Last I checked... Jabari, Bobby and Payne are off the team.
I thought Hoiberg was the worst coach since VDN and Floyd, but I have no doubt in my mind that Boylen is equally bad if not worse in some regards... because I actually think a hands-off autonomy in players might actually benefit their careers more than being jerked out funky systems and positional assignments that make you over-think and shoot career low percentages and burn your legs out on defense.
Learning experiences? Sure. But some other team will benefit from these players when they leave after their value and confidence plummeted. If the Bulls want to be a G-League Development team, then have at it. The Windy City Bulls exist, after all. At the United Center, you should be winning games or tanking, not trying hard and losing, the dreaded in-between.
Boylen might be the world’s greatest G-League coach. Get the undisciplined or fringe chippers to play elite aggressive defense. But this Bulls team needs to maximize his players’ offensive strengths. Besides Zach going iso, it’s been the opposite.
