Gar Forman needs to be held accountable
The Chicago Bulls continue to disappoint and the latest deflating moment for the team was their loss to the Charlotte Hornets on Monday.
The Chicago Bulls have many problems. The Bulls have a front office that foolishly thought the answer to their championship drought was firing Tom Thibodeau and hiring a quintessential yes man. The Bulls have a yes man as their head coach in the form of Fred Hoiberg. The Bulls have a roster that is not a fit with the system that Hoiberg is trying to run.
All these problems have resulted in the Bulls being 27-24 on the season and currently the 7th seed in the NBA Eastern Conference. In fact, the Bulls are only 1.5 games from being on the outside looking in when it comes to their eligibility for the playoffs.
There is no question that the Bulls’ 2015-2016 NBA regular season has been a disappointment. The common theme for the Bulls’ disappointing season has been that the team is lacking accountability. Accountable in the sense that the coaches are not holding the player accountable during practice, and the players are not holding each other accountable during games.
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But realistically, there is only one person that should be held accountable for the mess that is this Bulls’ team. No, it’s not Hoiberg. Hoiberg is the first year head coach and unfortunately got caught in the middle of a pissing match between the Bulls’ front office and former head coach Tom Thibodeau. No, it’s not the players. These are the same Bulls’ players that were routinely at the top of the Eastern Conference under Thibodeau. The person that needs to be held accountable is Bulls’ general manager Gar Forman.
Forman is the reason why Thibodeau is no longer the head coach of the Bulls. Forman felt as if Thibodeau was stepping on his toes and that is something that a head coach should not be doing to a general manager. At least, that is what Forman believes. While that may be a flawed thought, it’s not the reason why Forman should be held accountable.
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After orchestrating the firing of Thibodeau, Forman then hired his buddy Fred Hoiberg to be the next head coach of the Bulls. To Forman’s credit, Hoiberg had been among the top NBA coaching prospects. The only issue is that the Bulls did not really expand their search for a Thibodeau replacement beyond Hoiberg. Again, that is not the reason why Forman needs to be held accountable.
The reason why Forman needs to be held accountable is because of what he did after the Bulls hired Hoiberg–nothing. It’s standard procedure for a team to undergo a turnover with their roster after hiring a new head coach. The team often looks for players that fit the system of their new head coach. That is something the Bulls needed to do considering the stark differences between Hoiberg and Thibodeau.
Instead, Forman and the Bulls’ front office stood pat and wanted us to believe that the only thing that needed to change was the head coach. Now, Forman has been caught in a lie. Forman’s lie has put the Bulls back at least one season. That is unacceptable for any general manager and that is the reason why Forman needs to be held accountable for the Bulls’ disappointing season.
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