Brown would be late to hotel checkout just to send a message

They may get involved … to shed more salary

Jaylen Brown has a gigantic contract so maybe the plan is to use him to get over the salary floor while paying everyone else as little as possible.

what does that have to do with spending on coaching lol

As a bucks fan Im OK rolling the dice on the ‘28 and ‘30 pick swaps with Portland.

Breaking: Chauncey Billups has returned to the Trailblazers after losing a high stakes poker game to Thomas Dundon. It is understood to be a 4-year deal to pay Dundon back by coaching the team in lieu of a paycheck. Adam Silver had announced an investigation may or may not be taking place to look into whether or not to investigate the matter. 

What he is going to realize is the NBA is not the NHL. Cheap has NEVER won in the NFL, NBA, or MLB.

I wouldn’t say he was weak. He’s a perfect fit for the Bulls.

But the reality here is that no one who is outraged watched the Blazers.

I would’ve been 100% okay with bringing him back. The season had a lot of adversity from an injury + chauncey standpoint. But also, in a ton of major scheme/coaching metrics Blazers were dead last. Past the tanking teams on a ton of things like inbounding efficiency, ATO vs Half court offense, challenges were not good, 3pt shooting scheme was poor.

X’s and O’s were the Blazers enemy all season. He’ll have a lot more room to grow on the Bulls and get better in those areas imo.

no idea why everyone is jumping onto this train lmao. dundon might be cheap, but it’s not like splitter was someone we had to lockdown lmfao, the fanbase is pretty split on him

splitter was a pretty weak coach for portland

I wouldn’t go this far. But he also wasn’t a GREAT coach, either. He was exponentially better than Billups, yes. But seeing as Billups was a fuckin idiot, arguably one of the worst coaches of ANY sport in the 21st century, and was also a fuckin mafia-stooge… Like, what’s the bar we’re holding Splitter to here, really?

Most people getting in on this roast (and to be clear: El Cheapo deserves all the roasting he gets) don’t watch Blazers games, don’t pay attention to Blazers games, have probably never even seen a full game from tip to final buzzer outside of this years first round (and even then…)

Splitter was great vibes, and he kept that team together. But the Blazers basically never had an offense, and they lived and died by their hustle and their streaky shooting. Splitter never really instilled any legitimate structure for them to work in. Great vibes and talent taking the next step (Avdija, Clingan, Camara) got em to the 7th seed. But they probably could have maybe won 5-10 more games if he knew how to draw up any sort of plays for his guys, not just in the halfcourt, but inbounding, too.

Because Dundon is cheap then people are assuming everything against him is the greatest move ever.

Splitter was fine but had a lot of flaws. I am not losing sleep over not having him again.

It’s actually blowing my mind. Living in Portland and following the team closely, it’s crazy that the overall consensus from NBA fans is good hire for Chicago, cheap loss for the blazers. Tiago seems like a good guy, but he’s a below average to average basketball coach. He’d get out coached by any playoff caliber coach, it’s not hate it’s just a fact.

I think weak is a bit harsh but yeah he wasn’t anything special. I would’ve been okay if he stayed but I’m also okay with not bringing him back

It’s all memes because of the new ownership but this really doesn’t feel like much of a loss.

Hell status: Frozen.

Which is crazy because Jerry is the kind of guy to ask if the bread is free before asking to split an order of it with his date.

bro needs his upvotes soooo bad

Who took their second round pick? Was it the Bulls too?

It does seem slightly premature. He navigated a very difficult situation, for sure, but the whole team was in it together. I don’t know if another team will respond to him out of the blue like Portland did.

That’s one of the things that can be learned and grown into as a new HC. The fact that he massively over-performed with what everyone assumed was going to be a mid-at-best Blazers team is enough to give him a flyer.

He took over a team from Billups who has done nothing and took them to the play in tournament and playoffs in one sesson.

Right now the Bulls need a culture setter and a guy who can lead a locker room. They’re not looking to make the finals this season. The play-calling can come later. They just need a guy who can get the younger players to work together and build with each other.

I mean, he randomly had to step up and become head coach after everything went down. He still lead a dysfunctional team to the playoffs in his first year as head coach. He has tons of potential to become a good head coach.

Bulls join the bears as an absolute offseason juggernaut

STOP THE COUNT

They also lost the offseason, unfortunately

The Bears passed the tourch.

isn’t the bulls owner known as one of the biggest cheapos in sports?

all the non-blazers fans just jumping onto the only narrative they’ve been told

You may be mad about it when you’re paying a high school coach 250k a year lol

I mean the turnovers can be attributed to a lack of ball handlers to some degree and lack of ATO scoring is almost certainly tied to the lack of shooting & ball handling on the team. He definitely could be better, but teaching & keeping good vibes are the main things you want on a young team like the Bulls and he can learn that stuff on the job.

Also it shouldn’t be surprising that a young coach who came into the year as an assistant, got thrown into the job after a few games cause the HC got arrested isn’t the best at the HC duties. It wasn’t even the guys job until it got thrown at him lmao

Overall he beat expectations, but I’m kind of glad we’re going to try someone else.

I think any new coach was going to beat expectations because any coach was an improvement over Billups.

You alluded to allowing teams to go on massive runs in the 2nd half, I think that’s a School of Popovich thing. He’d make adjustments at half time and your ass better execute the plan. He’s said it before during a timeout in a game, I’ve already giving you what you need to do, you’re just not executing this is on you guys. Granted the Blazers don’t have a big 3, but Splitter is from that Spurs era and played thru those runs and he probably believes that’s what makes the players better. Last season the Blazers weren’t supposed to contend so he probably wanted the players to play thru it and learn

We conclude from our analysis that while comebacks frequently occur after a run, it is slightly disadvantageous to call a timeout during a run by the opposing team and further demonstrate that the magnitude of this effect varies by franchise.

Actually when they studied that adage about taking timeouts during opposing runs they found prevailing wisdom was wrong, and it’s actually slightly worse to take a timeout during a run rather than pushing through.

Your best gameplan was probably what you were already doing, trying to ad-hoc react on the fly to possession by possession outcomes as opposed to holistic matchup scheming tends to lead you to make suboptimal decisions informed by small sample size interactions as opposed to your broader philosophies.

I think Splitter has that mentality to trust your guys in the moment, he’s very much a player empowerment coach as evidenced by the read and react system he implemented that trusts the players processing and decision making over prescriptive set plays.

Ooooh rank them. Who is number 2? Malik Rose? Nazr Mohammed?

Probably not no but definetly has pulled off some shit off the dribble. Only one way to find out and that’s giving him the ball more. Splitter should be really good for the offense overall

I think he could but shit Giddey might benefit more from that.

Bulls offered two bags of chips, how was miserly Portland to compete??

Priced out by Jerry Reinsdorf? What is this, a coaching salary for ants??

non blazer fans really don’t know 😭

He’ll get paid in exposure.

An intern!

Having a HOF coach doesn’t hurt either. Rod the Bod is the man

Popovich Basketball Association.

Almost like Pop was a good coach or something

The big trees are pop, Riley and Larry Brown iirc. I feel like this comes up yearly.

Who said that?

Don’t forget his own staff. When you’re rushed in like him or Mazzulla and you don’t have time to bring in your own staff, every one else is jealous they weren’t the one who got picked.

So an experienced assistant coach would probably be highly recommended?