Thank you; bye, bye!

So what actually happened in the Skiles firing episode? Did the team give up on him or did he give up on the team? Though this firing was a surprise to everyone but Pax, Kruase, and maybe Wallace- Skiles has played the same card he usually does. Skiles is a builder of teams not a closer. Just as in Phoenix, the team and or coach became burned out on the team.

Skiles is actually quite a good coach, but only in an appropriate setting. He is, in fact, probably better than 50% of the coaches in the NBA-think Cleveland, N.Y., Memphis, LAC,Minn etc. With the season quickly slipping away, Pax pulled the trigger on Skiles. Paxon knows the Bulls probably won't get much better this year. This leads one to believe that the players and coach had given up on each other. Pete Myers will be the interim and Boylan may be the other interim. With Skiles out of the situation, its all on the players. They don't have a lineup that blends well and there is no flow to their game.

Perhaps its true as Wallace says, "he quit on us, so we quit on him." But a coach only quits on a team when he has exhausted all possibilities. After staying loyal to his starters for too long, Skiles finally brought in hungry youngsters. None of his combinations worked well this season. A coach can't play an entire team of youngsters and if the vets don't want to play, he's done.

So, in the end, Skiles moves on as he always does- winning his first few years until he loses the team. His bonus this time is that he gets to keep the remainder of his 6mil owed. The bulls also voided the offset rule that would negate his salary if he signs elsewhere. Skiles will definitely wind up somewhere next year if he chooses. But unless he adapts more to the veteran players, the results will be the same. I think the best place for Skiles would be in college. He could teach and indoctrinate his players and would be very effective with his knowledge of the game.