There were no fans allowed in at the United Center Wednesday night as the Knicks and Bulls matched up for the second time in three nights, so no chance for the local crowd to express their opinion on the return of Tom Thibodeau to the sidelines in the city.
But what there was even without the crowd was a lesson of what the Bulls once had and what they haven’t had since. Two nights after the Knicks fell to the Bulls, they faced off in the rematch and while the names on the jerseys were the same the Knicks looked like a completely different group.