Marc Stein recently wrote an article about the Chicago Bulls’ head coach, Fred Hoiberg, being on the hot seat. While this came as a surprise for some around the league, Spurs fans may understand why.
The Bulls aren’t a horrible team — the Spurs split with them this year and beat them on Christmas — but at 16-17, and after missing the playoffs last year, they are well below the 50-win standard Tom Thibodeau established in his five year campaign in Chicago (the Bulls averaged 51 wins under his tenure playing without Derrick Rose for much of that time).