Lol wut. Terrible coach for the modern NBA? What time period were those Rose-less Bulls that still got 40 + wins and a trip to the finals playing in, the 80's?
He went to a Minnesota team that was soft as excrement, tried bringing in a little jam to the squad and as soon as Butler got there he saw how soft Wiggins and KAT was and said "freak this." And who can blame him? Andrew Wiggins sucks donkey derriere and KAT will NEVER be a winning player unless he's a third or fourth fiddle on an alpha squad.
Thibs made the conference finals once, in 2010-11 (i.e. a decade ago), and last made the conference semifinals in 2014-15. To give him the most credit possible, let's use numbers from 2014-15, also his last year in Chicago.
In 2014-15, teams shot 7.8/22.4 on 3s per game (35%) and scored 100 PPG. The league's top offense averaged 110 PPG. And that was at the beginning of the 3-point revolution.
In 2019-20, teams shot 12.1/33.9 on 3s per game (35.7%, averaging 50% more attempted per game) and scored 111 PPG (AVERAGING 1 more than the league's leading scorer in 2014-15). The top scoring team averaged 118.6 PPG.
In 2014-15, Blake Griffin shot 25 3-pointers total in 80 games played. In 2018-19, he shot 7.0 per game.
In 2014-15, Robin Lopez shot 10 3-pointers total. In 2018-19, he shot 6.3 per game.
It's a completely different NBA now. Hiring Thibs would be a pointless hark back to the past unless he's adapted his coaching style, which I'm guessing is unlikely.
