Chicago Bulls: Grading front office, coaching staff 60 games in
Front Office
Now is where the real problems begin to dispell for the Chicago Bulls over the course of the three years or this rebuild. Vice president of basketball operations John Paxson and general manager Gar Forman have done little to nothing to produce significant results through this rebuild up to this point. The Bulls had the same amount of wins at the All-Star Break this year than they did during the first year of the rebuild.
Moreover, GarPax hasn’t seen any of the fruits of their labor from last offseason pay off yet. Veteran power forward Thaddeus Young seemed unhappy with his role for much of the regular season and combo guard Tomas Satoransky isn’t benefiting at all from a bigger spotlight in the Windy City than he had with the Washington Wizards.
Even the big trade deadline deal GarPax pulled off last year, sending Jabari Parker and Bobby Portis to the Wizards in exchange for OPJ, hasn’t paid off in the slightest so far this season. Much of the ineffectiveness of OPJ so far was due to the foot fracture he was recovering from this season, but he wasn’t the best when healthy for the nine games at the outset of this campaign.
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There has to be something that gives this summer when it comes to shaking things up in the front office. Forman seems like his role dwindled down to not much more than a little bit of scouting responsibility and an empty title of general manager. Meanwhile, Paxson is doing his best to fade off into the distance while the Reinsdorfs stand by idly watching everything collapse.