On June 2, Chicago Bulls general manager Gar Forman introduced former Iowa State Cyclones head coach Fred Hoiberg as the successor to Tom Thibodeau. The turnover took seven days and involved no reported interviews with other candidates.
Hoiberg inherits a winning roster and is tasked with getting a perennial playoff team to reach its championship potential. If he’s going to have a shot at accomplishing that, he has to utilize his younger guys more than the previous coach did.
This team has six players under the age of 26: Cameron Bairstow, Jimmy Butler, Doug McDermott, Nikola Mirotic, E’Twaun Moore and Tony Snell.
Butler will certainly continue to be a part of the franchise’s big picture. It is the remainder of that grouping that needs to be better integrated into the new schemes if this team is going to make the leap it is hoping to accomplish with this change in sideline leadership.
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Chicago Bulls: Maximizing Young Players Should Be Top Priority for Fred Hoiberg
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