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Tom Thibodeau, a rumpled, 53-year-old bachelor, is the sort of guy who might
look at home selling vacuum cleaners or manning a backhoe. Instead, he
guided the Chicago Bulls to the NBA's best record this season and claimed
the league's Coach Of the Year award.
Before the Bulls bucked convention and hired him last June, he'd worked his
way up from coaching at his alma mater to joining the staff at Harvard and
spending more than two decades as a journeyman assistant with six NBA teams.
In 2008, he won his first NBA title as an assistant to Doc Rivers on the
Boston Celtics.
During his 21-year slog to the top, Thibodeau established himself as a
tireless worker and as something of a defensive savant. This season, the
Bulls led the league in the categories of field-goal-percentage defense and
rebounding margin—a fact that didn't come as a surprise to his friends and
advocates.
Former players have always had an advantage when it comes to nabbing head-
coaching jobs. Since the 1980-81 season, 45% of the league's coaches played
in the NBA or now-defunct American Basketball Association, according to
Stats Inc.
There's no evidence that former NBA players actually make better coaches.
Since the league's inception, they've combined for a .499 regular-season
winning percentage. Coaches who never played in the NBA have a .501 all-time
winning percentage. "There's no formula," Lucas said.
Thibodeau was an effective one-on-one teacher, citing the countless hours he
spent working with Yao Ming on his footwork and the daily handwritten notes
he made for each of the team's players.
The only danger with Thibodeau's success, Van Gundy said, is that the
stories people tell sometimes portray him as some sort of drone who has
prospered only by the volume of effort, rather than the quality. "He's not a
beaver building a dam," Van Gundy said. "He's not just a guy who works,
works, works. He also has a brilliant basketball mind." |
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