Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau led the team to a 62-20 record in the 2010-2011 regular season and won the NBA Coach of the Year Award. Bulls' fans were ecstatic. This seemed to be the best turn of a lucky card since the Bulls won the lottery to draft Derrick Rose . The Bulls walked through the Eastern Conference rather easily... until they met the Miami Heat. That's when Tom Thibodeau and Bulls' fans should have learned a lesson, namely that regular season wins are about as valuable as Pogs these days. The Heat lost game one to the Bulls, then swept them out of the playoffs without expending real effort, despite the Bulls dominating the regular season series. Lesson learned, right? Wrong. Coach Thibodeau started the lockout-shortened 2011-2012 right where he left off, grinding his players into dust to win meaningless regular season games. The injuries began immediately. Deng, Hamilton, but most importantly, league MVP Derrick Rose. Rose suffered five separate injuries this season, and each time he was rushed back onto the court, or at least allowed to return to the court against his better interests by a coach who seems to have no concept of how the human body works. Well, Coach Thibodeau's obsession with maintaining a level of intensity in circumstances when any reasonable coach would allow his players to rest, caught up with Chicago Bulls today when...
Rip Hamilton is finally ready to play.
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