Did Scott Skiles Propose His Own Firing?

Trying to protect himself is my guess. Wildly reported that he met with Ben Wallace and Big Ben’s agent (who’s name I forget, but he’s a close personal friend of Reinsdorf) just days before the firing.

Skiles refused to comment. Not sure it’s an altogether true statement from the Bulls owner. Either way Skiles knew the writing was on the wall weeks before he was fired.

Wildly huh …. well maybe the reporters were jumping up and down and actind like lunatics declaring to the World the inner workings of the Bulls …. or maybe I made another typo! Widely!

Here’s a piece from KC Johnson in Chicago, he’s a good beat writer:

Joking that the fallout is the precise reason he doesn’t like doing interviews, Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf clarified comments he made regarding Scott Skiles’ firing.

“Scott told [general manager] John [Paxson], ‘I think this team might need a new voice,’ " Reinsdorf said Sunday at the United Center. "I can’t believe I was so sloppy with my words. Scott did an excellent job here.”[/quote]

The clarification were the exact comments from above. His initial comments implied that Skiles was begging out from the job which seemed to be causing some unhappy responses from inside the Bulls. So maybe it was an attempt to further steady the ship.

[quote]I don’t believe Scott would say that or quit on us," Deng said. “For whatever reason, things weren’t working out.”[/quote]

[quote]"Scott would never quit on a team," interim coach Jim Boylan said.