Scott Skiles Has a Job

There are a bunch of different reasons why the Chicago Bulls sucked so bad this year, but I think it became obvious during the latter part of the season that it wasn't because of anything Scott Skiles had been doing. Sure, the players tuned him out, but after seeing the way they played under Jim Boylan it appears it had less to do with Skiles than it did with the fact that they just didn't care.

Skiles, no matter his faults, is a good basketball coach, and it was only a matter of time before he found another job. He found one too, a couple of miles up the road on I-294.

A newspaper report says the Bucks have offered their coaching job to former Chicago Bulls and Phoenix Suns head man Scott Skiles.

A league source tells the Journal Sentinel that the Bucks have given Skiles "an offer he can't refuse," but the report doesn't give specifics on that offer.

Apparently the Bucks stuck a horse's head with a contract stapled to it in Skiles' bed over night.

This is a good move for Milwuakee, as they're currently a young team that seems to have no sense of direction. Skiles is exactly the type of coach that a team would want in such a situation, as the Bulls were much the same way when Skiles took over here, and he got them to the playoffs.

Plus, since he's in Milwaukee, he's going to get four chances a season to stick it to the Bulls. Scott was also considered to be one of the top candidates to take the Knicks job, but the situation in New York has gotten so bad he actually chose Milwaukee over them. Which means that at this point, the Knicks job is ABC analyst Mark Jackson's to lose.