Fred Hoiberg talked about how comments from Jimmy Butler about how hard he coaches the team took on a life of their own on whether the players respond to him.

Butler said in mid-December that Hoiberg needed to coach the Bulls a lot harder.

"When I go back and look at different segments of the season, you know, we got off to a pretty solid start with this thing," said Hoiberg. Then some things happened. I think most of the that comes from the one comment that was made after the New York game by Jimmy. We have had some pretty heated moments with our group, in the locker roo, in film session.

"Would I change it? Would I be more vocal, more direct? Maybe. We’ll evaluate that when we go into the offseason."