Chicago Bulls Forward Thaddeus Young Says He Contemplated Retirement When Playing For Former Coach Jim Boylen

Chicago Bulls forward Thaddeus Young is having a career resurgence under new coach Billy Donovan. After being looked over last season, Young is now averaging 12.4 PPG, and has forced his way into the Bulls’ starting rotation.

A lot of Thaddeus Young’s career revival is likely due to Jim Boylen no longer being his coach. Boylen’s tenure in Chicago was wholly forgettable, with a lot of the team looking better this season.

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Young was interviewed on NBC Sports Chicago’s Bulls Talk Podcast and revealed just how tough last season was for him.

“Last year, was real tough on me. It was real tough on me. I actually thought about last year, ‘Man, after this I’m done.’ Just because it was so bad last year to the point, where, like, I had never really been frustrated and I had gotten so frustrated with just like a lot of the stuff that was going on to the point where it was like ‘Is it even worth it for the team to even deal with it?’”

Thad Young was real honest about how frustrating last season was… to the point he even thought about retiring. Special shoutout to @Mrs___Young21 for keeping him going.

New Bulls Talk Pod 🎧: https://t.co/NcpRXc8cKy pic.twitter.com/HydtrdRmuU

— Bulls Talk (@NBCSBulls) April 13, 2021

Thaddeus Young credited his wife for keeping him going during the tough times, and sounds like he has a new perspective.

“I was like, man, you know what hopefully we make some changes. I’m not even saying if we would have made the changes with the coaching situation, if we just made changes as far as how we played as a team. Like, felt like we were being listened to as far as how we need to play and how things need to be structured. Then, I would have been much more happy, because I wouldn’t have felt like we weren’t going into every single game taking a knife into a gun fight.”

Thad Young refrained from calling Jim Boylen out, but fans all seemed to think that’s who he was talking about with these comments.

Jim Boylen after reading this…. pic.twitter.com/VlwQu32nfF

— Bobby C (@Bcon32) April 13, 2021

I died when he said he went into Boylens office and asked “are we tryina develop or we tryina win”
And Boylen said “we’re doing both.” I can imagine his ass 😂 https://t.co/0ifzCJfBKT

— Tony! Toni! Toné! (@TrexSauce) April 13, 2021

https://t.co/2wADKNtZDM pic.twitter.com/wnWCPtppwE

— Miguel Flores (@THE_MFLORES) April 13, 2021

Blame Boylen https://t.co/mSL4ChzGWp

— Mark Anthony (@iLLiPin0) April 13, 2021

Imagine paying Jom Boylen and to be a head coach. https://t.co/cOJieUUzZw

— Derek Wagner (@djwagss) April 13, 2021

Thaddeus Young and the Bulls are currently suffering from a skid, and have taken themselves out of playoff position. However, it appears that the team is in a much better place than they were last year, and that there is some reason for optimism in Chicago.

At the very least, Jim Boylen isn’t the coach anymore. That counts for something…just ask Thaddeus Young.

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