his career. Head coaching record College NBA |- | style="text-align:left;"|Chicago | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||62||20|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||16||9||7|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Finals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Chicago | style="text-align:left;"| | 66||50||16|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||6||2||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|Chicago | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||45||37|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Central ||12||5||7|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Chicago | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||48||34|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Central ||5||1||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|Chicago | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||50||32|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Central ||12||6||6|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Minnesota | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||31||51|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Northwest||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Minnesota | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||47||35|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Northwest||5||1||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|Minnesota | style="text-align:left;"| | 40||19||21|||| style="text-align:center;"|(fired)||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|— |- | style="text-align:left;"|New York | style="text-align:left;"| | 72||41||31|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Atlantic||5||1||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|New York | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||37||45|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Atlantic||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 752||430||322|||| ||61||25||36|||| Coaching style In his five years as the head coach of the Chicago Bulls, the franchise was 255–139 ( winning percentage), and led the league in close-game winning percentage at (66–40). Thibodeau has been compared to legendary NFL coach Bill Belichick because of his attention to detail, organization, and game planning. “[Thibodeau] was meticulously organized, almost scary organized, and he reminded me of Bill Belichick. I’ve spent a lot of time with Belichick and Thibodeau’s got a lot of the same mannerisms, the same attention to detail that Belichick has. And that’s about the highest compliment I could give someone," said Rick Pitino. "[Thibodeau is] very similar to Bill Belichick if you ever to go to a Bill Belichick practice,” said former NBA player Brian Scalabrine. “Every smallest detail of his practice is talked about. Every pass has to be seamed. Every shot has to be quick and balanced. Every pick-and-roll you have to come off shoulder-to-hip,” said Scalabrine. He has been called "one of the best coaches in the NBA", sometimes ranking among the top five coaches in the league among NBA general managers. He was ranked 13th best coach in 2017 by ESPN, despite the Timberwolves finishing outside of playoff contention. Highly regarded as a defensive strategist, in January 2013, ESPN praised Thibodeau's defensive system as "the pinnacle of team defensive strategy in the NBA." However, according to a 2010 Boston Globe article, "one of the many