>Fact: Jordan never got out of the first round without Krause,
>Pippen, or Phil, or any of the players that Krause brought
>along. However, when jordan retired, all of them nearly
>advanced to the ECF.
>

Eh, this is pretty misleading though. Jordan only played 3 seasons without them - one of which he was hurt most of the year, and all at the very beginning of his career before he had hit his prime.

The Bulls advanced to round 2 in 88 when Pippen and Grant were role players averaging 7 ppg each off the bench.

The Bulls made the ECF in 89 before either of them was all star level.

We can’t act like a prime, healthy Mike wouldn’t have taken almost any team to at least round 2 in ‘94.

Any of these “Mike NEVER did so and so” statements that in reality are based on his first couple seasons of his career.....I just tune those out. Those aren’t genuine points.

Now would the Bulls have eventually been able to rebuild around TMac in the early 00s? Maybe. He would’ve been a hell of a piece. But it would’ve taken a few years and all of the pieces from the 90s Bulls would’ve been long gone. Who really knows who they would’ve gotten to play with TMac by then?

Yes, Krause did a good job in building around MJ, as you pointed out.

As good as TMac ended up being, he wasn’t MJ. The early-mid 00s East was so wack, that you would think a good GM would’ve at least built a team that could win the East around a TMac. But building a dynasty around him?

He was way too pressed to flush away another title to start his rebuild IMO.