I would love for Krause to answer some real questions as well in response to his 'claims'
1. Yes they offered phil 'longer term deals' and he didn't want them because he did not want to work with Krause to rebuild a team. Thus he wanted to wait and see what everyone (MJ, Pipp, Rodman, etc) did after each year. This team was a special case and needed to be re-evaluated each year.
2. While Krause always claims he wanted Phil back, he never mentions how he hired Tim Floyd before they made a decision on Phil. Krause and Reinsdorf knew that once they hired Floyd as "President of Basketball Operations" Phil would be gone, then Jordan would follow.
3. Krause claims almost all his players were"DONE" and he uses the poor years they all had once they left? Maybe they were not that good and someone made them better? To claim you let guys go and 'Just the right time" is just stroking your own ego. Krause knows that every other GM knew it, when he tried to trade BJ for a 2nd round pick the year after he was an ALL STAR and couldn't get anything for him.
4.I am not one to say that Bulls had to go on, but the guys who should have made the call are Phil, Scottie and MJ. If they met and wanted to make one more run, they more than earned that right to do so.
5. Jerry Krause, GM, for 6 years after Jordan created the WORST 6 YEAR RUN N NBA HISTORY OF ANY TEAM EVER.
6. While I didn't expect Krause to land any superstars in the draft during the 90's, how about a guy sticking in the league? The only guy he drafted that stuck was Jason Caffey and 23 kids.
7. Reinsdorf is also to blame, as he knew how much money he would make right after Jordan left. UC paid for, Payroll ready to drop almost 50%, season ticket holders in pocket. He had no issue with Jordan leaving.
I have my person stories about interactions with Krause that don't paint him in the greatest light on many levels, but I will give him his due for 2 things.
A. Never once said anything bad about his own players no matter how much they ripped him, which kept the value of these guys that played with Jordan higher than it was, yet he still didn't turn that into as much as he should have.
B. He was a terrible evaluator of college talent, but was decent at recognizing talent in the NBA and what was needed to supplement Jordan. I think tons of GM could also have done this, but I will give Krause his due for Cartwright and the TRADE for Luc Longley even if I did tell him, to his face no less than 10 times, about Luc Longley while at New Mexico and instead he drated the "chest shooting" so called Center, Stacy King from Oklahoma.
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