Name one.
93-94, 55 win team without the best player to ever play. 2 wins less than the previous year with said GOAT and a title.
Jerry Krause for
MVExec ? Or Jerry West...
You yourself called Pippen top 50 all time in another thread once. Someone was even proposing top 25. Was that you ? Horace Grant wasn't "great talent" at the 4 in 1994 ? Bulls-crap. You aren't claiming that, are you ? That was a pretty good defensive team even w/o MJ. Every one of those men had pride incentivizing them to "prove" that they weren't just Jordan's supporting cast.
Off on a tangent for a second here, but
that's^ a far cry from what happens when LBJ leaves the Cavs, huh ?
That^ kind of supports the LBJ=GOAT argument. And azzhats are going to point to his Finals record in individual comparison to Jordan. Compare Antawn Jamison to Grant for a minute.
Back about two or three of your usernames ago, maybe when Blatt got kicked to the curb, there was a conversation in the NBA forum here in which there was widespread agreement that the NBA HC has a lesser impact on the outcome of a game when compared to the other major sports. Jackson gets credit for installing that triangle offense, but how many of those 55 also happen with another excellent contemporary NBA coach ? I'd say most, and maybe one or two that "Phil lost" that year.
Jackson's greatest strength as a Head Coach and in establishing his legacy may have been choosing the right jobs.
Contrary to the idiot e_p's assertions, I never claimed Jackson wasn't a great coach. I slammed him as a GM and called him Mike Holmgren, but all I said in reference to his coaching career was - "He's not succeeded as a coach without an alpha like MJ or Kobe to set the tone, and maybe even be his 'bad cop'." - It's a great dynamic, and maybe even a necessity in an environment where many starters out-earn the Head Coach. The only real alternative is the Brady or Duncan humble star acquiescing to the Belichick or Pop type Coach. I don't believe for a minute that other top coaches could not have achieved very similar results with the same roster and opponents, that's all. Neither do you, unless you're a moron or Phil's mom.
The rest is either you lot being led around by his strawman argument or maybe simply piling on with your purple queen, like drod.