Phil also was a master manipulator of the press and controlling stories.
Anyone ever hear of the stuff with his mistress and wife and him sending the wrong package to the wrong woman and having to live in a hotel? Infidelity isn’t a career-killer, but no one was covering that like they were the other stories, and that’s just one example.
Phil wanted out. He knew he had helped make a villain in Krause, and Reinsdorf wasn’t going to stick his neck out. Not saying Krause doesn’t deserve scorn (he absolutely did).
This zen-master, hippie guy is partially true, but the dude is a stone-cold killer when he wants to achieve something. Prob why he was so good coaching superstars.
Krause was a good GM who is like the guy who needs to be validated even though he is doing a great job.
Krause drafted Pippen, Grant, found Phil Jackson and did a good job finding talent.
His problem was the Napoleon complex. Michael Jordan was why the organization won if he understood that Jordan wouldn’t have bullied him that hard.
Krause did what Reinsdorf wanted done with the ending. Krause put his foot in the mouth saying this was Jackson’s last season before the season. If he stays quiet he doesn’t get killed publicly but saying the team could go 82-0 and he wasn’t coming back.
That kills Krause in the court of public opinion.
Phil clearly wanted out and was thinking too two steps seeing the Lakers with Shaq were a possibility. That was before Kobe was Kobe.
Phil came off really good in this documentary but that stuff with the marriage was so true.
Remember Krause was the moron who invited the entire coaching staff sans Phil Jackson to his daughter’s wedding and Bill Cartwright’s wife asking Phil’s wife what she was wearing and her finding out she wasn’t invited. Krause made himself the villain.
Reinsdorf admited the team fell apart because he didn’t want to pay the aging players more than their value. When if Reinsdorf was smart with the lockout could have paid the guys in a prorated 50 game season and given Pippen his money 5yrs-80 million and then traded Pippen after the year if he felt he wasn’t worth it and gotten him moved.
Instead Reinsdorf went cheap and the team went 5 years as pure garbage.
Phil Jackson being a phony kinda got ignored. Which I Understand as he was just the coach in Chicago. When he went to LA he became more outspoken and Hollywood publicly. In Chicago he wasn’t discussed that much.
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