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Former NBA Giants Rebuild Block by Block
By John Gale - 28 Feb 2007
Ten years ago, the Utah Jazz made their first of two consecutive appearances
in the NBA Finals. They lost to the Chicago Bulls in six games each time.
A decade later, both teams have faced the difficult prospect of rebuilding
after the glory days of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Phil Jackson, Karl
Malone, John Stockton and Jeff Hornacek. But each team has accomplished this
goal in different ways-the Bulls primarily through the draft and the Jazz
mainly through free agency.
"Well, it was very difficult," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "Obviously,
Chicago has changed coaches two or three times. Kevin and Larry have kept
us around. From that standpoint, we're very lucky, but I think the most
important thing is we've got players, we've got [Mehmet Okur] and we've got
[Carlos] Boozer."
Hornacek retired at the conclusion of the 1999-2000 season. Three years
later, Stockton also retired, and Malone left to join the Los Angeles Lakers
in a last attempt to win an NBA championship, leading to the Jazz's
rebuilding project.
"I'm not sure that we really had a choice," Jazz Senior Vice President of
Basketball Operations Kevin O'Connor said. "Basically, when we finished the
season, we were in a situation that our three best players had retired, and
we didn't have cap room or flexibility. All of a sudden, we had three empty
holes. Then it became necessary. Then we became basically an expansion team."
Despite the major departures the Jazz suffered, they never sunk to one of
the worst teams in the league for an extended period like the Bulls did,
surprising analysts by continuing to compete with inferior talent.
"I think you can attribute it to stability in our organization with Larry
Miller and Jerry Sloan," O'Connor said. "We won 42 games a couple years ago.
If you look at the talent we had on that roster, it really speaks to the job
Jerry did."
Unlike the Bulls, the Jazz did not rebuild primarily through high draft
picks. Their lone high draft pick, the No. 3 overall in the 2005 draft that
they used to take Deron Williams, was acquired through trading three lower
draft picks
Instead, the Jazz rebuilt primarily through smart free agent signings of
players such as Boozer and Okur.
"It was important for us to try and not do it through the draft because
we're in a smaller market and we're the only show in town," O'Connor said.
After missing the playoffs for three consecutive years-twice by three games
or less-the Jazz's rebuilding efforts finally have the team in position to
make the playoffs.
Utah has the third-best record in the NBA, with a comfortable lead in their
division.
The Bulls' rebuilding experience was quite different from the
Jazz's-considerably more painful and lengthy.
During the 1997-1998 season, the last of six championship campaigns for
Chicago, then-Bulls General Manager Jerry Krause made his infamous statement,
"Players don't win championships, organizations win championships."
After detonating the Jordan/Pippen/Jackson dynasty, Krause was proven wrong,
as he tried to rebuild the Bulls back into championship form.
He first tried to hold a fire sale by trading away veteran players such as
Pippen in order to field a less than competitive team to secure high draft
picks and clear salary cap space to sign high-profile free agents.
The plan backfired when free agents such as Tim Duncan and Tracy McGrady
signed with other teams.
Krause then decided to build through the draft.
In the next few years, the team drafted Elton Brand, Ron Artest, Marcus
Fizer, Jamal Crawford and Jay Williams. In 2001, Krause traded Brand for high
school player Tyson Chandler and also drafted fellow high schooler Eddy Curry.
Krause later traded Artest and Brad Miller for Jalen Rose. Artest, Brand and
Miller all became All-Stars after leaving the Bulls.
After failing in his attempt to rebuild the team, including a stretch of 56
combined wins over four seasons-a total the team exceeded during each of its
championship seasons-Krause resigned in 2003.
Former Bulls player John Paxson, an integral part of the first three Bulls
title teams, took over with the task of rebuilding a team that hadn't made
the playoffs in five years.
While the team had the second-worst record in the NBA (23-59) in Paxson's
first season in charge, the seeds of a playoff team were finally sown.
Paxson fired head coach Bill Cartwright and hired current coach Scott Skiles
in 2004.
Paxson's next big moves were in the draft. After taking Kirk Hinrich the
previous year, Paxson drafted three of the current team's best players in the
2004 draft: Ben Gordon, Luol Deng and Chris Duhon.
Paxson also signed Andres Nocioni, another of the Bulls' best players, as an
undrafted rookie free agent.
"Their team is competitive," Sloan said. "They've got some very fine young
players. When you've got young players, it takes awhile for them to
understand the ups and downs."
Paxson has continued to overhaul the team, trading Curry and Chandler-the
last vestiges of the Krause era-in the last two offseasons, while bringing
in four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Ben Wallace.
Paxson's efforts have paid off, as the Bulls have finished at .500 or better
the past two seasons, making the playoffs each time. They are currently
poised to make the playoffs for a third consecutive year.
"The Bulls have done a terrific job," O'Connor said.
It remains to be seen if the Jazz and Bulls can take their recent success to
the level of competing for a championship, as they did a decade ago.
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63281
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