His ability to manage the egos, that is his strength. I give him credit for that and that is very important. I just happen to feel that those teams were going to likely win titles anyway. I don't think it was Del that couldn't get them together. I thought it was a learning process. Teams have to grow up, especially when it's young players. Look at the Pistons. They had to get better each year before finally beating the Celtics back in the 80's. The Bulls had to learn to beat the Pistons. Dallas had to go through some trials before they were able to break through and beat SA more recently. Utah had to get over Seattle in the mid 90's.
I do want to say that I don't think he got Rodman to do anything. Rodman fell in line because he respected MJ, not Phil. Rodman was in line in Detroit when he respected Isiah and Chuck Daly.
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