What if Jerry Sloan coached the Bulls instead of Phil Jackson?

[kaiju]

Exactly what it says on the title. Let's say the Bulls fire Doug Collins one year early in 1988, Sloan rejects the Jazz's offer, and the original Bull goes home. Are MJ and Pippen as successful OTL in the next ten or so years?

Bonus: What do you think happens to Phil Jackson? I kinda wanna see him either going to the Lakers early after Pay Riley leaves, or for the sake of this scenario's idea of "players go coach their old teams", go to New York after Rick Pitino leaves in '89. Or maybe, thanks to butterflies, he goes to Utah.

 

[AltSptHst]

for the sake of this scenario's idea of "players go coach their old teams", go to New York after Rick Pitino leaves in '89.

I believe he tries to go back to New York (like he always wanted to), and if he gets the HC job, the 90's Knick teams would have looked way different.

As for the Bulls, if Sloan can't get Jordon to work together with his teammates (like Phil did), they may not win six titles.