Coaches are more overrated than GMs, but they all matter.
Let's break down what Krause did.
Assembled the entirety of the first three peat Bulls (except for Jordan).
This includes, but is not limited to:
Trading for Scottie Pippen on draft day.
Drafting Horace Grant. Jordan wanted Joe Wolf.
Traded Oakley for Bill Cartwright, which Jordan threw a fit over.
Drafted BJ Armstrong.
Pulled Phil Jackson out of complete obscurity on the coaching scene and eventually made him the head coach.
Hired Tex Winter who basically created the offense for the entire Bulls dynasty.
Second three peat:
Signed Steve Kerr who went on to become the all time leader in three point shooting percentage in NBA HISTORY.
Drafted Tony Kukoc in 90 and eventually got him to come play in 94.
Traded Perdue for Rodman when nobody wanted him. This move might be slightly overrated because they could have just waived him and it wouldn't have been the end of the world. Nevertheless, it worked, and it worked wonderfully.
Signed Ron Harper who was a fantastic contributor defensively on any/all guards.
Are you kidding? That guy made a plethora of brilliant moves. And just like all players, coaches and GMs have their primes too, and Krause peaked in the late 80s and early 90s.
Don't get me wrong, he definitely doesn't get 6 without Jordan. And maybe he gets 0, in fact I'd say it's likely. But I'm straight up telling you Jordan very likely gets only a couple maximum had Krause not been around.
Krause's biggest problem was that he was a bit of an asshole and didn't deal well with people. But a serious argument can be made that he's up there at the top of the top of GMs in the history of the NBA. He's up there with West, that's for sure.
The Bulls won 55 games in 1994 without Jordan. Krause put together a hell of a team. The fact that they won 55 games the very year after the departure of arguably the greatest player ever should say everything there is to say about how good those Bulls teams actually were regardless of Jordan, but here we are, with the myth that it was just him. And it'll probably only grow further in that direction over time, lol.