Are These Bulls The Real Deal?

Living in the Chicago area, there has been a rush of excitement in recent weeks for the Chicago Bulls of the NBA.
There hasn't been this much excitement of NBA basketball in the windy city since one Michael Jordan led the Bulls to their sixth NBA championship in 1998.
That was then and this is now.
However, let's quell the talk of Derrick Rose being the new Jordan as far as hoops goes here in the windy city. I recently overheard two sports radio geeks talking trash about how Jordan may be jealous of Rose when the 1991 championship Bulls team was honored in Chicago a couple of weeks ago.
Jordan quipped that Chicago basketball fans may be in for another run of championships and heaped praise on Rose and company. In fact, the Bulls have the best record in the Eastern Conference with the playoffs just a little over three weeks away.
With the best ever player in the history of the NBA saying that, it just might be true. But the Bulls haven't done anything even remotely close to what the Jordan-era Bulls' teams did in the 1990's.
They have to get past two huge nemesis in Orlando and Boston once the playoffs begin.
Granted, Rose is hands down the league's Most Valuable Player in 2010-11 and he shows that night in and night out.
But come on, Jordan was a six-time champion who led the league in scoring a record ten times and also racked up five MVP awards in his playing days.
Having witnessed Jordan's NBA greatness up close during the late 1980's and through his first "retirement" following the 1993 season, it's my opinion there is absolutely, positively no comparison between Rose and Jordan.
My own experience as the Chicago Bulls' Sound Operations Engineer at home games at the old Chicago Stadium and for the transition in 1994-95 into the United Center across the street on West Madison in Chicago gives me the knowledge first hand of just how special those Jordan-led Bulls' teams really were.
Without going into details, there were times when the old Stadium was rocking so loud that people actually had ear plugs in during games and then Head Coach Phil Jackson would literally go off to the side with his assistant coaches during timeouts to go over strategy before addressing the team so they could hear each other.
Jordan and the Bulls rocked the house and we added to the excitement with the top rated sports anthem of Rock and Roll (Part 2) by Gary Glitter echoing out during the frenzy of excitement after Jordan or Scottie Pippen or John Paxson just electrified the crowd.
Those Bulls teams were the real deal and proved it over an entire decade.
Can this current group, led by Rose, do the same?
Only time will tell.