Phil Jackson must like the Hawks

[macdaddy]

Dr Frankenstein is now aghast at the league he helped build.  The guy who is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the superstar treatment doesn't like being on the other side of the court.   Welcome to the rest of the NBA Phil!

 

 

“I watch LeBron James, for example,” he said. “He might [travel] every other time he catches the basketball if he’s off the ball. He catches the ball, moves both his feet. You see it happen all the time. There’s no structure, there’s no discipline, there’s no ‘How do we play this game’ type of attitude. And it goes all the way through the game. To the point where now guys don’t screen—they push guys off with their hands.”

 

He concluded: “It struck me: How can we get so far away from the real truth of what we’re trying to do? And if you give people structure, just like a jazz musician—he’s gotta learn melody, and he’s gotta learn the basic parts of music—and then he can learn how to improvise. And that’s basically what team play is all about.”

“The game actually has some beauty to it, and we’ve kind of taken some of that out of it to make it individualized,” Jackson said. “It’s a lot of who we are as a country, individualized stuff.”

 

“When I watch some of these playoff games, and I look at what’s being run out there, as what people call an offense, it’s really quite remarkable to see how far our game has fallen from a team game,” Jackson said. “Four guys stand around watching one guy dribble a basketball.

 

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/22/phil-jackson-lebron-james-travels-half-the-time-he-catches-the-ball/

 

[pimp]

“Four guys stand around watching one guy dribble a basketball.

All this from a guy that has Mello on his team...

[PSSSHHHRRR87]

All this from a guy that has Mello on his team...

 

...and MJ... ...and Kobe...

[AHF]

...and MJ... ...and Kobe...

 

In the triangle at least there was much more structure than "give it to Jordan and iso."  Guys like Kerr, Paxson, Pippen, Harper, etc. were all significant contributors to their offense.

[capstone21]

Cleveland is def voting Phil Jackson for exec of the year after giving them the team to go to the finals

[benhillboy]

Phil is just bored in NY with all the cameras in his face clamoring for a comment. He can be sure LeBron is gonna give the Knicks a little something extra next time he comes to Madison.