Koolaid_Man
07-17-2011, 10:33 PM
Kobe has an opportunity to do something legendary when he laces em up again. Win back 2 back this time without Phil and the Tri...talk about separation from MJ...
Shaw: Experience With Phil Jackson, Triangle Offense Looked Down Upon Around NBA
Jul 17, 2011 4:34 PM EDT
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Former Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw said his experience with Phil Jackson and the triangle offense contributed to him not getting the head coaching position with the Lakers.
“If I go into an interview with another team, even when I interviewed for the Lakers, talking about Phil Jackson or talking about his triangle offense ... I see the faces of general managers and owners cringe when I bring up his name and his offense, and I don't understand that, but I'm not ashamed of it,” Shaw told ESPNLosAngeles. “I'm proud of the fact that I played for him, and I coached under him, and that I was able to accomplish all of the success and gain all the experience that I was able to gain under him. I'm not going to duck my head or shy away from the fact that I was affiliated with Phil Jackson.
That's also the same reason why, or at least a big part of the reason why I'm not still with the Lakers, and neither of the other coaches -- Jim Cleamons and Frank Hamblen -- why we're not there, either.
"Just to feel like having all that experience and all the success and all those championships, that everybody that was on that staff kind of felt like we were out on the street, with nowhere to go," Shaw said. "He's a guy who is not arguably, but is the best, and the winningest, and the most successful coach in the history of professional sports, whose coaching staff it almost seems like we were lepers, and we had the plague, and nobody wanted to touch us. That's hard for me to understand."
Shaw also expressed his belief that Jackson’s assistants aren’t as highly regarded as Gregg Popovich’s.
“You look at Gregg Popovich and his staff, and the guys that have worked for that San Antonio organization, and getting jobs, and they're always at the front of the list and what have you,” Shaw said. “Then you have Phil Jackson, who has won all that he's won, and his staff has been with him a long time, that don't get the same opportunities, that don't get looked at the same way.”
Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/214772/Shaw_Experience_With_Phil_Jackson_Triangle_Offense _Looked_Down_Upon_Around_NBA#ixzz1SQLf0U9F
Shaw: Experience With Phil Jackson, Triangle Offense Looked Down Upon Around NBA
Jul 17, 2011 4:34 PM EDT
http://basketball.realgm.com/images/nba/4.2/wiretap/photos/2006/Jackson_Phil_lal_091015.jpg
Former Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw said his experience with Phil Jackson and the triangle offense contributed to him not getting the head coaching position with the Lakers.
“If I go into an interview with another team, even when I interviewed for the Lakers, talking about Phil Jackson or talking about his triangle offense ... I see the faces of general managers and owners cringe when I bring up his name and his offense, and I don't understand that, but I'm not ashamed of it,” Shaw told ESPNLosAngeles. “I'm proud of the fact that I played for him, and I coached under him, and that I was able to accomplish all of the success and gain all the experience that I was able to gain under him. I'm not going to duck my head or shy away from the fact that I was affiliated with Phil Jackson.
That's also the same reason why, or at least a big part of the reason why I'm not still with the Lakers, and neither of the other coaches -- Jim Cleamons and Frank Hamblen -- why we're not there, either.
"Just to feel like having all that experience and all the success and all those championships, that everybody that was on that staff kind of felt like we were out on the street, with nowhere to go," Shaw said. "He's a guy who is not arguably, but is the best, and the winningest, and the most successful coach in the history of professional sports, whose coaching staff it almost seems like we were lepers, and we had the plague, and nobody wanted to touch us. That's hard for me to understand."
Shaw also expressed his belief that Jackson’s assistants aren’t as highly regarded as Gregg Popovich’s.
“You look at Gregg Popovich and his staff, and the guys that have worked for that San Antonio organization, and getting jobs, and they're always at the front of the list and what have you,” Shaw said. “Then you have Phil Jackson, who has won all that he's won, and his staff has been with him a long time, that don't get the same opportunities, that don't get looked at the same way.”
Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/214772/Shaw_Experience_With_Phil_Jackson_Triangle_Offense _Looked_Down_Upon_Around_NBA#ixzz1SQLf0U9F