Suns Coach Mike D'Antoni wasn't smiling in the final few minutes, particularly after Jackson called a timeout immediately after a mandatory Phoenix timeout with 4:45 to play and the Lakers ahead, 111-81. D'Antoni and Jackson exchanged words, with D'Antoni reminding Jackson the teams will play three more times this season.
"You mean the eight minutes he took over there to explain maybe one play that he probably didn't run? Yeah, I was pretty upset," D'Antoni said. "I thought he disrespected our players. But he likes to play mind games, and that's fine. He might want to try to do it in playoff time when we bust them every year. We have them three more times. . . . That's fine."
Said Jackson: "I think he thought I was trying to showboat. When you have a mandatory timeout coming in a minute and a half or something like that, just get them out of the way so we don't have to endure those four-minute timeouts on ESPN."
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All Jackson would have had to do was point up to the rafters. After D'Antoni fails to see anything, Jackson responds, "Exactly!"
That's that...
D'Antoni has not earned the right to complain = win something first.
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