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Durant must not know how Phil works. The guy says like this to get inside your head. It is mindgames. He has been doing this forever.
http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angele...ory?id=5091485
The posturing has begun between the Lakers and the Thunder.
Los Angeles coach Phil Jackson told reporters Wednesday that Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant gets preferential treatment from referees.
"Yeah, by the calls he gets, he really gets to the line a lot, I'll tell ya," Jackson said, according to The Oklahoman's Web site.
Phil Jackson has to be one of the biggest jackasses ever...give credit where credit is due...If you are an aggressive player and can get to the rim you are going to get calls...Durant is going to be a great player in this league for years to come... I dont think the Thunder will beat out the Lakers in the series, but they do give them some trouble...Give em KD.
Durant must not know how Phil works. The guy says like this to get inside your head. It is mindgames. He has been doing this forever.
Phil plays mind games. Durant just fell for one.
Pathetic by Phil Jackson, but not surprising since its part of his MO. He's always out to criticize others. Worry about your own team Phil before they get upset in the playoffs by a hungrier, better coached team.
Phil is worrying about his own team. Part of Phil's strategy in worrying about his own team is to try and bait the other team into worrying about things Phil says as opposed to worrying about their own team.
Phil Jackson = POS
Exactly.
Phil has been doing stuff like this for 20 years for a simple reason, it works. Now the first time KD doesn't a get a call that he's been getting all year, he'll be thinking that the refs have been influenced by Phil's remarks.
True or not, Phil wins.
Mind games? He's simply ing about officiating. He does it every time, especially after he loses. I mean, he's still playing mind games after the games as well? Not sure why people say Durant "fell for it". In fact, it seems to me Durant gave the best answer possible.
Now, if Durant doesn't get his wealthy dose of trips to the line, there will be a lot of pressure on the refs. "Why is Durant not getting FTs?", "Are the refs intimidated by what Phil Jackson said?".While Jackson might be setting the stage to get a few calls to go his way, Durant doesn't think it will work.
If the refs pay attention to that and change how they call things because of that, that's terrible," Durant said, according to The Oklahoman. "That's terrible to the game of basketball and to us. If that happens, then [coach] Scotty [Brooks] could talk, too. Or any other coach could talk, too, just so the refs could switch everything up. But I doubt they do that.
"They're smarter than that, and they have more skills than that as refs. So I don't really worry about it too much," he said, according to the report.
If Durant goes to the line, Lakers players will be too worried about it instead of focusing on the game.
he can be an ass but his record speaks for itself and he is great at manipulating refs, his own team and others.
But let' be real here. PJ wouldnt bother if he didnt consider Durant and the Thunder as a tangible threat.
imho it looks like Durant out-mind gamed Phil Jackson. Everyone knows Phil is a fraud anyways. It's easy to look like a genius playing mind games when you've always got the best player on the planet on your roster."If the refs pay attention to that and change how they call things because of that, that's terrible," Durant said, according to the newspaper. "That's terrible to the game of basketball and to us. If that happens, then [coach] Scotty [Brooks] could talk, too. Or any other coach could talk, too, just so the refs could switch everything up. But I doubt they do that.
"They're smarter than that, and they have more skills than that as refs. So I don't really worry about it too much," he added, according to the report.
There's always another game.
"No comment."Not sure why people say Durant "fell for it". In fact, it seems to me Durant gave the best answer possible.
If Phil didn't think it would work to his team's advantage, he wouldn't say it. Will it actually work out that way? We'll see.
Ignoring Jackson's reputation, it's just so ironic to hear the Lakers and their fans talking about other teams getting calls..it's kind of ridiculous..
I'm interested to see the Durant vs. Artest matchup..Durant gets a lot of calls, while Artest gets away with more handchecking than anybody in the NBA by a large margin..
I recall Pau recently saying something stupid along those things.
And yeah, Artest is merely an above-average defender if he isn't allowed to handcheck.
anyone who seriously thinks that someone who just won the scoring le and carried the youngest team in the league to 50 wins at the age of 21 can get flustered this easily.
And mogro is right, all real men have some sense of pride and self-respect. None of the refs in that series want to turn on ESPN and hear about how Phil Jackson mind ed them and made them his . If I were a ref, my at ude would be, "Phil Jackson wants to about how I'm not doing my job up to his standards? Fine. I'll send Durant to the line 20 times. Now Phil really has something to about."
Phil's only been pulling stunts like this for a couple of decades now. If the refs were going to retaliate against him for it, I'm pretty sure he'd have stopped saying stuff like this a long, long time ago. The fact that he hasn't should make it pretty damn obvious to everyone that Phil thinks he's gaining something by it.
And mogro is right, all real men have some sense of pride and self-respect. None of the refs in that series want to turn on ESPN and hear about how Phil Jackson mind ed them and made them his . If I were a ref, my at ude would be, "Phil Jackson wants to about how I'm not doing my job up to his standards? Fine. I'll send Durant to the line 20 times. Now Phil really has something to about."
Either way, even if it doesn't work, there's no reason for Jackson not to at least try it..it's his M.O, so he might as well..
You must be so sure of this that you have to keep posting it over and over, that reeks of confidence
It's your job to shut him up Kevin.
Please do so!
He's a whiner. Always has been, always will be. His books are hundreds of pages of persistent, endless whining - about the refs, the players, the owners, the reporters. Can't help himself. People only call it "mind games" because it's Phil Jackson. But it's merely a whiner whining.
Ten championships in nineteen seasons suggest other conclusions are possible.
Like this one?..
Like what? That he won them because he's a whiner?
Coaches don't win championships, players do. PJ is one of the best coaches of all time and is great at things like keeping his players loose, but it's not like the refs used telekinesis to guide MJ's shot over Bryan Russell into the hoop because they were worried PJ would talk about them if they didn't. It got a little ridiculous when ESPN decided to analyze whether or not Phil intentionally mispronounced Leon Powe's name.
The refs would rather look stupid than to look crooked. If the Lakers getting favourable calls in the series, the media will point to how stupid the refs are by falling into the Phil trap, rather than how they are screwing a small market team for Stern's favourite.
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