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He's never been coached by Popovich...
That's a side note. It doesn't work that way. Phil won't coach a team that doesn't have, at least on paper, the lion's share of the talent in the NBA. He's a cherry picker. Any coach that's coached more than 1 team who has as many rings as he has must have a set of criteria for accepting coaching jobs that doesn't include developing teams. So Phil isn't as much a coach as he is a counselor. What does Phil know about the game that he's able to teach players that enables them to be good enough as a team to win? Nothing. That's why his players and assistants don't do after they leave LA and quite often not even in LA. He gets stars and he manages them, but he doesn't coach them. He once said Kobe was uncoachable, I wonder how he would know.
Phil drives the fastest race car better than the other available drivers could. The available drivers were always those who've wrecked other race cars or just couldn't get the cars to even start. Phil has been constantly compared to mediocre assistant turned head coach types while his record gets compared to true coaches who weren't on the market as often as he's been.
He's never been coached by Popovich...
Let him come back. I want to see him get ushered out a loser again, this time with Kobe blaming him in the media and Howard looking to sign in Brooklyn. There's no ing way the LA experiment ends nicely.
Asked and answered.
"He teaches guys to be thinkers," Bryant said of Jackson. "He teaches us the little nuances, the details, the intricacies of the game that just a lot of people don't know. It's no fault of their own, but when it comes to basketball he's at a genius level."
"When I asked Kobe to stop his habit of screaming at his teammates on the court because it creates insecurity, he came right back at me. 'That's bull ,' he said. 'You're the one that's causing them to be anxious. They’re afraid to make a mistake.'"
- Phil Jackson
"I went upstairs to see Mitch in his office. Wasting no time, I went off on a tirade about the need to deal Kobe before the trading deadline in mid-February. 'I won’t coach this team next year if he is still here,' I said emphatically. 'He won’t listen to anyone. I’ve had it with this kid.' My monologue-Mitch barely said a word at first-reminded me of similar eruption in the middle of my first year when I presented what I thought was a very logical argument for trading Kobe at that time. 'Everyone says what a mature person this kid is,' I said. 'He’s not mature at all.' The deal I had in mind was Kobe to Phoenix for Jason Kidd and Shawn Marion.”
- Phil Jackson
"Finally it was Kobe’s turn. 'You know how much I hate this f***ing offense,' Kobe said."
- Phil Jackson
So Kobe forgets those after Phil leave? Kobe knows Kobe, doesn't give a flying about anyone else.
Just look at all the great assistants and players that have developed under Phil and gone on to be leaders on other teams... *crickets*
I guess they forget all that genius teaching after they leave.
Because Phil was MJ's coach, other players give him free respect that other coaches don't get. Phil doesn't have to do anything. He just sits there pretending to be a genius and all the little fan boys who cannot connect the dots lap at his wrinkled scrotum.
^^^If you like that then a good read is also The Jordan Rules.
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