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Poor Phil Jackson... pathetic as always.
The Spurs are a better team...deeper and a lot more seasoned....still Phil likes his mind games and I'm not too worried about Manu and his steps, but Tparker drives me insane with his dancing in the lane....Yes he's quick but a travel is a travel.
Poor Phil Jackson... pathetic as always.
DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS: Lakers coach Phil Jackson has been asked to run for senate, be a Harvard professor and serve on the board of a Fortune 500 company.
http://www.ocregister.com/sports/jac...ard-halberstam
Lakers' Jackson a man of many opportunities
NBA column: A new contract temporarily keeps the coach from running for Senate or being a Harvard professor.
KEVIN DING
Register columnist
NBA
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The world will have to wait.
That's the greater upshot of Phil Jackson's decision to extend his Lakers coaching contract to 2010. There's a whole wide world out there, ready to rip hinges off to open various doors to Jackson. His past free agency has been unlike any other in sports – largely not even about sports – with a rainbow of job opportunities all looking like gold.
U.S. Senator? Harvard professor? Fortune 500 board member? Yes, yes, yes. The extent to which the world could be Jackson's playground has never been fully explained. It's mind-boggling to ponder … and actually quite inspirational when you consider the guy was filing for unemployment at 42.
And if Jackson were done with basketball but chose to stay in sports … pro tennis coach? Unbelievably, yes.
The men's tennis superstars who approached Jackson at the Australian Open in January 2005 while between Lakers stints were the big boys. And Jackson was legitimately intrigued, because he actually has a long-held love for the sport of tennis.
ESPN did an interview with Jackson at the tournament under the assumption that he was just a mindless spectator there smiling at kangaroos and koalas. There was much more going on – and not just the Knicks' usual desperate grab at Jackson (Lenny Wilkins had just resigned) or the Lakers' confusion (Rudy Tomjanovich was a week away from stepping down).
Tennis is all about the psychology of the moment and channeling energy, the very lessons Jackson's NBA players will tell you they've gleaned most from him. Tennis isn't, however, about team building, which is really the gist of Jackson's magic act.
The Lakers are paying Jackson, 62, a large fortune at $24 million over two years to stay on, but he could easily make a small fortune without working nearly as hard by accepting offers for speaking engagements. During Jackson's 1998-99 free agency between the Bulls and Lakers, he did more of these speeches and it became clear that people in business aren't nearly as interested in Michael Jordan's body as they are in Jackson's mind.
Invariably in the Q-and-A segments of the speeches, the same question would arise: How do you get someone such as Dennis Rodman to be part of the whole? Running a business is basically running a team toward a money-making goal, which is why so many offers have and will continue to come to Jackson about sitting on corporate boards.
Jackson has the same amount of business experience as he does political – none – but that hasn't stopped him from being invited to run for the Senate in his native Montana. As a Democrat. And as a Republican. He has also been asked in North Dakota, where he grew up and went to college. As a Democrat. And as a Republican.
Jackson has no shortage of political opinions, but he's more amused by these offers than anything else. He did help with fundraising in former Knicks teammate Bill Bradley's campaign for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination. And Jackson has donated money to Barack Obama's campaign this year, so perhaps Oprah Winfrey will soon have company in endorsing Obama.
But the one sidelight that really caught Jackson's fancy – and perhaps was as close as he could've gotten to his mother's wish for him to become a respectable minister like both his parents – was the Harvard opportunity. Through Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam, a Harvard alum, Jackson could've written his own ticket as a professor there.
Halberstam developed an even greater regard for Jackson while writing "Playing for Keeps" about Jordan in 1998 and made it a personal crusade to bring a post-Bulls Jackson to Harvard. Halberstam went so far as clearing it with the university president to ensure Jackson would take it seriously. That's how much Halberstam thought Jackson had to offer in academia.
Jackson saw the fit and no doubt could've come up with a whopper for the course catalog. How about "The Role of Sports in American Society as Compared to and Contrasted with Religious Thought, Modern Literature and Native American Tribal Customs"?
Bottom line, Jackson views himself as a teacher, which is why he spent time in 2004 mentoring a group of high school kids in Inglewood and gave them "teamwork" as the topic for the stories they would write into a published book. It's also why he is back with the Lakers again despite the remarkable potential of a "higher calling" somewhere else.
He loves to teach basketball, so he ultimately keeps doing it … for now.
Jackson's recommended career paths from a personality test he took years ago were homemaker and trail guide. After he retired as an NBA player at 35, he ran a small health club in Montana for a spell. He wound up coaching basketball in Albany, N.Y., when it was cold and Puerto Rico when it was hot.
From that little has spawned this much. Just goes to show, anything's possible.
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There is no more travel in the NBA on the extra step, and Manu is the one guard who rarely does it anyway. 90% of the time people travel by taking a step before putting the ball down on a drive from the triple threat, but that is called once every 2 or 3 games at most.
This is how you know Phil is the scared little dog backed up in a corner, but he must be getting senile because he's going after the wrong guy. Parker is more likely succeptible to these types of things.
That is Manu's legacy! Jackson knows Manu will get his if he wills it so what did that panzy ass coach did? he goes to the media to relay his message to the refs. I really hate that er and how he sits with his legs crossed.
Few call travels on spin moves. Be it high school, college or the NBA. One of the reasons it such a great move...if you can do it.
Manu doesn't travel. He just takes huge, long steps. Parker does travel..and he gets called on it a lot too.
That is the whole reason, because it is such a great move refs don't whistle it, same goes with high flying dunks. Its all for show.
Parker had one of his travels in the NBA highlights last year in the playoffs. And it was number one I thinkCo-sign the above. Parker travels all the time. Manu, amazingly enough, does not..
Everybody in the NBA travels. I tried doing something that was quite common in the NBA that I see happens 30 times a night by all PG's/SG's and I got called for a carry/travel/double dribble all at once. The refs let things slide as far as another half step or dribbling the ball a certain way.
Manu walks even when he is seated on the bench
Euro step? To bad Jackson has never watched a FIBA game as to know what he's talking about. Blatant travelling is a hallmark of the NBA.
Thet rule is much more severely enforced in FIBA while in the NBA you can get away with it all the time (especially if you're Lebron), and that's something that really shows when American NBA players have to play FIBA games.
I'm not talking about half steps, but big fat four or five steps. Many players don't even care to dribble going for a fastbreak dunk because they know no ref will prevent a highlight play from happening.
Saludos.
Somehow I don't think the referees are reading what Phil Jackson has to say to the media about Manu Ginobili.
Magic said some of the same crap on TNT once. It's like the Laker camp meet behind close doors and create a smear campaign against the Spurs. But it is funny when the Chuckster and Kenny calls out Magic for being a Laker homer.
Even the Laker media talks about San Antonio on the local broadcasts. If you guys ever see John Irelandwalking around San Antonio, be sure to flip him off or spit in his food. If I can find the crap he said about San Antonio, I'll youtube it.
The pathetic L.A. media laugh along with PJ like a bunch of ignorant sheep.
I hate PJ.
Kobe barely walks and everytime he does he gets called for it.
PJ has always done this, it's a tactic to get the officials to look more closely into the way a player plays. I'm sure the referees have heard of PJ's comments already.Somehow I don't think the referees are reading what Phil Jackson has to say to the media about Manu Ginobili.
Bull . He does walk and he does get away with it.
On a scale of 1-10 that ranks about a 0.3 on the Phil Jackson Mind-Game-O'Meter.
Manu and Tony both travel a lot. Manu nearly football tucks the ball and then travels. Parker travels all the time. But most of the time they don't call it on Tony/Manu or most of the guys in the league. So.. oh well.
Kobe gets away with a LOT of travelling. Especially when he's posting up. He's always switching his pivot foot. I've slowed down footage and seen this many times.
Stern has given Wade the lifetime option to dribble or not to dribble when he has the ball.
Funny he didn't mention Kobe carrying the ball every time he goes for a crossover....
you say that as if it were illegal, am i missing something? although i do find it odd not many other players do that
Jackson is a joke - man, he really has hit new lows each season.... he told the reported today after the Bynum incident that what happened with OBerto getting away with murder is what the spurs DO.
It's illegal when you are taking too many steps with it.
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