Durant: Phil Jackson Comments were 'disrespectful'

[daslicer]

Phill is very overatted coach when he goes up against a evenly matched team or a more talented team it results in an epic loss. He lost in '03 to a superior spurs team by nearly 30 points in the elimation game none of his zen worked. How about the pre-Gasol years in '06 and '07 when he choked away one series and then nearly got swept a year later.

In '08 he was really great when he coached against a better celtic team and despite his ing and "mindgames" he still suffered the worst loss in finals history. I don't call it playing mindgames when in reality you are actually talking to inferior opponents. There is no cleverness in Phill's comments its always "Blah blah gets away with fouling supertar A or blah blah blah superstar A is not getting enough freethrows or blah blah blah rival superstar B is getting too many freethrows or blah blah rival superstar B is doing illegal moves." Its always those 4 lines Phill mentions throughout the playoffs I just don't see it as mindgames but merely straight up whining.

[TheMACHINE]

PJ just trolling all you mother ers.

[TheMACHINE]

PJ is just as overated as Pops.

[daslicer]

PJ is just as overated as Pops.

I will not even argue this point due to some of the crazy small ball stuff Pop has done the last few years

[xellos88330]

Yup,that's just Phil.

Remember when Phil made the brokeback mountain comments and every1 got all butthurt. He just likes shaking a tree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-NLzjcA3kM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-m0xfdID34

Never heard that before!

That was some funny ! Horses... really!?!

I can understand why people freaked out, but the fact remains.... that was some priceless humor there. I have new respect for Phil after that.

[picc84]

Glad people are finally seeing how overrated he is. Easy to stack up les when you're coaching the GOAT and the MDE. Rick Adelman kicked his coaching ass last year.

[TheMACHINE]

Never heard that before!

That was some funny ! Horses... really!?!

I can understand why people freaked out, but the fact remains.... that was some priceless humor there. I have new respect for Phil after that.

typical phil and typical spurstalk reaction everytime he mentions the refs. Same old same old.

[jacobdrj]

P-Jax - 1
KD - 0


P-Jax already working his magic.

[TheManFromAcme]

A chimpanzee could have coached the Bulls to 6 championships, and could have won any of the 4 les Phil won in LA. A halfway decent coach would have won 4-5 les with the Shaq/Kobe Lakers, and never would have let Boston go all 131-92 on them.

It's not only his "coaching" that makes him great. X's and O's are just part of the job as a NBA coach. Managing egos, hotheads, wierdos, etc., etc., are the other part. Each one of these aspects compliments the other. It's nuts to think you could have stuck any coach to those Bulls/Lakers teams. You know it. I know it. Sure Phil is a butthole at times but that's just his personality. There are many more Phil's of the world that are not in basketball that you probably encounter daily.

[PGDynasty24]

Here's a fact. MJ and Pipp and Kobe and Shaq hadn't won 1 le b4 phil came. Phil got both of those squads over the hump.

[cobbler]

LOL at the guys who do nothing but whine here on a daily basis about the Lakers supposed preferential treatment actually whining about PJ whining (which he does every year at this time).

The hypocritically obsessed!

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

My main criticism of Phil is that 9/10 of his championships were him taking over a team that already was a contender and not having to do much to put them over the top. There wasn't a ton of development he had to do, and his teams were full of players who didn't need a coach to micromanage them. Still, the fact remains the teams he took over couldn't do without him. IMO, the top 5 coaches ever:

1. Pat Riley
2. Larry Brown
3. Greg Popovich
4. Phil Jackson
5. Chuck Daly