Phil Jackson: Easy Wilson, this is a West Coast Bias sports fans site, remember?
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of guest posts from WCBias.com fans. Interested in writing a guest post for WCBias.com? Contact us.
By Nick Wilson
Phil Jackson is not a guru. He does not have any mystique. He is not the Zen master. He’s not a basketball genius.
He’s an average guy with average intelligence who looks half-asleep most of the time but who happens to be coaching the most talented teams in the NBA in any given year.
Many lionize Phillip as a coaching legend because of all his rings.
Don’t get me wrong. Nobody can win 10 titles without knowing some knowledge of the game.
But a coach wins 5 games a year in decision-making at the end of games. Players win championships.
Every year, basketball commentators talk about Phil being the X-factor in bringing L.A. another title. Please. Um:.why then did Kobe throw a tantrum to get another superstar around him pre-Pau Gasol?
Are you kidding me, Lakers fans, that Cleveland has anywhere near the supporting cast that L.A. has this year?
Kobe goes out with injury and L.A. still wins most of its games. Lebron goes out and the Cavs are hopeless.
Antawn Jamison, an aging Shaq, and Mo Williams don’t even come close to the combined talent of Gasol, Bynum, Odom, Artest, and Fisher.
Back to Phil. A fourth grader could have coached Jordan and Pippen to six titles.
And all Phil had to do was play the “blame the referee” game that he does every year in the playoffs (i.e. Durant gets all the calls; Kobe doesn’t? Please).
Shaq was getting away with murder as the biggest fouling machine the NBA has ever seen when the Lakers won their championships with him.
Lakers fans seem to think that the triangle offense is like the Bermuda Triangle.
The triangle offense means spreading the floor and letting Michael Jordan or Kobe beat their man off the dribble or pull up for the J.
Phil’s coaching doesn’t/didn’t allow those guys to jump higher than anybody else in the league and get a clear look at the basket.
Phil is all hype. He fools everybody into thinking he’s smart by spewing a bunch of mumbo jumbo in interviews that doesn’t make any sense.
Give Phil a mediocre team and he’s a mediocre coach.
Give him a bad team and nobody’s talking about him the way people talk about Larry Brown as a true teacher of the game.
Give him the best teams in the NBA and all he has to do is not screw it up. NBA legend? Please. NBA opportunist? I’ll give him that.
