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36 Karat · 11-10-2012, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by King Sancho Fantastic

@Mike_Bresnahan: Lakers' meeting with Phil Jackson is over. No official job offer was made but it's well understood that the job is Jackson's if he wants it.

Premature Phil Jackulators...

**RollWithEm** · 11-10-2012, 02:06 PM

So... the triangle?

**roux2dope** · 11-10-2012, 03:39 PM

guess phils not satisfied with his career... see's a couple more hall of famers he can get rings for

**Dre** · 11-10-2012, 03:46 PM

It's not that he's not satisfied with his resume or whatever...I was watching the Jimmy Johnson football life episode (what I'm about to say is ironic) and LeBatard was talking about how coaches are just drug addicts...and they'll always come back if they find the right situation. So in that regard there's nothing that satisfies people like that.

Phil Jackson is just a basketball coach and pretty much everything he's been doing the past year has probably been stuff he'd usually do around basketball season...hard to make hobbies become your new life especially when the game is still so fresh.

Lucky for coaches, unlike athletes they can just keep coming back health permitting.

67 years old is not that old in coach years.

**roux2dope** · 11-10-2012, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Dre

It's not that he's not satisfied with his resume or whatever...I was watching the Jimmy Johnson football life episode (what I'm about to say is ironic) and LeBatard was talking about how coaches are just drug addicts...and they'll always come back if they find the right situation. So in that regard there's nothing that satisfies people like that.

Phil Jackson is just a basketball coach and pretty much everything he's been doing the past year has probably been stuff he'd usually do around basketball season...hard to make hobbies become your new life especially when the game is still so fresh.

Lucky for coaches, unlike athletes they can just keep coming back health permitting.

67 years old is not that old in coach years.

The right situation for Phil is whichever team has the most hall of famers on it

**Dre** · 11-10-2012, 03:49 PM

You sound a tad crabbish, what you don't like Phil Jackson

**roux2dope** · 11-10-2012, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Dre

You sound a tad crabbish, what you don't like Phil Jackson

Meh... the guy has coached the greatest of the great for the last 20 years...hard for me to really judge him as a coach when he has always dodged adversity and only seems to latch on to these glorious situations...i dont respect him as much as others do that's for sure

**Dre** · 11-10-2012, 04:00 PM

He definitely dealt with adversity in Chicago and LA though. I don't know if any coach could've navigated Kobe and Shaq to three titles, or helped Michael Jordan see the light and translate that to 6 rings. And the Bulls and Lakers were always topheavy teams, the triangle is what made the roleplayers worth a damn offensively. He squeezed production out of guys that would be apart of 20 win teams other wise.

I suppose I get what you're saying but it's a give and take.

And FWIW he was prepared to seriously discuss coaching the Knicks before they extended Woodson...

Marcus13 · 11-10-2012, 04:25 PM

Gee, what a surprise.

But obviously it's not about making a "surprise" move ; it's about getting the best man for the job. And there's no doubt that's Phil

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**Jamel Irief** · 11-10-2012, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by roux2dope

Meh... the guy has coached the greatest of the great for the last 20 years...hard for me to really judge him as a coach when he has always dodged adversity and only seems to latch on to these glorious situations...i dont respect him as much as others do that's for sure

Yeah those 05 lottery lakers were LOADED. They had Kwame Brown, Luke Walton AND Smush Parker starting! The glory was too much for one team!

**Dre** · 11-10-2012, 04:30 PM

You kind of helped his point if you did anything at all with that post

**Jamel Irief** · 11-10-2012, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Dre

You kind of helped his point if you did anything at all with that post

Sure I did. He said Phil always dodges adversity and only looks for glorious situations, and I pointed out that yet he signed up to coach a team that missed the playoffs for the second time in 26 years.

Looks like I kind of did help him.

**Dre** · 11-10-2012, 04:36 PM

true

XxIrvingxX · 11-10-2012, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Jamel Irief

Yeah those 05 lottery lakers were LOADED. They had Kwame Brown, Luke Walton AND Smush Parker starting! The glory was too much for one team!

God I still can't believe how bad that team was...

**Ron** · 11-10-2012, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by roux2dope

Meh... the guy has coached the greatest of the great for the last 20 years...hard for me to really judge him as a coach when he has always dodged adversity and only seems to latch on to these glorious situations...i dont respect him as much as others do that's for sure

That's because you are reacting via knee-jerk.

There's a couple of other ways of looking at it.

1. The Lakers have had essentially six coaches since 1996. Only one of them has able to coach them to titles, and that totaled five.

2. Phil actually came back to a very mediocre team in 2005. (Click here for that pathetic roster.) I am not sure why so many people forget that. He basically built that team up from an also-ran to a two-time championship team.

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11-10-2012, 03:39 PM	#18 (permalink)
roux2dope I'm perfectly calm Dude Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wauwatosa, WI Age: 31 Posts: 10,545 Rep Power: 6986292	Re: Reports: "The job is Jackson's if he wants it." guess phils not satisfied with his career... see's a couple more hall of famers he can get rings for

11-10-2012, 03:46 PM	#19 (permalink)
Dre do better Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 25 Posts: 41,325 Rep Power: 21474887	Re: Reports: "The job is Jackson's if he wants it." It's not that he's not satisfied with his resume or whatever...I was watching the Jimmy Johnson football life episode (what I'm about to say is ironic) and LeBatard was talking about how coaches are just drug addicts...and they'll always come back if they find the right situation. So in that regard there's nothing that satisfies people like that. Phil Jackson is just a basketball coach and pretty much everything he's been doing the past year has probably been stuff he'd usually do around basketball season...hard to make hobbies become your new life especially when the game is still so fresh. Lucky for coaches, unlike athletes they can just keep coming back health permitting. 67 years old is not that old in coach years.

11-10-2012, 03:49 PM	#21 (permalink)
Dre do better Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 25 Posts: 41,325 Rep Power: 21474887	Re: Reports: "The job is Jackson's if he wants it." You sound a tad crabbish, what you don't like Phil Jackson

11-10-2012, 04:00 PM	#23 (permalink)
Dre do better Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 25 Posts: 41,325 Rep Power: 21474887	Re: Reports: "The job is Jackson's if he wants it." He definitely dealt with adversity in Chicago and LA though. I don't know if any coach could've navigated Kobe and Shaq to three titles, or helped Michael Jordan see the light and translate that to 6 rings. And the Bulls and Lakers were always topheavy teams, the triangle is what made the roleplayers worth a damn offensively. He squeezed production out of guys that would be apart of 20 win teams other wise. I suppose I get what you're saying but it's a give and take. And FWIW he was prepared to seriously discuss coaching the Knicks before they extended Woodson...

11-10-2012, 04:25 PM	#24 (permalink)
Marcus13 Jesus Shuttlesworth Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indianapolis Age: 25 Posts: 13,977 Rep Power: 3023600	Gee, what a surprise. But obviously it's not about making a "surprise" move ; it's about getting the best man for the job. And there's no doubt that's Phil Sent from my iPhone using VS Free __________________

11-10-2012, 04:30 PM	#26 (permalink)
Dre do better Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 25 Posts: 41,325 Rep Power: 21474887	Re: Reports: "The job is Jackson's if he wants it." You kind of helped his point if you did anything at all with that post

11-10-2012, 04:36 PM	#28 (permalink)
Dre do better Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 25 Posts: 41,325 Rep Power: 21474887	Re: Reports: "The job is Jackson's if he wants it." true

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