Possibly the best coach ever. Well beyond his time in understanding that the only thing that CAN'T be delegated to assistants is being an exceptional motivator with a high level of EQ. He knows that he is not a technical basketball genius. Anyone can motivate 90% of a team to work hard. It takes a different kind of person to motivate Kobe/Shaq/MJ to embrace championship habits above their egos. To be able to motivate people like Shaq, Kobe, MJ, etc and take them from great players to championship players is a far more rare and important skill than having a strict desefensive/offensive philosophy. In the near future people like Mike D'Antoni and Rick Carlisle will be top assistants. People like Phil Jackson will be head coaches. Having said all that, that drunk tweet is funny as hell.
hahahaha. nice. :grin: But seriously, people can't judge his ring obsession when this book is coming out. Modern publishing is all about a full-court press, so he's been told by the publisher to start a twitter account, to use the cover as his twitter image, etc. Not sure if they told him to tweet drunk though.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Much better<a href="http://t.co/6edST6FAjG" title="http://aol.it/10lkjGj">aol.it/10lkjGj</a></p>— Phil Jackson (@PhilJackson11) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilJackson11/status/317348106435960833">March 28, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Give me Red Aurbach .... He scouted the players, drafted them, developed them and won titles with them.
All he had to do was get Jordan to buy in, which Jordan was probably ready to do after getting his previous coach fired. Once you get great (in this case, legendary) players to buy in to what you're telling them, it should be easy. Rings followed, and then credibility with his other teams (Shaq, Bryant). I don't think the message is that different from coach to coach, but whether or not players will listen to you is a different story.
The fact that he never won a title without Bill Russell, and Russell won 2 titles himself as a player/coach should tell you something.
Except Russell won with players Auerbach drafted and developed. Further Russell ran the system Auerbach developed... So not sure what that is supposed to tell me. Auerbach all told won 16 titles, and played a huge part in Danny Ainge getting the GM job.
Too many coaches with great or deep teams: Jerry Sloan, Paul Westphal's Suns, George Karl's Sonics, Larry Brown's Pacers, Pat Riley's Knicks, Rick Adelman and Mike Dunleavy with the Blazers, Nelson's Warriors, didn't win anything when he did.
Translation: I'm ****ing drunk as **** and I'm still, even in this current state, 11X the coach D'antoni could ever hope to be, sweet hire, brah.
Kobe and Shaq played together for 3 or 4 years (or was it two) before Phil came in and they didn't win squat. Phil comes in and they immediately dominate. The Bulls were floundering with Doug Collins and Phil comes in and they dominate He may not be the coach that you want to start a team from scratch, but if you have talented players and need someone to push them over the top while managing egos, he is about as good as it gets. To me, that means he is a great coach
It's supposed to tell you that Auerbach was lucky to have Russell, who was responsible for all of his titles as a coach.
who the hell wants to coach scrubs?! to win a championship you need great players!! jordan didn't win anything until phil jackson came into his life!
