Phil Jackson at it Again.
by RyanMarcus on May 14, 2010 4:33 PM MST
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- When the Los Angeles Lakers clinched a berth in the Western Conference finals on Monday, Lakers coach Phil Jackson had nothing but praise for his team's upcoming opponent, the Phoenix Suns, saying that the Suns are playing their best basketball of the season.
On Friday, Jackson retreated from praise and started posturing when asked if it was difficult to simulate the Suns and their star point guard Steve Nash in practice during the long layoff before Game 1.
"Yeah, because you can't carry the ball like he does in practice," Jackson said, smiling as he moved his arm and turned over his palm, the symbol for an illegal carry in the unofficial sign language of basketball. "You can't pick that ball up and run with it."
I mean am I surprised? No, but do you think this is going to have any effect on the referees and how they look at nash?
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Phil is getting desperate
this is pretty lame attack, and Nash is way too mentally strong to fall for these mind games. But let him keep talking it just makes him look desperate.
LeBron or Bust !!!!
I don't think he's desperate
He’s just a dick and can’t/don’t bother to hide it.
Grant Hill is totally the next MJ!!
by gadogry on May 14, 2010 4:59 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
it worked against Durant
same story as vs the THunder …. he will uses his superior referee influantial skills against us
Shazzam!
Durant was 21
and Nash is…. well, still younger than me but old enough to laugh that off.
That quote is the last thing that would get under Nash’s skin. The dude is not insecure.
Twitter: @dahking
Too late to change the stupid twitter name. Did it as a joke to my teenager, but now I'm hooked on the news-feed aspect of twitter.
I'm sure the league has heard all this nonsense before...
And remember how we thought the calls were all going to go OKC’s way after that botched call in Utah? Yeah, didn’t work out so well for them.
Bright Side of the Sun, for all things Phoenix Suns. Twitter: @iamtrevorpaxton
Well, Phil would certainly
know all about it since MJ palmed the ball about every 4th time he had it. Don’t recall that bothering Phil much for some reason.
Pretty much all pro players carry the ball
It’s just become the norm, and refs look the other way. It happens at all levels of ball, because I remember in high school my coach used to always tell us to watch guards and see how many of them carried the ball.
Find something else to bitch about Phil.
More mind games from old PJ...With all this mental masturbation...
Phil is probably going to go blind…
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can and slap the crap out of him before he figures out you are there...."
- me into a mental stupor after forgetting the rest of Ulysses S. Grant's speech....
And it never will on get called on Lord Kobe Almighty...
But the Suns know and understand this..They know it’s not the time to complain or try to prime the refs…It’s time to play winning ball or go home!
GO SUNS!!!!
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can and slap the crap out of him before he figures out you are there...."
- me into a mental stupor after forgetting the rest of Ulysses S. Grant's speech....
Oh snap!
Blogging Suns Basketball . twitter: @sethpo
by Seth Pollack on May 14, 2010 6:01 PM MST up reply actions
sweet!
Twitter: @dahking
Too late to change the stupid twitter name. Did it as a joke to my teenager, but now I'm hooked on the news-feed aspect of twitter.
Eh, it doesn't bother me.
Phil can talk all he wants. Our team doesn’t get swayed because our team has mental toughness. Plus, our team has shown that we are much better without Shaq and we’ve rebounded from a team that missed the playoffs to a team that’s back in the Western Conference Finals. In the end, it’s the TEAM that plays the best that will win. Our team has shown that it’s all about team effort.
Note: If the Suns possibly lose this series, don’t blame the referees. David Stern’s dream Finals matchup is Kobe vs. LeBron. Yet I don’t see LeBron anywhere in the Conference Finals. Don’t say he rigs games. If a star player gets preferential treatment, I doubt LeBron would’ve been called for 9 turnovers.
In Nash I Trust! Steve Nash DOES play defense, foo!
The relevance of this post has become all more salient.
Will David Stern put the cabosh on Phil Jackson’s media spin?
http://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2010/4/23/1439140/the-putz-vs-the-putz-master
And potentially ruin a bonanza like a Lakers-Celtics Finals.. ?
Oh, the level of intricacy at work…
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can and slap the crap out of him before he figures out you are there...."
- me into a mental stupor after forgetting the rest of Ulysses S. Grant's speech....
Exactly.
On one hand, you’ve already fined him for disrespecting the officials, and by saying “Steve Nash carries the ball every time he touches it”, you’re essentially calling out the officials for not calling it ever. So wouldn’t this be grounds for a second fine? Stern said the “rhetoric has died down”, but it just flared up again. And will continue to flare up, because it’s Phil Jackson.
On the other hand, you have the idea of another Lakers vs. Celtics Finals. If you told me David Stern wasn’t salivating at the idea of that, I’d call you an outright liar.
Decisions, decisions…
Bright Side of the Sun, for all things Phoenix Suns. Twitter: @iamtrevorpaxton
by Trevor Paxton on May 14, 2010 9:23 PM MST up reply actions
One of the few reasons I am not a big PJ fan...
Is exactly this; the way he bitches about the officiating yet he coaches one of the most protected players (and teams for that matter) in entire NBA. His team will get away with just as much, if not more, on a given night but he continues to complain when calls happen to go the other team’s way. In terms of titles won, he is the greatest coach in history but my goodness, listening to him piss and moan about things like this is downright irritating. The whole “mind games” act is getting about as old as he is.
They're trying to take my tortillas!
Phil is just having fun
with the media. He goes about it differently than Popovich, but they get the same result. If you give the reporter a little sugar, he gets distracted stops digging for gold. I’m sure Phil saved himself from deflecting half-dozen more strategy-related questions…
Twitter: @dahking
Too late to change the stupid twitter name. Did it as a joke to my teenager, but now I'm hooked on the news-feed aspect of twitter.
yea a 2 time mvp carries the ball
do you realize how ridiculous that sounds
he's not a 2-time MVP because he carries the ball
he’s a 2-time MVP because he doesn’t get whistled for it. ever.
by ZonaFlash on May 15, 2010 11:56 AM MST up reply actions 1 recs
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That is just elemental basketball. There are those in the NBA who think the Dreamshake was a license to travel. Personally, I never saw the guy travel, not once, not ever :) What makes that a wise basketball comment instead of a homer whine is that the refs pretty much didn’t either.
Meh its just another one of Phil's mind games
he pulled the same thing with Durant and Durant ended up taking the bait. If I were Nash, I would ignore it, which he will probably will do anyway. In the end, he still respects Nash and the Suns.
"Just by the aura of D.J. Mbenga being there, the shot missed."
Nash's response
Nash’s response to Phil Jackson, “the best coach in the league, Gregg Popovich, didn’t have a problem with it last week.”
lol
Alvin Gentry: "We're a little finesse team that plays hard"
This is why w elove Steve Nash...
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can and slap the crap out of him before he figures out you are there...."
- me into a mental stupor after forgetting the rest of Ulysses S. Grant's speech....
It was classic Nash
Gentry was great too with the dodging elbows crack.
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