April 4th: Bickerstaff Is Jackson's Latest Sparring Partner. Numbers detail Bryant's season. Does Jackson want Rush back?

 
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:22 am    Post subject: April 4th: Bickerstaff Is Jackson's Latest Sparring Partner. Numbers detail Bryant's season. Does Jackson want Rush back?

Bickerstaff Is Jackson's Latest Sparring Partner
By Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer
April 4, 2006

This season Phil Jackson has exchanged insults with Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban and has been referred to as "one of the great complainers of all time" by Miami Heat Coach Pat Riley.

Next up? General Manager-Coach Bernie Bickerstaff of the Charlotte Bobcats.


Bickerstaff took exception to Jackson's comments regarding the Bobcats' waiving of Kareem Rush and criticized Jackson's assertion that the move was "vindictive" because it was done with so few games left in the season.

"Phil has that ability [to judge]," Bickerstaff sarcastically told the Charlotte Observer. "He was in our locker room … at our games."

Bickerstaff also mentioned the tell-all book written by Jackson in 2004, in which numerous locker-room conversations were revealed and Kobe Bryant was labeled uncoachable at times.

"He probably forgets he wrote a book for profit," Bickerstaff said. "So he has a lot of credibility."

The Bobcats waived Rush on Saturday, with a statement from Bickerstaff saying, "The Bobcats are about two things — hard work and maximum effort. With that in mind, we think that it is best to go in a different direction with Kareem."

Jackson questioned the timing of the decision.

"There's, what, eight games left in the season?" he said Sunday. "You could do that probably April 30, or whenever the season's over if you put him on the inactive list."


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:23 am    Post subject:

Bickering continues with Bickerstaff
By Ross Siler, Staff Writer

Phil Jackson had his say before Sunday afternoon's game and Bernie Bickerstaff had his Monday, the debate between the two men taking on a new dimension about just what is "vindictive" on the part of an NBA coach.

So which is worse: Cutting a player with nine games left in the regular season, as Bickerstaff did with former Lakers guard Kareem Rush, or calling Kobe Bryant "uncoachable" in the pages of a best-selling book?

There has been little mention of Jackson's book in his comeback season with the Lakers, but Bickerstaff brought it up Monday in responding to Jackson's criticism about the second-year Charlotte Bobcats' handling of Rush.

"He probably forgets he wrote a book for profit and (revealed everybody's confidences)," Bickerstaff told the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. "So he has no credibility."

Bickerstaff, the Bobcats' coach and general manager, sarcastically added: "Phil has that ability (to judge). He was in our locker room ... at our games."

Jackson said the Bobcats should have waited to waive Rush until season's end. Bickerstaff also issued a scathing statement in the press release announcing the decision, saying the Bobcats are about "hard work and maximum effort" and suggesting Rush wasn't.

"I thought it was vindictive," Jackson said Sunday. "I don't like to see it because he's one of the guys that we nurtured here. He was contributing to us a lot in the championship (run) two years ago."
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:25 am    Post subject:

Bickerstaff's retort: Jackson has little credibility
Coach says Jackson isn't aware of team's affairs
RICK BONNELL
rbonnell [ at ] charlotteobserver.com



Bernie Bickerstaff to Zen Master: Mind your own business.

On Sunday, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson criticized the Charlotte Bobcats for abruptly cutting Kareem Rush, calling the act "vindictive." On Monday, Bickerstaff -- the Bobcats' coach-general manager -- bit back.

"Phil has that ability" to judge, Bickerstaff said sarcastically. "He was in our locker room ... at our games."

Then Bickerstaff brought up Jackson's tell-all memoir, "The Last Season,'' on the Lakers' 2003-04 season. Jackson frequently revealed private conversations in that book and wrote, among other criticisms of players and colleagues, that Kobe Bryant was "uncoachable."
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:27 am    Post subject:

IT'S A HALL OF SHAME

By PETER VECSEY


April 4, 2006 -- HOOP DU JOUR
Stop snubbing Jax, Riley, Pop
TODAY's plan is to reduce to rubble my reputation for sticking it to Phil Jackson, Pat Riley, Gregg Popovich and, to a lesser extent, Rudy Tomjanovich.

Out of the last 24 NBA titles, starting in 1982, the above coaches have accounted for 18; nine by Jackson's Bulls and Lakers, four by Riley's Lakers, three by Popovich's Spurs and two by Tomjanovich's Rockets. Rudy T also won Olympic gold.

None is in the Hall of Fame, and, if I'm not mistaken, not one of them has ever been nominated.

Yet each year, when the new inductees are celebrated and the achievements of Jackson, Riley, Popovich and Tomjanovich are disregarded, the league's Hall monitors and the rest of roundball pitifully look the other way and let the shameful slight slide.

I find that scandalously odd.

Especially since the remaining six championship teams were coached by Billy Cunningham (Sixers), K.C. Jones (Celtics, twice), Chuck Daly (Pistons, twice, plus Olympic gold) and Larry Brown (Pistons).
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:49 am    Post subject:

Numbers detail Bryant's season

By KEVIN DING
The Orange County Register

LOS ANGELES – A peripheral sports fan was overheard recently saying that he didn't know anything that happened in the current NBA season except that Kobe Bryant scored 81 points in one game.

Bryant's Jan. 22 scoring uprising against Toronto topped all but Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in NBA history and set league records in the shot-clock era for highest percentage of a team's points (66.4 percent) and a game's points (35.8).

NBA statistical analyst Dean Oliver, a consultant for the Seattle SuperSonics and author of "Basketball on Paper," noted of the 81-point game: "Kobe's defensive rating was also among the best on the team.

It would take some work to do a good evaluation, but there is no doubt that Kobe's performance is a candidate for best individual game in history."
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:50 pm    Post subject:

Bickerstaff's retort: Jackson has little credibility
Coach says Jackson isn't aware of team's affairs
RICK BONNELL
rbonnell ( a t ) charlotteobserver.com


Bernie Bickerstaff to Zen Master: Mind your own business.

On Sunday, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson criticized the Charlotte Bobcats for abruptly cutting Kareem Rush, calling the act "vindictive." On Monday, Bickerstaff -- the Bobcats' coach-general manager -- bit back.

"Phil has that ability" to judge, Bickerstaff said sarcastically. "He was in our locker room ... at our games."

Then Bickerstaff brought up Jackson's tell-all memoir, "The Last Season,'' on the Lakers' 2003-04 season. Jackson frequently revealed private conversations in that book and wrote, among other criticisms of players and colleagues, that Kobe Bryant was "uncoachable."

At the time, the Lakers distanced themselves from the book, noting various inaccuracies.

"He probably forgets he wrote a book for profit and (revealed everybody's confidences). So he has no credibility," Bickerstaff said of Jackson.
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