Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:48 pm Post subject: How far could a 60 something Phil Jackson get this exact same Lakers team?
this is obviously purely hypothetical Phil ain't coming back at 78 years old. BUT, just for fun... how for could an early 60s phil jackson push this exact team?
yes, with his staff. tex winters, frank hamblen, kurt rambis
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: How far could a 60 something Phil Jackson get this exact same Lakers team?
oaktown_dimond wrote:
this is obviously purely hypothetical Phil ain't coming back at 78 years old. BUT, just for fun... how for could an early 60s phil jackson push this exact team?
yes, with his staff. tex winters, frank hamblen, kurt rambis
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: How far could a 60 something Phil Jackson get this exact same Lakers team?
oaktown_dimond wrote:
this is obviously purely hypothetical Phil ain't coming back at 78 years old. BUT, just for fun... how for could an early 60s phil jackson push this exact team?
yes, with his staff. tex winters, frank hamblen, kurt rambis
Phil Jackson with LBJ and AD?
Championship on that alone.
Phil Jackson with LBJ, AD, DLO, Reaves, Vando and Dinwiddie, Wood, Hachimura and Hayes off the bench?
Multiple Championships.
Consider the fact we have 4 playmakers in the first unit if we ran DLO/AR/Vando/LBJ/AD there's 4 playmakers in that lineup. In the triangle if modified to the modern era, there'd be a lot of open opportunities.
The triangle has a lot of pick and roll and three point plays set up within it. We didn't see a lot of that from the PG perspective because we didn't have a PG to run that, as Kobe was the defacto "PG" in the triangle.
But with the backcourt we have + LBJ and AD's passing abilities it'd probably be very beautiful basketball to watch.
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: How far could a 60 something Phil Jackson get this exact same Lakers team?
defense wrote:
oaktown_dimond wrote:
this is obviously purely hypothetical Phil ain't coming back at 78 years old. BUT, just for fun... how for could an early 60s phil jackson push this exact team?
yes, with his staff. tex winters, frank hamblen, kurt rambis
If we ran the modern variant of the Triangle with the Motion offense and utilizing more three point sets like Golden State does, and Phil was coaching it? We'd probably be a top 3 seed right now. _________________ How NBA 2K18 failed the All-Time Lakers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxMBYm3wwxk
That was well over 500 before Pau came as a core with Kobe and Odom … then he got Pau with no training camp midsession in the road trip and he went to the finals without Bynum and Ariza
If you take AD and Bron out the question
Dlo
Reaves
Rui
Vando
Wood
Prince
Hayes
That’s a core he can win with just like the smush years and the mlb years for MJ if you give him AD and Bron
This coach went years where his third best players on his team were
- BJ Armstrong (MJ retired)
- Derek Fisher (3 peat)
- Luke Walton (pre Pau)
And he finished over 500 … this can’t be a question
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:51 pm Post subject:
At least the Western Conference Finals.
But Phil would've had to let this team be a fast-breaking team and play early offense instead of always making them set up the triangle offense. This Lakers team is best off playing in the first five to seven seconds of the shot clock. _________________ Lakers 49ers Chargers Dodgers
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:04 pm Post subject:
I don't think our roster is a great match for Phil. He'd be dangerous with Minny or Philly's roster though. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:38 pm Post subject:
Phil Coached the Albany Patroons to a title
They were a rag tag bunch
Phil drove the BUS
Phil convinced every player to put their pay into a pot and distribute it out fairly.. with more going to players who had to leave family behind to come out and fight for wins
The Windmill Defender knows how to get more out of players than they knew was in them
Unpopular opinion: Mike D'Antoni would do wonders with this roster.
He just about won 30 games in that season with Nick Young, Kendall Marshall, Wes Johnson, Jodie Meeks, etc. Hell of a feat looking back if we are being honest lol
Well, considering that Phil Jackson actually learns from his mistakes and knows how to adjust in-game, he probably goes a lot further than Ham Sandwich.
That just reminded me that when Phil was running the Knicks he got fined for like a compliment he had on DLo when he was at OSU after a game he scouted him or something like that lol
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:47 pm Post subject:
It’s a real shame that we never got to see Phil Jackson coach LeBron. He would have been the ultimate Triangle Offense player.
What’s funny to me is that posters here would complain about how Phil was senile during the three straight championships runs from 07-08 to 09-10, how Luke was his son, etc. And then did the same thing with Mike Brown and D’Antoni, both previous and future Coach of the Year recipients. Now we get to see what a truly terrible coach looks like. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
I have serious doubts about implementing the triangle in 2024 as well as LeBron (or his “posse”) wanting to play for Phil. PJ is seriously out of touch with players today. _________________ 14-5-3-12
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