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PostPosted: 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
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:50 pm    Post subject: Re: How far could a 60 something Phil Jackson get this exact same Lakers team?

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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


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:52 pm    Post subject: Re: How far could a 60 something Phil Jackson get this exact same Lakers team?

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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.

But it'd take Phil an off-season to get everyone used to it.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:21 pm    Post subject: Re: How far could a 60 something Phil Jackson get this exact same Lakers team?

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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


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I agree PJ is the "God" of NBA coaches.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:45 pm    Post subject:

not much better with the current style of play.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:47 pm    Post subject:

Probably a 4 seed. He would have decent lineups but not push the seniors to much needlessly assuming he can modernize his systems Pop style
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:09 pm    Post subject:

a little better but he has no player leadership with this team something he always had.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:53 pm    Post subject:

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:14 pm    Post subject:

LakersRGolden wrote:
Probably a 4 seed. He would have decent lineups but not push the seniors to much needlessly assuming he can modernize his systems Pop style


To be fair to Phil he’s never missed the playoffs and he’s always finished over 500

Smush
Cook
Vujacic
Mihm
Farmar
George
Profit
Walton

Shammond
Smush
Farmar
Vujacic
Walton
Radmanovic
Cook
Kwame
Bynum
Evans
Turiaf


That’s his main core for 2 years around Kobe and Odom and he finished over 500 both years


Fisher
Ariza
Walton
Bynum
Kwame
Farmar
Vujacic
Turiaf
Radmanovic

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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PostPosted: 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.
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PostPosted: 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.
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PostPosted: 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

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:01 pm    Post subject:

Not as well as you would hope. Neither LBJ nor AD are good triangle players. I am curious to see someone like SPO
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:18 am    Post subject:

How much buy-in are we getting on the Triangle in this day and age?


Might as well ask if the Niners would have won the Superbowl if Vince Lombardi was coaching them.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:34 am    Post subject:

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
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:11 pm    Post subject:

With Phil?

At least a 50-win season minimum.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:04 pm    Post subject:

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:08 pm    Post subject:

Anyone still running triangle offense today?

Wonder how effective it would be in today’s game. I don’t think it will generate enough points.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:27 pm    Post subject:

The playoffs
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:32 pm    Post subject:

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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PostPosted: 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.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:26 pm    Post subject:

Phil had great player leadership from role players. Zero on this team. His best players were always animals . Zero on this team.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:40 pm    Post subject:

Zen master would outcoach chumps like Kerr and Malone.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:18 pm    Post subject:

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:11 pm    Post subject:

SGV-Laker fan wrote:
not much better with the current style of play.


The achilles heel of Phil coached teams was the three point shot.
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