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RIP TEX WINTER
Sad news in the basketball world. The Guru of the Triangle offense passed away on Wednesday. He was 96.
“Basketball and teaching was his calling.”
– Phil Jackson on Tex Winter
Tex once famously asked beseechingly why, “If an English teacher takes a student home for dinner, he’s a humanitarian. If a basketball coach does, he’s a crook.”
https://www.nba.com/bulls/history/tex-teacher-and-pioneer-game
WI-FI. JAVA AND MUCH NEEDED A.C.
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RED HOLZMAN
“The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance.”
TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION
Via Phil Jackson:
“Today’s players simply lack the skills to play the triangle. They know how to play one-on-one, catch-and-shoot, and they’ve mastered crossover dribbles, spins, playing off of screens and step-back shots. They don’t know how to execute things like inside-reverse pivots and other basic footwork. They have no sense of timing or organization. They don’t really know how to play five-on-five basketball. It’s strictly generational.”
YOU MUST LEARN
“The first rule of learning is the desire to learn.”
-Phil Jackson
It’s so true.
By the way, I grabbed that quote from Jackson from his book, “The Last Season,” it’s an awesome read.
The player (and coach) need to have a desire to learn. We don’t know everything.
PHIL JACKSON
“There are critics? Who are these people? Why would people even say that? Do they have 11 championships to show you when they talk about that? They got a lot of excuses. That’s the way it is.”
PHIL JACKSON
To Kristaps Porzingis in their first meeting:
“What do you know about basketball?”
PHIL JACKSON
“You do need great players to win the championship, but having to always chase the best talent in free agency eventually becomes a mind-set of, well, the best talent wins as opposed to who plays the best team basketball. We’re not going to punch all the right buttons in the process of doing this. But we’re looking for multiple talents, drive, intelligence, guys that will play defense.”
PLAY THE RIGHT WAY 