Phil Jackson is a Putz

but man, that was a joke last night. I’m sorry but my hatred for KG goes way deeper than my hatred for the L*kers, and that was a JOKE. 10 FTA for LA the ENTIRE GAME? The T they called on Kobe was bs too. I honestly hope that LA beats Boston by 30 points next game.

And Phil Jackson was complaining about some phantom ‘extra FT’ someone got that never really existed, but he was going on and on about it all sweaty and dumb looking like a big hairy baby. It was very silly, and all the play-by-play guys could do was say “we’re not sure what he was talking about, because no one shot an extra FT…”

For a guy who has won 9 championships, been gifted the best players in the last 20 years, he sure acts like a victim out there. THIS is why he doesn’t get the respect the ancient great coaches get, because he whines over things that 9 times out of 10 benefits his team.

And Mark Twain, I’d argue the “Kobe redemption story” and “Jackson becomes winningest coach of all time” is better than the “Celtics win another title with a Frankenstein team”, and the NBA prefers the former. Also, if LA wins, that’s the beginning of a 2-3 year dynasty in most peoples’ eyes. Again, something the NBA likes: big market dynasty.

LA has been gifted Derek Fisher, Pau Gasol, and historically has gotten the close calls and star power calls. To whine about it in interview and press conferences repeatedly is pathetic.

I just talked to my fiancee, who is at work; she works with a lot of Laker fans (not surprising since we live in LA). They are all whining and complaining about the refs, say stuff like the game was stolen from them. The sense of entitlement is why they are some of the worst fans in sports.

I get what ya mean, Dave. Refs make bad calls. Refs make tough calls. It doesn’t make it the reason you lost the game. Phil Jackson never takes responsibility for a loss… it’s always the refs, the rainy Portland weather, veiled (or not so veiled) sarcastic comments about another player’s injury or whatnot.

Phil Jackson is an overrated joke. When he had mediocre players, they were mediocre. When given the best in the game, they were up there. How is this different than Doc Rivers, for example?

(I know Jackson will get defenders, so I’ll just add it is my right to think he is an overrated joke and while the triangle is innovative all he does is have Tex Winters teach it. The rest of the time he counts his money and thinks up pithy snippy comments to say about other teams when they lose)

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Phil is just setting the agenda for the next game. He’s putting more pressure on the referees to call Game 3 in the Lakers favor. I’m sure some of that is venting, but the Zen-Master knows exactly what he’s doing. I wouldn’t mind if Nate did something similar in the Finals if the Blazers got hosed like that in the 1st half.

I agree – Jackson is a grade A whiner. But I would argue that his whining is prudent, and if he were coach of the Blazers I would commend him for it.

Essentially, it goes back to the logic that in order to get that call on Fisher in the Spurs-L*kers series Bones should have “sold the foul” better. Essentially, he should have flopped a little bit and then he would have drawn a whistle. The same logic applies to NBA coaches, and the good ones among them realize it. In a sense, Jackson is “selling the contact” the same way a known flopper like Manu does. Now the league and refs are essentially “on notice.”

Game 3 is going to be interesting.

When under duress, in crisis, or when money is involved.

Phil, we once again get to see who you really are.

I’ve NEVER seen any coach complain when they get calls that go there way.

I’m calling the grammar police on my last post.

I have never heard a coach complain after being helped by questionable calls.

Karma, Zen Master. Karma.

That´s why it is so important to report his behavior, to put the pressure on him, so he can´t use that tool or the tool won´t be useless. We are gonna face the Lakers for next years. Phil Jackson is a Putz!. Pass it.

I wish Phil Jackson being a Putz could be as simple giving him credit for trying to manipulate the refs BUT I don’t think it’s that simple. I think he’s a putz….period. You can coach, coach well, coach great and win titles and not be a putz. Funny how The Spurs have been able to win several titles and Popovich was never as whiny as Jackson after just two finals games.
Those saying that someday you’d hope The Blazers coach act in a similar fashion are just plain wrong. Sure defend your team, advocate for your team but first and foremost coach your team. Phil is a lock for the hall of fame, but I’ve never been a big fan. If you thought things were so lopsided and unfair in the game why not voice in during the game? Where were the time outs? Where was the “T” ? Doc Rivers has out coached Phil Jackson thus far and so far all Jackson has responded with is his usual wooden man stance during the game and a post game whine session. I hope this childish and obvious attempt to manipulate the refs backfires on the zen master. A little class and a little more coaching would be the better aproach.

Was last nights game called fairly? Heck no, and thats coming from someone who desperately wants to see the L*kers lose. A team should never shoot 4 times as many free throws as their opponent, especially in the finals. Unless one team has an agenda of hacking every player in front of them, there should never be this kind of freethrow gap…

if the tables would have been in his favor he would have said “I think the refs saw how we were attacking the basket and getting fouled while they settled for jump shots and crazy wild shots. We attacked the basket and they had no other choice to foul us or let us get two easy points.”

yes Jackson is doing this to get the refs to think a little before game 3.

I think that the Lkers were allowed to catch up to the Celtics to keep people interested in the game.

I think the Lkers will win games 3 and 4, by a good margin, but not sure yet how game 5 will play out.

And there was a SERIOUS bias, or whatever you want to call it, towards the Celtics last night. The Lakers have been on the benefiting end of this as well.

I think the point is more that it shouldn’t exist and it shouldn’t be so in your face. I definitely left that game with the impression that it was fixed. Obviously bad calls were made against the lakers and the same call was NOT called on the Celtics.

That said, the Celtics took advantage like a teenager on viagra who’s been locked away for twenty years and the lakers failed to take advantage of what few calls they did get.

Those bad calls killed momentum. They took Kobe out of the game. The Celtics would probably have still won, but that stuff shouldn’t be happening.

That said, Phil does complain a lot as well, even when he has no right to complain. During the first half last night, Phil had every right.

I hate how horrible the officiating in the L is, but if it doesn’t favor the L*kers, it’s the exception instead of the rule. They deserve it.

Phil J*ckson is the most over rated, pompous, egocentric, coat tail riding, credit stealing, empty suit wearing, smuck I have ever seen.

If I were an official I have to admit it would be difficult not to screw him over every chance I got. Especially after he gives you that condescending "I’m so much more important then you" look.

Also, he coaches the Lakers, so the more he cries the better.

having read thru Dave’s blog and all the posts Im surprised neither has mentioned the infamous “the Blazers tend to self destruct in the 4th quarter” remarks that got in our heads worse then the Spirit Mountain Casino Commercial Im waiting for somebody to post on YouTube. \

At the time, Jackson used that Jedi mind trick to into playing like stormtroopers, and it worked for them. Nobody can say Jackson’s remarks didnt get into the heads of our guys. He planted a seed of doubt and it germinated.

That’s why Phil is able to influence people. He knows what to say when and how. Its pitiful to watch and its almost predictability may be wearing thin. Lets hope.

Dave has always erred on the side of not complaining about the refs…I remember there was a game that (maybe somebody remembers which game it was) that everybody in Bedge was irate over the reffing of a certain game that he Blazers played but Dave wrote an excellent post about how we shouldn’t use that as an excuse. And I believe Coach Nate also mentioned that as well in the post-game interviews.
So yes, here at Bedge we might harp on the refs…but I don’t think that Coach Nate or Dave would ever stoop that low.

Like any good Blazer fan, I can’t stand Phil Jackson…. but the reality is, he does what he does because it works. He was the opposing team’s coach for the two biggest meltdowns in franchise history (Game 7 WCF 2000, Game 6 CS 1992… ‘92 was a choke/coaching blunder, but, as Dave correctly points out above, ‘00 was a robbery), so, in my mind, I’ve always entertained the thought of punching him in the face if I ever saw him on the street (to quote a favorite saying of Bill Simmons).

The guy plays mind games, pure and simple (remember when he called us a bunch of jackals?). He went after Pierce for faking his injury in game 1, now he’s taking on the refs in game 2. If he loses another game, he’ll find another axe to grind (conspiracy for KG? Favor for Danny Ainge? Who knows).

The reason I’m torn is because I’m developing an equally deep level of animosity, in a Bowen/Ginobili type of way, for Paul Pierce. The next time I see a close up of his whiny, pre-pubescent, injury-faking face, I’m going to smash my TV with a bat (not the hi-def one, though, that would be stupid).

So, you know, no matter who wins, one of those two people will lose, so that will make me happy. Win-win.