carolinajazz
Well-Known Member
....almost identical to mine! "New York Knicks president Phil Jackson isn't a fan of the way the game is being played these days...the current "individualized" style of the NBA isn't disciplined and -- even more so -- just isn't pleasing to the eye. (Unwatchable?)
"When I watch some of these playoff games, and I look at what's being run out there, as what people call an offense, it's really quite remarkable to see how far our game has fallen from a team game," "Four guys stand around watching one guy dribble a basketball."
"I watch LeBron James, for example. He might [travel] every other time he catches the basketball (they certainly "palm the ball" or "carry" it) if he's off the ball. He catches the ball, moves both his feet. You see it happen all the time. There's no structure, there's no discipline, there's no 'How do we play this game' type of attitude. And it goes all the way through the game. To the point where now guys don't screen -- they push guys off with their hands."
He said the problem is widespread as teams shun structured offenses in favor of constant pick-and-roll plays.
"The game actually has some beauty to it, and we've kind of taken some of that out of it to make it individualized," Jackson told Bleacher Report. "It's a lot of who we are as a country, individualized stuff."
https://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/st...k-knicks-criticizes-lebron-james-nba-offenses
"When I watch some of these playoff games, and I look at what's being run out there, as what people call an offense, it's really quite remarkable to see how far our game has fallen from a team game," "Four guys stand around watching one guy dribble a basketball."
"I watch LeBron James, for example. He might [travel] every other time he catches the basketball (they certainly "palm the ball" or "carry" it) if he's off the ball. He catches the ball, moves both his feet. You see it happen all the time. There's no structure, there's no discipline, there's no 'How do we play this game' type of attitude. And it goes all the way through the game. To the point where now guys don't screen -- they push guys off with their hands."
He said the problem is widespread as teams shun structured offenses in favor of constant pick-and-roll plays.
"The game actually has some beauty to it, and we've kind of taken some of that out of it to make it individualized," Jackson told Bleacher Report. "It's a lot of who we are as a country, individualized stuff."
https://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/st...k-knicks-criticizes-lebron-james-nba-offenses
