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Phil Jackson's assessment of today's NBA.....

carolinajazz said:
....I'm suggesting that today's NBA product is so pathetically flawed...that I'm at a loss for words as to what the draw ACTUALLY is, either in person or on television! It's unfathomable to me that the league is actually making ton's of money with the overall skilled (should I say "unskilled") players that they employ! The NBA is just one step above the quality of basketball displayed in the "AND1" league....with the rules violations they are permitted to get away with! Yes, I am seriously "old school" (not back to the Bob Cousy days old!) and am just appalled at the bastardizing of the game being played in today's NBA! I will concede that the 3 point shooting on display by some players and teams is amazing at times, but even there, for every good game and player shooting 3's, you have 5 that are stomach turning!
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CJ, did you ever see anyone with such a combination of ball handling and shooting skills as Steph Curry -- and don't say Pistol Pete, because he was not a good shooter but a volume shooter like Trey, only worse. Of course he was a great passer too unlike Trey. I actually don't remember much about Maravich's play in the NBA until the later years. To be honest I wasn't a big fan of him like you. His gunning in college really turned me off to him as a player.
 
Eenie-Meenie said:
CJ, did you ever see anyone with such a combination of ball handling and shooting skills as Steph Curry -- and don't say Pistol Pete, because he was not a good shooter but a volume shooter like Trey, only worse. Of course he was a great passer too unlike Trey. To be honest I wasn't a big fan of him like you. His gunning in college really turned me off to him as a player.
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...who ever said I was a big fan of Pete Maravich? Flamboyant, yes! Fundamentally sound? Not hardly! Turrible defense, too! Curry, over all, has turned out to be a much better shooter and distributor of the ball than Maravich! But even Curry could improve his shot selection, true or false?
 
 
carolinajazz said:
....I'm suggesting that today's NBA product is so pathetically flawed...that I'm at a loss for words as to what the draw ACTUALLY is, either in person or on television! It's unfathomable to me that the league is actually making ton's of money with the overall skilled (should I say "unskilled") players that they employ! The NBA is just one step above the quality of basketball displayed in the "AND1" league....with the rules violations they are permitted to get away with! Yes, I am seriously "old school" (not back to the Bob Cousy days old!) and am just appalled at the bastardizing of the game being played in today's NBA! I will concede that the 3 point shooting on display by some players and teams is amazing at times, but even there, for every good game and player shooting 3's, you have 5 that are stomach turning!
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Yet you can't seem to turn away from this hideous product. Very strange. Were you aware that you are free to quit watching and commenting if you do not like the NBA?
 
ThaPhunkPhenomenon said:
He can comment i he want!!!! You can't say!
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Didn't say that he can't comment, but I do find it strange that he wouldn't simply move on to something he likes. You don't find it ironic that this guy devours the NBA product while simultaneously being flabbergasted that anybody else would watch it at all?
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
Didn't say that he can't comment, but I do find it strange that he wouldn't simply move on to something he likes. You don't find it ironic that this guy devours the NBA product while simultaneously being flabbergasted that anybody else would watch it at all?
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He is just mad all the time I think.
 
The ideal is the Spurs and Warriors -- you can't get any better team play than that. You have to go back to the early 70s Knicks to see such ball movement. Mr. Jackson sounds like someone who just bought a case of sour grapes, especially when his team was one of the laughing stocks of the NBA.
 
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