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PHIL JACKSON: "LeBron might travel every other time he catches the basketball"

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Sccit:
“I watch LeBron James, for example,” he said. “He might [travel] every other time he catches the basketball 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 concluded: “It struck me: How can we get so far away from the real truth of what we’re trying to do? And if you give people structure, just like a jazz musician—he’s gotta learn melody, and he’s gotta learn the basic parts of music—and then he can learn how to improvise. And that’s basically what team play is all about.”

The agitation in Jackson’s voice is evident.

“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 said. “It’s a lot of who we are as a country, individualized stuff.”

Indeed, Jackson seems much less concerned with validating the triangle than with the state of the game itself.

“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,” Jackson said. “Four guys stand around watching one guy dribble a basketball.”


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TraceOneInfinite:
yeah, this was one of the things I was looking at

Sccit:
HIS FOOTWORK IS ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: Sccit on June 23, 2015, 11:24:55 AM ---HIS FOOTWORK IS ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE

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or his footwork is genius.... I mean he is taking advantage of an oversight in the rule book and exploiting the hell out of it, getting an extra step on defenders, makes him appear faster and more in control than he really is

Sccit:

--- Quote from: Infinite Trapped In 1996 on June 24, 2015, 04:57:25 AM ---
--- Quote from: Sccit on June 23, 2015, 11:24:55 AM ---HIS FOOTWORK IS ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE

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or his footwork is genius.... I mean he is taking advantage of an oversight in the rule book and exploiting the hell out of it, getting an extra step on defenders, makes him appear faster and more in control than he really is

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don't think it's a calculated thing lol he's traveling because thats how he's played his whole life, not because he's tryna bend the rules

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