<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Accord:</div><div class="quote_post">To everyone who said that Phil Jackson does a great job of keeping his players' ego's in check, that's not true. Doesn't anyone remember a few months ago where Kobe's teammates criticized him in the press about not passing enough and hogging the ball and then the very next game Kobe did not take one shot at all the entire game until the 4th quarter and he refused to shoot the ball even if he had a wide open look (and he had many of them). Phil Jackson did a real great job of keeping Kobe's ego in check on that night . Anytime something goes wrong for the Lakers, someone from the organization will come out in the press placing the blame on someone else and criticizing other players on the Fakers in the press and the next game there is always some on court vendetta and Phil Jackson does a piss poor job of controlling it and the ego's of his players have cost them to lose games on many occasions this season.</div> True, there's far to much drama that goes on with this team. I still think he's a great coach, it's just to much of a hollywood thing for any coach to handle the right way now. I hope GP and every chemistry problem between the team can somehow dissolve very soon. Or they'll be going home crushed.
Larry Brown proved in this series that titles don't mean a damn thing when judging a coach. Brown gave Jackson a clinic.
Titles don't mean a damn thing? I'd say titles are very important when comparing and contrasting great coaches. Larry Brown already had two NCAA championships to solidify his greatness as a coach.
