It wasn't tactics that made Phil great, he knew how to get the best out of his players. He understood the concept of treating people the way he knew they wanted to be treated. He was an expert in human relations, and that's how he managed all of those egos for full seasons and playoffs, and did so successfully. That, and he was a master strategist. Phil always knew what tweaks he needed to make his team better. He wanted Ron Harper, known for his scoring, to be a defensive roleplayer because of his size and agility. He wanted Rodman because he knew that Rodman had the physicality and fearlessness to go head to head with a guy like Shaq, for example, who dominated them in the playoffs just before acquiring Rodman.
How does a rapist want to be treated? Probably like he did nothing wrong and his crime swept under the rug. It’s ok Kobe’s karma got him back and all is well.
I mean he also had the best player ever on 6 of his teams and the most dominant player ever on 3 more with then prime kobe for 2.....Point is dude had some fucking talent on his rosters as well.
Phil understood how to reign in his stars and reach out to them. Knowing how to adapt to different personalities is a very unique leadership quality that even most the great coaches didn’t have.
@user-vb2bt9kh1p popovich had Rodman who he demonized and ran out of San Antonio. Phil took him worked with him and rest is history. If not for Phil taking him in Rodman would’ve bounced team to team and eventually out of league.
@DevandJo another dense comment. All great coaches who won coached great players. That is dumbest detraction yet. Great players come with huge egos and difficult personalities. He managed to coach Shaq and Kobe to a threepeat despite fact they had the locker room divided and hated eachother. B Shaw who was on team said that Phil coached both Shaq and Kobe differently. You take him out the equation that team would implode and split up right away.
In the Philippines we have a Coach named Tim Cone who runs the triangle as well in our local league, the PBA (2nd oldest basketball league next to the NBA). Cone has been the most winngest coach in the history of the league and was credited for the only 2 Grandslam in the league (grandslam is when you win championship in all 3 conferences in one season). He is the current head coach of Gilas (Philippines' national team) that defeated Latvia (world number 6) on their home court last Olympic Qualifying Tournament.
@elijah Nahhhh! That league plays 3 titles each year. It's a duopolize league as well. Past 12 yrs Tim cone is under a San mig corp which pretty much owns that league. His only valid titles is with Alaska. Yes he does the triangle, but with out his resources to get star players from low end teams and refs he aint gonna win more than what he got with Alaska.
In fairness he had the best player in the league every time he coached with a young sidekick reaching their prime. I think that's were the dominance comes from.
You could also include Steve Kerr who based his coaching off of what Phil Jackson did and then went to the finals 5 years in a row and almost 3-peated again.
@@jaspermorant2352oh buddy, the triangle offense is basically the blueprint for the motion offense. Constant screens, passing and moving without the ball. Kerr just extended it to the three point line because he had two of the best shooters in his hands.
@@DKtrek21jordan/pippen/curry/thompson=triangle offense or whatever you decide to call it Doesn't work with regular teams Phil was just lucky all his carrier
One of his biggest criticisms is that he was working with the greatest players of all time, but those critics forget that, without him, they most likely wouldn't have been the greatest players of all time in the first place, he knew how to MAXIMIZE those players to their full potential.
he also coached against great teams with great players. Phil got the best out of great teams. As far as the criticism, no coach wins championships (especially more than one) with teams that aren't talented
In a sense yes, in team accomplishments but individually MJ's numbers dropped significantly. The price of being under the triangle offense and ultimately, the price of winning. Not bad.
Go back to the Playing days of Jackson. He played on a great team, with a great coach, a great culture, and great players. Clyde Frazier, Earl Monroe, Dave Debusschere, Bill Bradley, Willis Reed. Also a cast of supporting players like Phil. (Big rebounder, passer, defensive specialist. Had the nastiest elbows in the league). Phil had his model for a championship team and culture in his mind already. Red Holtzman.
This is all true, I'd like to add the fact that Jerry Krause fired Doug Collins because Collins refused to install the Triangle offense, he hired Phil to run it. Jordan hated it in the beginning because his averages dipped but the team was on the up. Jordan was more committed to the triangle offense than Kobe Bryant.
Kind of true. Kobe embraced the Triangle. Jordan was definitely against the Triangle at first but when PJ convinced Jordan that his scoring would remain the same, that is when Jordan embraced the Triangle.
@@kennethrobinson6738 Really? Because the way I remember it is, wasn't Kobe playing out of the triangle and it cost them playoff games. The entire 2004 finals against the Pistons, the Suns series in 2007 Phil called him out that he needed to pass the ball more. The entire 2006 year he never played in the Triangle, he was iso all year..So "embraced" I don't remember it that way. I do remember him committing to it once they got Gasol, he changed his number to 24, and he was winning again. That's just what I remember. Jordan, he would step out of the triangle in the 4th quarter when they needed shots. If they were ahead he played within the system, he ate at the line a lot and developed a killer jump shot. He went from averaging around 35 a game to like 30 and he was ok with it if they were winning and they were. Lastly, it's a boring system. I actually think and this is my opinion they could have put both players in any system and they would win championships. But if they just played ISO ball all game I don't believe they'd ever win anything.
@@colinforsecs3393I think Phil literally said Kobe ran it the best and you can’t run the triangle with a G League team with players who not only don’t belong in the NBA but are actually starting 2004 Finals Kobe could have avg 30PPG they still lose Pistons would have swept them if not for Kobe’s game 2 heroics
I'm reminded of a line from House M.D. where House is described as someone you manage rather than control. Phil managed his players. He didn't dominate, pull rank, attack, or beg. He worked with each player individually but in such a way as to shape them, so they all fit together into a championship team. It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty damn close.
When Phil Jackson coached the Albany Patroons, they were in the Continental Basketball Association, not Canadian. In 1999, Isiah Thomas acquired the CBA.
Albany Patroons were not a Canadian basketball team. They were in a league called the CBA (Continental Basketball Association.) It was a 1980’s American minor league, something of a precursor to the G League. Albany, New York is an American city and I do not remember if the CBA had any Canadian teams. Not sure where you got that information.
I remember watching the 2010 wcf when during a time out with Phil standing away from the huddle was heard screaming at his team "don't even give him the damn ball!" which was directed at Ron Artest right after he turned the ball over at a crucial point of the game, yet Phil was putting Artest back into the game. Not sure how not letting Artest touch the ball warrants putting him back into the game, but... As a Suns fan I knew he was pissed because Steve Nash and company were sticking it to his team and making him lose his cool, or zen in that moment. That series was close just like most all of the titles that Phil got. He would not have had that success without Michael and Kobe, but he did. The Lakers decided not to bring him back in 2019 when LeBron joined them so apparently Phil was not seen as the zen master anymore by the Lakers.
Maybe this is just me, but I'm always iffy at best with "greatest of all time" in team sports because so much of it comes down to what you have to work with. I mean come on: Act 1, you have Jordan and Pippen, Act 2, you have Shaq (a good chunk of the time) and Kobe. Take just the 2000 season, for example (i.e. the one where Shaq and Kobe won their first NBA title). Can anyone really argue that Phil Jackson did a "better" coaching job than Larry Bird (who coached their Finals opponent, the Indiana Pacers)?
Phil basically always played two NBA level teams. The Bulls team was generally led by Pippen. He distributed the ball on offense and often times defended the other teams best perimeter offensive weapon. And if that didn't work, there was Jordan, a one man offense. So opposing teams could plan and match up well against one but never both. With the Lakers, Kobe was in the Pippen role and with Shaq, another pass the ball and get out of the way offense guy. Later on, Kobe graduated to the Jordan/Shaq role with the Pippen duties passed on to Fisher and Gasol.
Bulls led by Pippen? When was he ever the leader? After the Bull's last dance where did he go? He was considered then as the Alpha player. But could not limit a rising Kobe! Dude, learn your NBA History! 😅
@@freelancer04940 you didn't understand his point. It meant that they have two strategies wherein the first one is executed by having Pippen be the ballhandler and be the center of offense by passing into others making them able to score. If others countered that strategy then Phil would fall back into the other strategy, where he would use Jordan's will to win and make him let loose, scoring so much that it basically renders the plan to stop the Pippen-centric offense meaningless.
@@jrbudoybudoy was he the main focal point of triangle offense? If you mean bringing the ball up, they had point guards, he was the small forward. Their center receives the ball along the free throw area and they ran the triangle.
Pippen, in no way shape or form, ever led the Bulls triangle offense. He literally played next to the greatest scorer in the history of the game and averaged the same amount of assists. did he sometimes bring the ball up the court and make the first pass? Yeah. So did Shaq. That is NOT leading the offense.
The CBA is not the Canadian Basketball Association... It's the Continental Basketball Association. A smaller pro league that preceded the modern day G league.
People who say he had best players ever as main reason for success are missing the point. There are plenty cases in nba of stacked with talent teams not working due to bad tactics or poor chemistry. Really makes u wonder if other coaches couldve made rodman work in the bulls or successfully help Kobe and Pau win those later Laker championships. Theres a good reason Bulls and Lakers weren’t winning till Phil showed up or came back.
@@tonymeinerding7463 the warriors with curry, klay, and KD didnt three peat. The heat with lebron, bosh, wade didnt. The list can probably go on but you get the idea
Rodman was not that wild in the beginning. He had so much leadership in that Pistons team and he was a roleplayer. After the championships He developed into that wild thing. Daly could handle him but that was supposed to from a near father figure.
@@phillipcreed7933 he was an assistant at that time, here’s an quote from Rodman "He (Popovich) hated me, he hated me, he hated my guts because I wasn't a Bible guy," Rodman said on Undeniable with Joe Buck. "They looked at me like I'm the devil. Then I started acting out again because they don't want me here."
The one tactic was long athletic defenders and Jordan on the bulls. Long athletic defenders and Shaq for 3 titles on the lakers Long athletic defenders and Kobe for 2 more with the lakers. Tha's it that's the Tactic. Replace the triangle with anything and he would have still won.
I hope Tex Winter gets credit for this as well. And maybe you could have included the post Lakers, why the triangle didn't work when he went to New York.
Coaches coach and players play. Their success is directly linked to each other. Without one or the other you might have a winning record but you will probably not win championships consecutively. That is why they are referred to as dynasties. The stars only align every so often.
Nobody could stop TEX WINTER. Phil created championship teams from teams that had already been at least to the conference finals It’s also the continental basketball league, not the Canadian basketball league.
Jackson took over the year after the Bulls in 1988 lost Eastern Conference Championship playoffs, on July 10th, 1989. In 1987 Bulls lost Eastern Conference Semi Finals in playoffs. Two years in a row before he coached the Bulls they were in playoffs. He's only coached teams that have had the most talent in NBA. He never took over a team that didn't make playoffs. He never built a team from bottom and made them Champions. I'll give him credit for not screwing up most talented teams.
Pistons were a great team and are probably responsible for creating the drive that pushed the Bulls to their 6 rings. They were the measuring post and once the Bulls got all their ducks in a row, they got humbled too. For my money, this was one of the greatest rivalries in pro sports history.
His ability was to only accept coaching positions that were very talented. His ability was not to screw up teams with the most talent. The teams he coached were the most talented in the NBA at that time. After he left Bulls, he had chances to coach other teams but turn them down. But when extremely talented Lakers came calling....His true talent was not to coach teams without vast talent. Give him credit. He could bring talented teams to NBA titles but he'd didn't create the rosters. The Lakers probaly should've one or two more titles. Unlike Auerbach who created the Celtic rosters. But Auerbach was same as Jackson. He had the most talent. That's why those are the two most successful coaches. I believe that Auerbach is the greatest General Manager of any sport. His creating rosters were unequal. I believe the way to judge a coach in any sport is does the coach improve his teams from year to year. Does a coach take a losing team and make them champions. Like Larry Brown and Bill Parcells.
@@RT-ig5cs the Bulls: three first team all-defensive players. THREE! the best player who ever lived. the GOAT! One of the best two-way players of all time: Scottie Pippin! The best pound-for-pound rebounder who ever played the game: Rodman. Sure, maybe a really bad coach would have failed to win with this team, but he would have had to be really really bad.
@@RT-ig5csidiot who thinks he’s a basketball genius. I think Phil Jackson refused to coach a team because he knew the roster was ass and would look bad
And now we are using this with gilas (philippines) though more modified for this time. By the way our coach, coach Tim Cone was also a student of Tex Winter.
If you want to know the mindfulness system Phil used, read "The Inner Game of Tennis." by Tim Gallwey. Jackson had all of his players read it, as does Steve Kerr and football coach Pete Carroll. The book is short, easy to understand, and can change your life. You don't even have to be a tennis player to get benefit from the book, nor do you have to be a professional athlete.
OMG, similar strategies are used by top football coaches like Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti. Pep is known for his triangles and passing games, while Ancelotti focuses on creating a strong team environment.
@BenSolved false! Zone was implemented to help ball movement to increase perimeter scoring. That's why they added def 3 second rule. Bulls already won 2 3peats and teams ran zones in the 80s-90s.
@@sideshowbobsaget8876 NBA zone defense was banned in the 1940s, and reimplement in 2001-2002 season. Man to man defense cannot handle the triangle with a Dominant Center and SG.
@@Budpediastop reading a rule back. I'm talking about actual game footage of teams running zone. Hubie brown-- they're running what looks like a 2-3 zone. Dick Stockton-- zone in the NBA? Hubie brown-- let's not say the word zone. Both start laughing. Zone was implemented to increase ball movement. Lot's of H.S kids/ one & done players entering the NBA in the 00s Lot's of low iq and fundamental.
he should be considered the greatest. but his name is always followed wirh "he only coached superstars." which is bs because all champions had superstars, with the pistons as exceptions, tho sheed, imo, was a monster
Good content...like most young sports content creators you need to work on nailing the details down (CBA was the CONTINENTAL Basketball Association) but an excellent start.
@starn9 Luka isn't Jordan or Shaq, and Kyrie isn't Kobe or Pippen. Embiid never made a Conf Finals, Maxey?🤣 🤣 🤣 Jordan had the provety Bulls in the 89-ECF taking the Champs to six games before a rookie Phil took over. Shaq already made the Finals in Orlando and the Conf Final with the Lakers before Phil. Phil was put into perfect situations. Undeniable. This would be like giving Spo Joker and Curry after LeBron. LeBron couldn't deliver Spo a 3peat
Phil always made sure his situation included the best players in the league. Before he went to the Lakers, he was offered the Nets job and turned it down. When he went to NY, he was an unmitigated disaster. So please spare me all of this.
First of all! Phil played with a Great Knicks Team in the "70's" they had great shooting stars on that team! I still believe the greatest basketball playoff game was Game 7 Knicks vs Baltimore win Willis Reed came on the floor to play even though Willis Reed was taped up like a mummy! Phil was not even a starter! He won the 6th man award that year playing off the bench! Tex Winter's triangle offense and a great defense! But Phil's ability to convince Michael Jordan or the Star Player to trust other players around them was the difference! Just like the Bulls first Championship! When Phil asked Jordan in the huddle during a time out in a close game! "Michael who's open? Michael who's open? Jordan finally says Paxton! Well then get the ball to John! And Paxton killed them with 3's! Phil Jackson's ability to communicate to fellow basketball players stems from Phil being an extra player that played from the bench on a Great New York Knicks Team! When the NBA Game was a more physical game with better talent because there were fewer teams! And the talent that sat on the bench back then! would be starters today! And no 3 point shooting, zone defenses, no carrying the basketball like today and only a step & a half to the rim! Now it's two and a half steps! Sometimes 3! Phil is a Great Coach that uses Tex Winters Triangle Offensive to win 11 Championships! Bill Russell Won 11 too! But played as a player in all but 2! Where he was A Player/Coach!
True but we've all seen those memes of guys with the most expensive gear in any sport/game/activity who can't use it... the best tools are wasted on those who don't know how to maximize them! I feel 11 rings in 20 is maximizing and I doubt another coach fuses strategy with the mental rigor and training required for that accomplishment on 4 different teams (2 x Bulls threepeats, 1 x Lakers threepeat, and 1 x Lakers repeat)
Doesn’t every coach have access to superstars at some point? It’s up to them to make them win, and win multiple times. Honestly, a really stupid argument.
Being able to utilize MJ and Shaq in their primes requires a leadership that only Phil Jackson can pull off. I can't see any other coach who can manage them and squeeze out all of their potential to win championships consistently.
I wonder how long after Jordan saw Pippen did he say "I know we can beat the Pistons." Was it soon as he saw him. During the season. When they beat them...
not going to take much away, but definitely helped that he always had the best players of his generation. got MJ with a nice defensive supportive cast to start. replaced MJ with Shaq and Kobe.
i have to give Phil his credit.... but....he coached Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'NEAL, Kobe Bryant... Scottie Pippen , Dennis Rodman... Horace Grant... it's a lot easier to win championships when you have a full roster of the best players ever...
It wasn't tactics that made Phil great, he knew how to get the best out of his players. He understood the concept of treating people the way he knew they wanted to be treated. He was an expert in human relations, and that's how he managed all of those egos for full seasons and playoffs, and did so successfully.
That, and he was a master strategist. Phil always knew what tweaks he needed to make his team better. He wanted Ron Harper, known for his scoring, to be a defensive roleplayer because of his size and agility. He wanted Rodman because he knew that Rodman had the physicality and fearlessness to go head to head with a guy like Shaq, for example, who dominated them in the playoffs just before acquiring Rodman.
How does a rapist want to be treated? Probably like he did nothing wrong and his crime swept under the rug. It’s ok Kobe’s karma got him back and all is well.
@@alexlarsen2464Kobe was not a rapist.
@@mastermace7770 Maybe...Maybe not. We'll never know.
He was the 2nd best shooting guard ever.
And he was an asshole.
And so did Chuck Daly!!
I mean he also had the best player ever on 6 of his teams and the most dominant player ever on 3 more with then prime kobe for 2.....Point is dude had some fucking talent on his rosters as well.
Phil understood how to reign in his stars and reach out to them. Knowing how to adapt to different personalities is a very unique leadership quality that even most the great coaches didn’t have.
Phil knew he had the perfect set up that no other coach in NBA history has ever had.
How do you know if they have it or not?
They didn't have the chance to coach those bulls and lakers teams
@user-vb2bt9kh1p popovich had Rodman who he demonized and ran out of San Antonio. Phil took him worked with him and rest is history. If not for Phil taking him in Rodman would’ve bounced team to team and eventually out of league.
U mean he just had the best stars lol ?! Reigned them in huh?
@DevandJo another dense comment. All great coaches who won coached great players. That is dumbest detraction yet. Great players come with huge egos and difficult personalities. He managed to coach Shaq and Kobe to a threepeat despite fact they had the locker room divided and hated eachother. B Shaw who was on team said that Phil coached both Shaq and Kobe differently. You take him out the equation that team would implode and split up right away.
In the Philippines we have a Coach named Tim Cone who runs the triangle as well in our local league, the PBA (2nd oldest basketball league next to the NBA). Cone has been the most winngest coach in the history of the league and was credited for the only 2 Grandslam in the league (grandslam is when you win championship in all 3 conferences in one season). He is the current head coach of Gilas (Philippines' national team) that defeated Latvia (world number 6) on their home court last Olympic Qualifying Tournament.
thank you for sharing Coach Tim’s accomplishments
That's amazing! Great coaching!
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Nahhhh! That league plays 3 titles each year. It's a duopolize league as well. Past 12 yrs Tim cone is under a San mig corp which pretty much owns that league. His only valid titles is with Alaska. Yes he does the triangle, but with out his resources to get star players from low end teams and refs he aint gonna win more than what he got with Alaska.
13 finals in 20 years is crazy. Pure dominance.
and out of that 13, he got 11 (3 3peats and 1 back to back)
@@jr0325823 3peats
In fairness he had the best player in the league every time he coached with a young sidekick reaching their prime. I think that's were the dominance comes from.
@@jr032582three 3-peats
@@sideshowbobsaget8876 God. People like you are insufferable.
You could also include Steve Kerr who based his coaching off of what Phil Jackson did and then went to the finals 5 years in a row and almost 3-peated again.
warriors offense is more spurs than it is Triangle offense
@@jaspermorant2352oh buddy, the triangle offense is basically the blueprint for the motion offense. Constant screens, passing and moving without the ball. Kerr just extended it to the three point line because he had two of the best shooters in his hands.
@@DKtrek21No
@@DKtrek21jordan/pippen/curry/thompson=triangle offense or whatever you decide to call it
Doesn't work with regular teams
Phil was just lucky all his carrier
@@שריאללרר Well, the vid told us that you need high basketball IQ. Not to throw shade on players but it's not a common thing.
One of his biggest criticisms is that he was working with the greatest players of all time, but those critics forget that, without him, they most likely wouldn't have been the greatest players of all time in the first place, he knew how to MAXIMIZE those players to their full potential.
he also coached against great teams with great players. Phil got the best out of great teams. As far as the criticism, no coach wins championships (especially more than one) with teams that aren't talented
In a sense yes, in team accomplishments but individually MJ's numbers dropped significantly. The price of being under the triangle offense and ultimately, the price of winning. Not bad.
I think the most underrated thing about Phil is the mentally he puts to his players, i think thats really has a great impact
He was incredible at keeping a locker room focused and together
Go back to the Playing days of Jackson. He played on a great team, with a great coach, a great culture, and great players. Clyde Frazier, Earl Monroe, Dave Debusschere, Bill Bradley, Willis Reed. Also a cast of supporting players like Phil. (Big rebounder, passer, defensive specialist. Had the nastiest elbows in the league). Phil had his model for a championship team and culture in his mind already. Red Holtzman.
Very well made and entertaining video about Phil Jackson.
This is all true, I'd like to add the fact that Jerry Krause fired Doug Collins because Collins refused to install the Triangle offense, he hired Phil to run it. Jordan hated it in the beginning because his averages dipped but the team was on the up. Jordan was more committed to the triangle offense than Kobe Bryant.
Kind of true. Kobe embraced the Triangle. Jordan was definitely against the Triangle at first but when PJ convinced Jordan that his scoring would remain the same, that is when Jordan embraced the Triangle.
Phil didn't invent the Triangle.
He's a poser. Won mainly because of star talent, did nothing with lesser rosters.
@@kentstallard6512 Coaches win with star talent? Wow, what a revelation. Most coaches don't go to 13 finals and win 11 of them though.
@@kennethrobinson6738 Really? Because the way I remember it is, wasn't Kobe playing out of the triangle and it cost them playoff games. The entire 2004 finals against the Pistons, the Suns series in 2007 Phil called him out that he needed to pass the ball more. The entire 2006 year he never played in the Triangle, he was iso all year..So "embraced" I don't remember it that way. I do remember him committing to it once they got Gasol, he changed his number to 24, and he was winning again. That's just what I remember.
Jordan, he would step out of the triangle in the 4th quarter when they needed shots. If they were ahead he played within the system, he ate at the line a lot and developed a killer jump shot. He went from averaging around 35 a game to like 30 and he was ok with it if they were winning and they were.
Lastly, it's a boring system. I actually think and this is my opinion they could have put both players in any system and they would win championships. But if they just played ISO ball all game I don't believe they'd ever win anything.
@@colinforsecs3393I think Phil literally said Kobe ran it the best and you can’t run the triangle with a G League team with players who not only don’t belong in the NBA but are actually starting
2004 Finals Kobe could have avg 30PPG they still lose Pistons would have swept them if not for Kobe’s game 2 heroics
I'm reminded of a line from House M.D. where House is described as someone you manage rather than control. Phil managed his players.
He didn't dominate, pull rank, attack, or beg. He worked with each player individually but in such a way as to shape them, so they all fit together into a championship team. It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty damn close.
Somehow Jackson managed and harnessed his superstars so well, and this is no easy skill
When Phil Jackson coached the Albany Patroons, they were in the Continental Basketball Association, not Canadian. In 1999, Isiah Thomas acquired the CBA.
Fun fact: One of Tex Winter's students is Coach Tim Cone of the PBA. He has 21 Championships to date and is the owner of 2 Grandslam (3peat).
Well... having the GOAT and the best duo ever on the team might have to do something with the winning
Kyrie wouldve clicked with the Zen master
Actually really fun to imagine lmao
Albany Patroons were not a Canadian basketball team. They were in a league called the CBA (Continental Basketball Association.) It was a 1980’s American minor league, something of a precursor to the G League. Albany, New York is an American city and I do not remember if the CBA had any Canadian teams. Not sure where you got that information.
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I remember watching the 2010 wcf when during a time out with Phil standing away from the huddle was heard screaming at his team "don't even give him the damn ball!" which was directed at Ron Artest right after he turned the ball over at a crucial point of the game, yet Phil was putting Artest back into the game. Not sure how not letting Artest touch the ball warrants putting him back into the game, but...
As a Suns fan I knew he was pissed because Steve Nash and company were sticking it to his team and making him lose his cool, or zen in that moment.
That series was close just like most all of the titles that Phil got.
He would not have had that success without Michael and Kobe, but he did.
The Lakers decided not to bring him back in 2019 when LeBron joined them so apparently Phil was not seen as the zen master anymore by the Lakers.
Its crazy that Jordan put up those scoring numbers in a slower paced nba where less points were scored. Still today nobody can score at that clip
Plus it's under the triangle. Distribution of everything from points to assists.
Imagine if Kobe fully trusted Phil.
Tex Winters was his assistant
That’s why those teams won titles
Maybe this is just me, but I'm always iffy at best with "greatest of all time" in team sports because so much of it comes down to what you have to work with. I mean come on: Act 1, you have Jordan and Pippen, Act 2, you have Shaq (a good chunk of the time) and Kobe. Take just the 2000 season, for example (i.e. the one where Shaq and Kobe won their first NBA title). Can anyone really argue that Phil Jackson did a "better" coaching job than Larry Bird (who coached their Finals opponent, the Indiana Pacers)?
Phil basically always played two NBA level teams. The Bulls team was generally led by Pippen. He distributed the ball on offense and often times defended the other teams best perimeter offensive weapon. And if that didn't work, there was Jordan, a one man offense. So opposing teams could plan and match up well against one but never both. With the Lakers, Kobe was in the Pippen role and with Shaq, another pass the ball and get out of the way offense guy. Later on, Kobe graduated to the Jordan/Shaq role with the Pippen duties passed on to Fisher and Gasol.
Bulls led by Pippen? When was he ever the leader?
After the Bull's last dance where did he go?
He was considered then as the Alpha player. But could not limit a rising Kobe!
Dude, learn your NBA History! 😅
@@freelancer04940 you didn't understand his point. It meant that they have two strategies wherein the first one is executed by having Pippen be the ballhandler and be the center of offense by passing into others making them able to score. If others countered that strategy then Phil would fall back into the other strategy, where he would use Jordan's will to win and make him let loose, scoring so much that it basically renders the plan to stop the Pippen-centric offense meaningless.
@@jrbudoybudoy was he the main focal point of triangle offense? If you mean bringing the ball up, they had point guards, he was the small forward. Their center receives the ball along the free throw area and they ran the triangle.
@@jrbudoybudoy This guy gets it.
Pippen, in no way shape or form, ever led the Bulls triangle offense. He literally played next to the greatest scorer in the history of the game and averaged the same amount of assists. did he sometimes bring the ball up the court and make the first pass? Yeah. So did Shaq. That is NOT leading the offense.
The CBA is not the Canadian Basketball Association... It's the Continental Basketball Association. A smaller pro league that preceded the modern day G league.
Impressive 1st video, giving me great ideas for soccer videos
Thanks a lot! Hope to inspire in any way possible. Good luck on your journey!
@@GOATAuthority appreciated bro
Tactics alone does not cut it you must have great players to execute these plays
Popovich is the NBA's greatest coach, actually.
This is arguably correct, actually.
Phil seem like the type coach players hang out with before and after practices and games.
Great video bro!
People who say he had best players ever as main reason for success are missing the point. There are plenty cases in nba of stacked with talent teams not working due to bad tactics or poor chemistry. Really makes u wonder if other coaches couldve made rodman work in the bulls or successfully help Kobe and Pau win those later Laker championships. Theres a good reason Bulls and Lakers weren’t winning till Phil showed up or came back.
Plenty of team might have been stacked with talent and didn't win but that stacked talent didn't include a prime MJ and Scotty or Prime Kobe and Shaq!
@@tonymeinerding7463 the warriors with curry, klay, and KD didnt three peat. The heat with lebron, bosh, wade didnt. The list can probably go on but you get the idea
Hey man. Don't stop doing great content!
Salute to general of coaching "Phil GOAT Jackson"
amazing channel man, i thought you had millions of subscribers. all the glaze and baby oil gl man. Ill be a great coach one day in some sport!
You only need to know he could handle Rodman, Popp don’t. That’s why I would prefer Phil over Popp.
Credit goes to Chuck Daly. He figured it out first. You just let him be. You dont have to handle Rodman.
Rodman was not that wild in the beginning. He had so much leadership in that Pistons team and he was a roleplayer. After the championships He developed into that wild thing. Daly could handle him but that was supposed to from a near father figure.
he send steve kerr to drink all night with rodman in atlantic city this is true..there are great players but few great coaches
Popp didn’t coach Rodman in 94-95
@@phillipcreed7933 he was an assistant at that time, here’s an quote from Rodman "He (Popovich) hated me, he hated me, he hated my guts because I wasn't a Bible guy," Rodman said on Undeniable with Joe Buck. "They looked at me like I'm the devil. Then I started acting out again because they don't want me here."
The one tactic was long athletic defenders and Jordan on the bulls. Long athletic defenders and Shaq for 3 titles on the lakers Long athletic defenders and Kobe for 2 more with the lakers. Tha's it that's the Tactic. Replace the triangle with anything and he would have still won.
Phil Jackson is the GOAT coach.
Popovic is the GOAT of TANKING!
Awesome first video! looking forward to more.
Nice Video! Make also about players! Not only coaches... and GMs that make difference!
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Thank you for pointing out how GOAT Phil Jackson is
I hope Tex Winter gets credit for this as well.
And maybe you could have included the post Lakers, why the triangle didn't work when he went to New York.
Coaches coach and players play. Their success is directly linked to each other. Without one or the other you might have a winning record but you will probably not win championships consecutively. That is why they are referred to as dynasties. The stars only align every so often.
In 1984, at this time, Continental Basketball Association (CBA) was a usa minor basketball league ... not Canada...
Nobody could stop TEX WINTER. Phil created championship teams from teams that had already been at least to the conference finals
It’s also the continental basketball league, not the Canadian basketball league.
TEX WINTER was the key to it all
Jackson took over the year after the Bulls in 1988 lost Eastern Conference Championship playoffs, on July 10th, 1989. In 1987 Bulls lost Eastern Conference Semi Finals in playoffs. Two years in a row before he coached the Bulls they were in playoffs. He's only coached teams that have had the most talent in NBA. He never took over a team that didn't make playoffs. He never built a team from bottom and made them Champions. I'll give him credit for not screwing up most talented teams.
The GOAT
Phil Jack is 1-3 vs Pistons in ecf and finals. Always gets a chuckle out of me.
Pistons were a great team and are probably responsible for creating the drive that pushed the Bulls to their 6 rings. They were the measuring post and once the Bulls got all their ducks in a row, they got humbled too. For my money, this was one of the greatest rivalries in pro sports history.
A decade and a half later, Jackson’s Lakers were thoroughly demolished by Larry Brown and the Pistons. But this video skips all that.
@@danielkrueger3827Because Kobe went rogue and tried to do everything himself in that series, but you skipped that
His ability was to only accept coaching positions that were very talented. His ability was not to screw up teams with the most talent. The teams he coached were the most talented in the NBA at that time. After he left Bulls, he had chances to coach other teams but turn them down. But when extremely talented Lakers came calling....His true talent was not to coach teams without vast talent. Give him credit. He could bring talented teams to NBA titles but he'd didn't create the rosters. The Lakers probaly should've one or two more titles. Unlike Auerbach who created the Celtic rosters. But Auerbach was same as Jackson. He had the most talent. That's why those are the two most successful coaches. I believe that Auerbach is the greatest General Manager of any sport. His creating rosters were unequal.
I believe the way to judge a coach in any sport is does the coach improve his teams from year to year. Does a coach take a losing team and make them champions. Like Larry Brown and Bill Parcells.
Bulls were a losing team when Jackson started as head coach. Then he took over, and they won championships. So what's your point?
Phil Jackson Undefeated as the Bulls head coach because of MJ and as the Lakers head coach he had amazing championship success as well
He was losing for YEARS before the 91 season.
Coach Jackson just knew how to balance the ego of everyone, including his own.
Phil was a master. He tamed Rodman and put him to good use, when other teams passed up on Rodman..
Having the best players in NBA helps a lot too
Phil literally had a Three peat of Three peats ! And later a repeat !! People don't realize how crazy successful that is !!
Jackson's secret strategy: have two of the best players in the world on your team.
Naive casual
@@RT-ig5cs the Bulls: three first team all-defensive players. THREE! the best player who ever lived. the GOAT! One of the best two-way players of all time: Scottie Pippin! The best pound-for-pound rebounder who ever played the game: Rodman. Sure, maybe a really bad coach would have failed to win with this team, but he would have had to be really really bad.
@@RT-ig5csidiot who thinks he’s a basketball genius. I think Phil Jackson refused to coach a team because he knew the roster was ass and would look bad
Phil Jackson in NBA reminds us a lot to Pep Guardiola in Manchester City.
The Warriors post split action is an automatic out of the Triangle, Kerr just stretched it out to beyond the three point line.
Great content🎉
Thank you!
Am I crazy or is this Virkayu's alt account you sound so similar to that content creator for league of legends
And now we are using this with gilas (philippines) though more modified for this time. By the way our coach, coach Tim Cone was also a student of Tex Winter.
If you want to know the mindfulness system Phil used, read "The Inner Game of Tennis." by Tim Gallwey. Jackson had all of his players read it, as does Steve Kerr and football coach Pete Carroll. The book is short, easy to understand, and can change your life. You don't even have to be a tennis player to get benefit from the book, nor do you have to be a professional athlete.
It wasn't just the triangle. Those Bulls and Lakers team got a Dominant Big Man surround by players who are good defenders that can shoot 3s well.
the tactic: give the ball to MJ/kobe/shaq 😅
The secret tactic of giving Jordan the ball.
Genius
Phil Jackson The real GOAT
Great video bro
OMG, similar strategies are used by top football coaches like Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti. Pep is known for his triangles and passing games, while Ancelotti focuses on creating a strong team environment.
The Triangle is why the NBA implemented Zone defense.
No it isn't 😂😂😂
@@sideshowbobsaget8876 Shaq and Kobe In the triangle was unstoppable. The only way to stop it was Zone!
@BenSolved false! Zone was implemented to help ball movement to increase perimeter scoring. That's why they added def 3 second rule. Bulls already won 2 3peats and teams ran zones in the 80s-90s.
@@sideshowbobsaget8876 NBA zone defense was banned in the 1940s, and reimplement in 2001-2002 season. Man to man defense cannot handle the triangle with a Dominant Center and SG.
@@Budpediastop reading a rule back. I'm talking about actual game footage of teams running zone. Hubie brown-- they're running what looks like a 2-3 zone. Dick Stockton-- zone in the NBA? Hubie brown-- let's not say the word zone. Both start laughing. Zone was implemented to increase ball movement. Lot's of H.S kids/ one & done players entering the NBA in the 00s Lot's of low iq and fundamental.
sounds like Virkayu LOL
This is him right?
Phil Jackson, Greg Popovic, Larry Brown, Red Auerbach and Pat Riley had different coaching styles that emphasized team basketball in a league of egos.
he should be considered the greatest. but his name is always followed wirh "he only coached superstars." which is bs because all champions had superstars, with the pistons as exceptions, tho sheed, imo, was a monster
The Goat of coaches
Can we give enough credit also to the Tex Winter who was the maestro of the Triangle Offense? RIP Tex
Tex Winters
Yea its Tex Winter.
Great Video man
Good content...like most young sports content creators you need to work on nailing the details down (CBA was the CONTINENTAL Basketball Association) but an excellent start.
well done video
Well, he also had some of the greatest if not the greatest Players on his team
Phil: “do you want to be remembered for individual accolades or championships?”
MJ: “Both”
The secret is joining teams that were in the Conf Finals with the best player in the world and a young sidekick reaching their prime😂😂
That's what I'm saying too! Him and Steve Kerr are just lucky to have great players
if it were that easy luka and kyrie would have had a ring already and embiid and maxey would have a ring, sabonis and dFox would have a ring
@@starn9Luke and kyrie just got started
@@onlybetasgetoffendedbystri8030 so you gonna just ignore the other 4 players i mentioned? lol
@starn9 Luka isn't Jordan or Shaq, and Kyrie isn't Kobe or Pippen. Embiid never made a Conf Finals, Maxey?🤣 🤣 🤣 Jordan had the provety Bulls in the 89-ECF taking the Champs to six games before a rookie Phil took over. Shaq already made the Finals in Orlando and the Conf Final with the Lakers before Phil. Phil was put into perfect situations. Undeniable. This would be like giving Spo Joker and Curry after LeBron. LeBron couldn't deliver Spo a 3peat
Great video
He also had Michael jordan and Scottie pippen though. That was clearly the best roster in the nba regardless of the system
Phil always made sure his situation included the best players in the league. Before he went to the Lakers, he was offered the Nets job and turned it down. When he went to NY, he was an unmitigated disaster. So please spare me all of this.
It always works the best when it’s fresh and new maybe a second time never the third
He went to the finals 10 out of the first 15 years he was a Head coach.
Truly goat'coach!!!
First of all! Phil played with a Great Knicks Team in the "70's" they had great shooting stars on that team! I still believe the greatest basketball playoff game was Game 7 Knicks vs Baltimore win Willis Reed came on the floor to play even though Willis Reed was taped up like a mummy! Phil was not even a starter! He won the 6th man award that year playing off the bench! Tex Winter's triangle offense and a great defense! But Phil's ability to convince Michael Jordan or the Star Player to trust other players around them was the difference! Just like the Bulls first Championship! When Phil asked Jordan in the huddle during a time out in a close game! "Michael who's open? Michael who's open? Jordan finally says Paxton! Well then get the ball to John! And Paxton killed them with 3's!
Phil Jackson's ability to communicate to fellow basketball players stems from Phil being an extra player that played from the bench on a Great New York Knicks Team! When the NBA Game was a more physical game with better talent because there were fewer teams! And the talent that sat on the bench back then! would be starters today! And no 3 point shooting, zone defenses, no carrying the basketball like today and only a step & a half to the rim! Now it's two and a half steps! Sometimes 3! Phil is a Great Coach that uses Tex Winters Triangle Offensive to win 11 Championships! Bill Russell Won 11 too! But played as a player in all but 2! Where he was A Player/Coach!
This should be a 2 minute video, not 20. Tex Winter created the Triangle, Phil used it, Bulls and Lakers had the right personnel to implement it.
Thank you. 😊
Jackson is SOOOO overrated.
And Jackson had the human relations skills to be a good leader and not have all the egos tear everything apart.
Tex Winter didn't invent the triangle either. His college Coach did. Alex Hannum used the triangle before Tex anyways
@@excessivelysalty_81 True. That was his real skill.
He understands egomaniacs because he IS ONE.
It doesn't hurt having 4 of the best players that ever did it in Michael, Scottie, Kobe and Shaq.
No doubt, but they still had to trust Phil and buy into his philosophy.
True but we've all seen those memes of guys with the most expensive gear in any sport/game/activity who can't use it... the best tools are wasted on those who don't know how to maximize them! I feel 11 rings in 20 is maximizing and I doubt another coach fuses strategy with the mental rigor and training required for that accomplishment on 4 different teams (2 x Bulls threepeats, 1 x Lakers threepeat, and 1 x Lakers repeat)
Doesn’t every coach have access to superstars at some point? It’s up to them to make them win, and win multiple times. Honestly, a really stupid argument.
great video, subbed
8:02 Carlos boozer, joachim noah, Derrick rose, i don't think those guys played triangle offense... I might be wrong, but i doubt it...😅
Being able to utilize MJ and Shaq in their primes requires a leadership that only Phil Jackson can pull off. I can't see any other coach who can manage them and squeeze out all of their potential to win championships consistently.
I wonder how long after Jordan saw Pippen did he say "I know we can beat the Pistons." Was it soon as he saw him. During the season. When they beat them...
2:46 4:27 “the Zen máster, it’s all about the team”
not going to take much away, but definitely helped that he always had the best players of his generation. got MJ with a nice defensive supportive cast to start. replaced MJ with Shaq and Kobe.
I mean, Tex Winter deserves a shit ton of credit for Phil's successes.
i have to give Phil his credit.... but....he coached Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'NEAL, Kobe Bryant... Scottie Pippen , Dennis Rodman... Horace Grant... it's a lot easier to win championships when you have a full roster of the best players ever...
Helps when you have three of the best players in league history.
His weakness is that he doesnt do double teaming. 2003 Duncan, 2011 Nowitzki figured that out.