Thursday, June 11, 2009

Who Is Alonzo Mourning?

First of all, I love Alonzo Mourning, but what is he thinking when calling out Phil Jackson? Phil Jackson has only won 9 NBA titles to ZO's 1 NBA title has a back up center for the Heat. I know ZO played for Stan Van Gundy and uber rival of Phil Jackson Pat Riley, but to say Phil isn't coaching at all is just ridiculous. Kobe is certainly leading and willing his team to victory, but that's just Phil's style. He wants his players to be held accountable during the game. That's the whole point of the triangle offense. The offense gives you options and makes the players read and react. Phil is a facilitator on the bench and his responsibility is to keep the balance of emotions and draw up plays. For ZO to question this is just ridiculous. Just because the Bulls dominated your Heat teams, it doesn't give you the right to call out arguably the greatest coach in NBA history. To say all Phil does is call timeouts really is comical. Phil doesn't need to be screaming up and down after every play, wiping the sweat off of his head like your boy Stan Van Gundy. So enjoy the finals like the rest of us ZO and leave the coaching to great ones.

1 comments:

Brandon said...

I must have missed what Zo said. Even tho he is a total douche, Phil is a great coach with a great system and you really can't say otherwise. He's definitely a top 3 coach in league history behind Mike D'antoni and Paul Westphal.

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