{"id":2744,"date":"2016-11-29T09:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2016-11-29T09:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:40:22","slug":"thank-phil-jackson-knicks-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/11\/29\/thank-phil-jackson-knicks-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank Phil Jackson for the Knicks Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phil Jackson<\/a><\/strong> made it clear he will not use his opt-out contract option. He will stay with the New York Knicks<\/strong> for the remainder of the season. It is the\u00a0Philidelphia 76ers<\/strong>\u00a0 and Joel<\/strong> Embiid<\/strong> who are getting all the attention\u00a0as “The Process”; although, originally\u00a0that\u00a0title goes to\u00a0Phil Jackson.<\/p>\n

Thank Phil Jackson for the Knicks Success<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The constant scrutiny of New York fans, the city, and the media have not deterred Jackson. He keeps the course and preaches\u00a0trusting the process. Much like Donnie Walsh<\/strong>, Phil Jackson inherited the team’s problems. He didn’t make them.\u00a0In the beginning, the trades he made ensured the future of the New York\u00a0Knicks and sought to regain the flexibilty the team had lost. Jackson makes the smart and shrewd moves with little bargaining chips. Meanwhile, the media and fans desired more bang for each trade. He opened up the cap space, drafted a franchise 7-footer, retained Carmelo Anthony<\/a><\/strong> and his loyalty, and built a supporting team around them. This is a victory.<\/p>\n

Phil Jackson Comes with Flaws, but He is Not Obsessed with the Triangle<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Knicks and New York fans\u00a0should take Phil Jackson. All eleven\u00a0championship rings or nothing at all. There have been a total of four winning seasons in the last 16 years for the Knicks. Jackson brings dinners with Carmelo Anthony.\u00a0At the same time, the rants and the\u00a0control freak nature of Jackson are here. The Knicks want something different. They are embracing something different.\u00a0Change is hard.\u00a0However,\u00a0it also comes with the success. He brings Derrick Rose<\/a><\/strong>. He hires Jeff Hornacek<\/a><\/strong>. The media likes to write him as obsessed with a Triangle team but in his own words,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt becomes an ownership,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t care about the triangle. I care about systematically playing basketball. If the spacing isn\u2019t right, if guys are standing on top of each other, if there aren\u2019t lanes to be provided, or rebounders available to offensively rebound the ball, or we don\u2019t have defensive balance when a shot goes up, all of these things are fundamental basketball.<\/div>\n

Basketball is something Phil Jackson knows well. Knicks trust that reputation and so should the Knick fans. Blame Phil Jackson? Not a smart choice.<\/p>\n

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\nNEW YORK, NY – MARCH 18: Phil Jackson attends New York Knicks press conference announcing him as team President at Madison Square Garden on March 18, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney\/WireImage)<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instead of criticizing him, Knicks fans should thank Phil Jackson for what he has brought to the franchise, building a team around Carmelo Anthony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,62],"tags":[65,67,95,222,96,58,221],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knicks","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-derrick-rose","tag-jeff-hornacek","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-phil-jackson"],"modified_by":"Harrison Marcus","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}