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Phil Jackson pictured with ex-girlfriend Jeanie Buss.
Robert Horry is without doubt one of the most adorned gamers within the NBA.
The person gained seven championships with the Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs.
Showing on the Scoop B Radio Podcast, Horry’s former Lakers teammate, John Celestand informed me that Horry and Phil Jackson didn't get alongside immediately throughout their early days in Los Angeles. “Properly, for me it wasn’t any transition in any respect as a result of I used to be a rookie,” he informed me.
“I’m coming in and I’m taking part in with Phil Jackson. For the remainder of the fellows… and bear in mind I’m a rookie, so I’m not there with them earlier than once they have been taking part in for Del Harris. You understand, Dennis Rodman was taking part in on the crew a 12 months earlier than and keep in mind that wasn’t the very best Dennis Rodman of his profession when he performed for the Lakers. I used to be listening to how dysfunctional the locker room was, however I feel the adjustment was that Phil was not as a lot as a hands-on coach as he was a supervisor and his entire factor was form of breaking all the pieces again down and getting us to discover ways to play basketball and to be one as a crew. And also you gotta bear in mind now, he’s bringing an entire new offense. So for me, it put me on an equal footing with everyone else as a result of I didn’t have to come back in and be taught the offense that all of them knew. We have been all studying the identical factor collectively and by the way in which, I assumed I used to be AHEAD of them now that I give it some thought as a result of, I performed within the Summer time League and we realized the Triangle Offense then.”
Celestand was the Lakers’ 30th choose within the 1999 NBA Draft and was a member of the Lakers’ 1999–2000 championship crew. He remembers the early days of studying the Triangle Offense being attention-grabbing. “A number of these guys – Kobe Bryant, Derek Fisher, Shaq…they’re simply studying it proper in coaching camp,” stated Celestand.
“I feel I had a leg up from that standpoint. Nevertheless it was extra of getting used to the way in which Phil coached, getting used to the – he was a Zen Buddhist; so we did numerous meditation. He was introducing all of these issues outdoors of basketball numerous guys – particularly macho guys like ourselves, athletes who had by no means completed this earlier than; now that is earlier than yoga and all these items grew to become the craze. You understand, that is ’99! We’re like, ’ So what are you speaking about we meditating? Speaking about doing yoga? What are you speaking about burning incense within the locker room? What the hell does that must do with basketball?.. So it’s all these items that we’re determining with Phil and giving us books to learn. These sort of issues.”
That’s the place Robert Horry is available in.
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“I feel that we have been all making an attempt to determine it out and you recognize, and there have been guys that have been form of like – I bear in mind Robert Horry was on the crew and most of us have been in awe of Phil Jackson, as a result of right here you might be and you recognize, you play for Phil Jackson,” recounted Celestand.
“He coached Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen proper? And I bear in mind there was a little bit tug of warfare with Robert Horry as a result of Horry was like, “I gained two championships. I acquired two rings. I understand how to win. So I don’t NEED to hear!”… in order that was an attention-grabbing dynamic for me as a result of I used to be like wow, there’s a little bit tug of warfare there like ‘I don’t sweat you.’ – That they had some friction at first of the season they usually labored it out, you recognize? So, it was rather a lot occurring.”
To Horry’s credit score, he thinks an excessive amount of Phil Jackson. Once I requested him how he compares Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich he was candid.
“I put Phil proper there; tied for second with Pop,” Robert Horry informed Scoop B Radio.
“Him and Pop have been so related in the truth that they confused protection they usually appreciated working their methods to a tee. Although Phil had extra athletic guys the place he might enterprise off from working his system, Pop had a bunch of robots that may run that system and lull you to sleep and the subsequent factor you recognize, they acquired a bucket. Phil after all had Kobe and MJ who might create their very own pictures and that made his system rather a lot higher.”
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