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Wind in the willow, blindfold leading exercises, role playing- these are all great team building exercises you can practice out of a book, but if these ideas seem a little like camp, well, there is some truth to that. Camp does revolve a lot around tea…

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Say what you want about Phil Jackson, but if you actually watch his teams play he is far far less stict about his style than Brown has ever been. Or at least since Brown’s Kansas days.

Jackson used a bastardized triangle with Jordan. He played a fairly strict triangle with Shaq. And now THIS laker team basically doesn’t play much of one at all. There is some motion to it, but it hardly resembles anything like the Chicago or Shaq days.

The point is that Phil would probably love to play a traditional triangle, however he doesn’t have the people to do it. So instead of making Chris Mihm the teams triggerman he allows the ball to go where it needs to as many times as it needs to to win games (read: Bryant, Kobe)

Brown didn’t do this forever and only started to think about trying something new once the team had tuned him out.

Does Thomas get blame for bringing in the wrong coach? Yes. It was a desperation hire and any clear thinking Knick fan saw that from moment one. We just all prayed Brown was so good he could take ANY group and make it win.

However, I think it’s a reasonable expectation that your employee work with the tools you give him in the best way possible. Brown doesn’t do that and the only question is if he isn’t doing it because:

A) He forgot how to coach

b) He doesn’t care to because he has an ego to stroke and this needs to be a “players failure”

C) Because you aren’t his boss….he’s yours and he wants Dolans ear

Phil Jackson has a lot more to work with, starting with one of the two or three best players on the planet in Kobe Bryant. Put Kobe or Dwayne Wade or LeBron or some other elite superstar on this team and Larry Brown would suddenly look a lot “smarter.” Our marquee player is a one-dimensional point guard who doesn’t defend, lacks heart and probably isn’t one of the top 40 players in the league.

Phil Jackson is doing the same thing Larry Brown is doing– he is coaching the exact same way he has his whole career. Jackson has way more to work with than Brown, and quite frankly, the Lakers still aren’t all that great. He has Michael Jordan Freaking Junior over there, having a career season no less, and they’re still a .500 team that will get run out of the playoffs early.

I would say that the opposite is true: Brown is more interested in building the right way than in winning (a few more games) the wrong way. ”

I think both those statements contain elements of truth. He is interested in winning, but only his way, and he is interested in building, but only his way. Basically its all his way – he is probably more of an egomaniac than Steph.

Its interesting to contrast Brown’s season with Phil Jackson’s. Whilst Phil Jax proved his coaching is flexible enough to cater to his team’s strengths (i.e. Kobe), Larry Brown has proven his ego is so large that he is willing to tank a season to prove his “right way” is best. If they win, its all him, if they lose, its because the players cant play “the right way”.

Honestly, who doesnt think that if JC, Starbury, Q-Rich/Lee, AD/Frye, Curry/James were playing (forget about all the trades) under a less restrictive coach the offensive talents would win us at least 33 games? Last season was much better, with a basically worse roster.

I hate Larry Brown.

I would say that the opposite is true: Brown is more interested in building the right way than in winning (a few more games) the wrong way.

Brown was the wrong fit for this team, but as I have said before, you could bring in any coach in NBA history and you’d still have a team made up mostly of point guards who play lousy defense. If Isiah had brought in Phil Jackson or whomever else, we would still be having this same discussion.