Phil Jackson
Phil Jackson
Philip Douglas "Phil" Jacksonis an American professional basketball executive, former coach and former player, currently serving as president of the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association. Jackson was the head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 until 1998, during which Chicago won six NBA championships. His next team, the Los Angeles Lakers, won five championships from 2000 until 2010. In total, Jackson has won 11 NBA titles as a coach, surpassing the previous record of nine set...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 September 1945
CityDeer Lodge, MT
CountryUnited States of America
You get in that pressure situation where you feel like you have to win at home.
This one is certainly a challenge. It's an enjoyable one and one without a whole lot of pressure on me. The boss' daughter told me if things don't work right, I can take a day off.
There's still a fan core out there that's not going to let him off the hook. They're not going to give him the grace and the ability to get himself off the hook and into the fans' favor.
There's going to be games like that, games that are going to be up there (offensively), especially with the accuracy on three-pointers that they did tonight.
There's never been anything like this in my tenure.
There's one thing that we've had success doing, and that's keeping (the Suns) out of their running game, their full-out, 60 mph running game that is difficult for us to keep up, difficult for the whole league to keep up with.
The toilets are flushing great in the locker room.
I've been nudging him gently in the right direction, hopefully, and I think he's ready to turn the corner,
They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. They got it righted and played good defense to get back in the game. I knew that Kobe would find a way out there to help us win.
They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. I almost left them alone on a sinking ship. But they got it right in time and it took another 10 minutes but they finally got it right and got going. That's what a layoff will do sometimes.
The win wasn't important for me, it was important for the team, ... But getting the win is twice as nice.
I've talked to other players that were there, but that was played in like complete silence. I guess there was a radio announcer there, but there was nothing else that you could even document it. People don't even know if they had a backboard or nets.
I've seen some remarkable games, but never anything like that.
I've seen some remarkable games but I've never seen anything like that before. It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team. It was not exactly the way you want to win a game, but when you have to win a game, it's great to have that weapon to be able to do it. We rode the hot the hand.