The other day I told Charles Barkley, at whom Jackson directed a Twitter shot the other night, that clearly he hasn’t grasped those seven principles of the triangle that Phil likes to talk about. Barkley laughed. “I know four principles of the triangle,” Barkley said. “Michael, Scottie, Kobe, Shaq...There are 15 players on the roster. Jackson is responsible for nine of them. You keep hearing that he hasn’t had time to turn over the roster. Well, he’s sure turned over a lot of it. Enough of these players we’re told are losers who can’t grasp the intricacies and genius of the triangle, they’re his. Unless we’re supposed to believe that only the holdovers are the bums here.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:21:26 +0000