Phil Jackson

However, all the lax rules that have contributed to this has kind of spiked this concept that this is what's the most important thing.

It's not about how to set a pick or how do you dribble a basketball or what's your footwork or what kind of passes can you make.

It's about getting the ball to the guy who's standing open in the corner for a three-point shot.

That's become the overwhelming parameters.

However, the game still relies on penetration.

That's the number one point of view.

And in our day, in the day of playing the game with big man centers and forwards and guards instead of all ball handlers like is kind of played today,

the idea that you put passes as a priority to the game to use penetration was really the feature and one of the things that we always remark about in the golden state era with steph curry and coached by steve kerr has been their passing ability and the number of passes that they still make

in a half-court setup to get the kind of shot they want to have.

And I think that's what still made the game attractive to the people who love it now, is that people pass and people set it up and there's teamwork that's going on in the competition.

No.

I think they...

I think it is a natural instinct in players to want to be coached.

They want to know if you're going to help them be better at what they do and how they can survive and succeed along with their group or their teammates.

I think the younger players...

that are striving to reach that maximum contract have been difficult to coach.

And that's a small group.

That's a group of maybe five, 10 young players in each draft class that is sitting in a

a hope scenario where they're going to be credited to be a max player at the end of a contract.

And those, you know, those tries to become a max player involve not being able to sit on the bench, having to be a starter, getting,