Lebron James has been receiving unnecessary flak for another failure in the NBA finals.
Now sporting a 2-4 record in the NBA finals, critics say he should not be put on the same level as Michael Jordan and other all time greats. His Cleveland Cavaliers lost to Golden State Warriors in Game 6, in their own court. Lebron James said he is not happy about the result and still bummed about it. For an athlete who gave his everything in the court, he should be getting sympathy.
Winning coach Phil Jackson, however, will have none of it.
Bleacher Report ran a coaching profile on Phil Jackson and there, the 11-time champion coach dropped some choice of words for Lebron James.
"I watch LeBron James, for example," Jackson said regarding the quality of NBA games.
"He might [travel] every other time he catches the basketball if he's off the ball. He catches the ball, moves both his feet. You see it happen all the time. There's no structure, there's no discipline, there's no 'How do we play this game' type of attitude. And it goes all the way through the game. To the point where now guys don't screen-they push guys off with their hands."
Before picking on Lebron James, Phil Jackson tackled the current playing style in the NBA. He rues the lack of team play in the playoffs and it seems also stems from Cleveland Cavaliers' performance wherein they heavily relied on King James.
"The game actually has some beauty to it, and we've kind of taken some of that out of it to make it individualized," Jackson said. "It's a lot of who we are as a country, individualized stuff."
"When I watch some of these playoff games, and I look at what's being run out there, as what people call an offense, it's really quite remarkable to see how far our game has fallen from a team game. Four guys stand around watching one guy dribble a basketball."
