Eleven rings the soul of success phil jackson

[...]... be bothered by the various images you find in your mind Let them come and let them go Then they will be under control.” The best way to control people, he adds, is to give them a lot of room and encourage them to be mischievous, then watch them “To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy,” he writes The second worst is trying to control them The best one is to watch them, just to watch them,... essence of coaching is to get the players to wholeheartedly agree to being coached, then offer them a sense of their destiny as a team 6 ONE BREATH = ONE MIND When I took over the Lakers in 1999, they were a talented but highly unfocused team They often fell apart in the playoffs because their attack was so confused and undisciplined and the better teams, such as the San Antonio Spurs and the Utah... sons: The samurai wanted to teach his sons about the power of teamwork So he gave each of them an arrow and asked them to break it No problem Each son did it easily Then the samurai gave them a bundle of three arrows bound together and asked them to repeat the process But none of them could “That’s your lesson,” the samurai said “If you three stick together, you will never be defeated.” This story reflects... the playoffs could be The close contest woke them up and helped them move closer to becoming a selfless stage 4 team No question, the team that walked off the floor in Orlando after winning the championship finals in five games was different from the team that had fallen apart on the parquet floor of the TD Garden in Boston the year before Not only were the players tougher and more confident, but they... diagrams of plays on the board during pregame talks Every now and then, to keep the players focused, he would ask them to nod their heads if they heard the word “defense” while he was talking —which happened about every fourth word Still, the players drifted off when he was talking, so he asked me to break down the strengths and weaknesses of the teams we were facing and draw pictures of their key... Willis near the basket, and he knocked in a short jump shot Then he scored again the next time up the floor, and all of a sudden the Knicks jumped out to a 7–2 lead, which usually doesn’t mean much in the NBA, but in this case it did Willis’s commanding presence in the early going knocked the Lakers off their game and they never recovered Of course, it didn’t hurt that Frazier had one of the greatest... don’t love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play That’s why at the start of every season I always encouraged players to focus on the journey rather than the goal What matters most is playing the game the right way and having the courage to grow, as human beings as well as basketball players When you do that, the ring takes care of itself 3 RED The greatest carver does the least cutting LAO-TZU... styles of coaching: the domineering “my way or the highway” type of leader (which, in Bill’s case, was tempered by his devilish sense of humor) The other classic type is the suck-up coach, who tries to mollify the stars on the team and be their best friend—a fool’s exercise at best I’ve taken a different tack After years of experimenting, I discovered that the more I tried to exert power directly, the. .. freeing the rest of the team to move more freely inside That led to a decisive 107–100 win The Lakers returned home and tied up the series in game 6, setting up one of the most dramatic moments in NBA history The big question was whether Willis would be able to return for game 7 in Madison Square Garden The doctors kept us in the dark until the last minute Willis couldn’t flex his leg because of the muscle... down the center aisle and onto the court, and the crowd went berserk Future broadcaster Steve Albert, who was the honorary ball boy for the game, said he was looking at the Lakers when Willis appeared on the floor and “they all, to a man, turned around and stopped shooting and looked at Willis And their jaws dropped The game was over before it started.” Frazier moved the ball up court at the start of the . and then danced through the season to the best record in the Western Conference (6 5-1 7). The most troubling threat came in the second round of the playoffs from the Houston Rockets, who pushed the. at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy . . . All of them embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don’t love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. That’s. coached, then offer them a sense of their destiny as a team. 6. ONE BREATH = ONE MIND When I took over the Lakers in 1999, they were a talented but highly unfocused team. They often fell apart in the