Knicks president Phil Jackson is reported to be upset with the team’s offense and the result of the regular season. He believes the team is not utilizing triangle offense to its full capacity. However, players are not familiar with triangle offense.
Jackson is not happy again with the New York Knicks strategy. He has regularly expressed his disappointment with New Yorks Knicks since he became the president in 2014. One of the main reason, according to CBS Sports, is he that wanted Knicks to fully incorporate triangle offense philosophy.
At first, he hired Derek Fisher to coach the Knicks who played using Phil Jackson’s triangle philosophy for ten years. Therefore he was expected to to implement the system in Knicks. However, after one and half seasons passed he was still unable to implement similar system in New York, so the Knicks let him go in the middle of 2015-16 season.
Many Knicks players are not familiar with the fundamental of triangle offense philosophy. Particularly the basic footwork and passing needed to run triangle offense effectively. Point guard Derrick Rose prefer to run the pick and roll system than triangle offense.
Forward Carmelo Anthony has also been tired of hearing and talking about triangle offense, as reported by SLAM Online. He was one of the player who is reluctant to play using the system.
“We’re just playing basketball. We’re making adjustments offensively regardless of what we’re running,” Anthony said. “At this point, I’m getting tired of hearing about the Triangle. Just getting tired of hearing about it.”
In the moden NBA game, triangle offense is considered to be an antiquated system, which is not suitable in the modern basketball game. Triangle offense runs in a slow pace while most NBA teams use a fast pace system. However, the triangle offense has been implemented by great players Michael Jordan, Shaquile O’Neal and Kobe Bryant for three decades, and it has given 11 NBA championships for Phil Jackson.
Watch the interview with Anthony and his complaint about triangle offense below:
