“If you don’t have enough playmaking skills, the triangle will drive you crazy”

Carmelo Anthony doesn’t leave a great memory in the memories of Knicks fans, to say the least. We must add to the schmilblick that said, the idea that the period Phil Jackson, stubborn with his triangle attack, surely did not help the player to shine. He talks about it.

When Phil arrived he said he was going to use whatever methods he wanted. He had in mind to recruit staff who would suit the system he wanted to put in place. He said of me that I could not do in the triangle and that he did not want to have a player like me. So little by little he took the team aside and chose the pieces that he thought would fit the triangle. But you can’t play in a two-guard front system when you have Derrick Rose and Raymond Felton. You can not do this. You can’t put Derrick Rose in such a system, it’s not his game. We needed D-Rose to run instead. ” Carmelo Anthony

Melo goes on to explain that under the instructions of Phil Jackson, the coaches had not given him any freedom in the triangle. Opposite the teams knew exactly how to defend to stop the Knicks since there was never any unforeseen.

When you play like that for 48 minutes, the opponents adapt while you, you don’t. You continue to play the same way. Obviously, the bullet would find us if we moved and circulated. This is the system that works like this: where you send the ball into the triangle will influence your attacks. When the opponents start to figure this out, they adapt and we’re screwed. If they defend our two-guard front, we’re done. If they prevent us from making our screens, we are dead. Our opponents were smart and quickly started doing this. The movement of the ball influences everything else. Except suddenly, the guys found themselves in positions where they shouldn’t have been. So when you got the ball, everyone stayed in their place, everyone was planted there, and it was up to you to create an action. If you don’t have enough playmaking skills, the triangle will drive you crazy. ” Carmelo Anthony

So yes, you would think that the triangle is now an outdated strategy. For Anthony, however, the concern might have come from elsewhere.

We didn’t have the staff to do that. Phil was not our coach. And since he wasn’t our coach, it definitely couldn’t work the way he hoped it would. ” Carmelo Anthony

And yes, if Carmelo Anthony is not exempt from all reproaches concerning his passage in New York, the era of Phil Jackson was also catastrophic. A GM / President of basketball operations who wants to manage everything, until it happens on the court in great detail, it hasn’t worked often. Some geniuses have however succeeded …

Via The Old Man & The Three