Lakers Considering Two Coach System (Home/Away)

[jimotis4heisman]

Phil Jackson mulls coaching Los Angeles Lakers mostly at home - ESPN

Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson said in a radio interview Tuesday that he will make a firm decision about returning to the bench next season by "early July" and that he will also explore the possibility of letting Lakers assistant coach Kurt Rambis coach more road games in Jackson's place.


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In the interview with ESPN Radio in Los Angeles (710 AM), Jackson insisted that health concerns would be the only reason that prevented him from completing the final season of his current coaching contract.

He also revealed that the concept of Rambis coaching the team regularly on the road -- theoretically sparing Jackson, who turns 64 in September, from the rigors of travel -- has already been discussed internally.

The Lakers completed a test run of the concept in April when Jackson, having had both of his hips replaced in recent years, skipped a one-game trip to Portland on the second night of back-to-back games shortly after the team had finished a grueling seven-game trip. With Rambis in charge, L.A. suffered a 106-98 loss to the Blazers.
"Yeah, we've toyed around with that idea actually," Jackson told ESPN Radio hosts John Ireland and Mychal Thompson. "I guess it's not that revolutionary. We talked a little bit about it, and you know I was actually kind of given the green light to actually try this out and when the time came."

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interesting concept i guess. maybe a webcam coach?

[NextBuck]

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

Originally Posted by jimotis4heisman

interesting concept i guess. maybe a webcam coach?

A surrogate coach a la Arrested Development's surrogate for George Bluth.

[OCBucksFan]

They aren't really considering this, Buss said no way in hell, you're a fulltime coach or not a coach at all. We love Phil, but if he's not healty enough to travel, then he needs to assume another position in the organization or retire. We would love to have him stay here, for a few reasons, he's a great coach that got us 4 titles, it irritates the hell out of Celtics fans that he was coaching the Lakers when he got his 10th ring, and he's dating the bosses daughter. But he's not going to be a part time coach that makes 12 million a year.