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| DEAN'S LIST |
Jackson Reshapes Triangle!
05-13-2004 |
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| Jackson's revolutionary Square Offense inspires "thinking inside the box." |
The odds have been stacked against him. A rape charge. A threat of imprisonment. A marriage in shambles. A team in disarray. Quite simply, a future in doubt. For nearly nine months, Kobe Bryant has been fighting for his life at home, in the courtroom and on the basketball court. Somehow though, the Lakers superstar is defying the odds…
This past Tuesday, the All-NBA defandant pled innocent to rape charges by day and man-handled All-NBA defender Bruce Bowen by night with 42 points, six rebounds and five assists. In dominating game four of the Western Conference Semi-Finals, Kobe tendered a different kind of plea: no contest…
LA’s Big Four – Kobe, Shaq, Karl Malone and Gary Payton – are finally gelling. In the face of virtual playoff elimination, the Hall of Fame quartet didn’t just “turn it on.” Chemistry doesn’t evolve overnight, but game plans do…
We all know that Phil Jackson’s Triangle Offense revolves around three players, each of whom represents a side of the triangle. Over the weekend, it occurred to the Laker coach that his offense was too small for the Big Four. In other words, the Triangle needed another side. Yet Jackson's pursuit of the elusive four-sided triangle was to no avail…
Hours before game three, Phil had an epiphany. But it wasn’t about adding another side to the Triangle - it was about adding another side to the offense...
He quickly conceived a new plan of attack, one that would change the very shape of the Triangle as we know it: the Square Offense. That’s right, the Square Offense. For the past two games, Jackson’s Square Offense has been running circles around the Spurs. By "thinking inside the box," the Zen Master has finally enlightened the Big Four. It seems that chemistry is more philosophical than scientific after all…
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| With lovely wife Debbie attached at the hip, Houston's Rocket is still on the rise. |
In round one of the playoffs, Jackson’s Lakers dispatched the Houston Rockets, but Houston’s Rocket is still on the rise. Congrats to 41-year-old Roger Clemens, who notched his MLB-leading seventh victory in as many starts on Tuesday night…
Speaking of perfection, in amassing an MLB-best nineteen stolen bases, Milwaukee’s Scott Podsednik has yet to be caught in 2004. At his current pace, the sophomore center-fielder would finish the year with 93 steals. I know it’s early, but get this: nobody has had as many as 80 stolen bases in a single season since 1988, when Vince Coleman and Rickey Henderson notched 81 and 93 steals for the Cardinals and Yankees, respectively…
The name of the game is Weather: Terry Fair…Tim Raines…Hale Irwin…Storm Davis…JT Snow…Josh Fogg…Mike Cloud…Drew Brees…Scott Frost… John Friesz…Sonny Liston…and Clarence Weatherspoon. I’m Dean Christopher... |
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