Stockton: Zhan Huang huddles to win the championship because he doesn't climb the mountain, but flies up in a helicopter
On February 1, it was reported that a few days ago, Jazz legend John Stockton talked about Lakers star LeBron James on the show, Stockton said that James should be inferior when he went to the Heat to win the championship, because he "flew up in a helicopter".
"Today's NBA players have a lot of power, and in the free agent era they were like general managers. This was not the case at all when you were playing, or if there was such a situation, you would not have said it publicly. I'm curious, once upon a time, did you ever intervene with Jazz management like that, saying something like that? Whoever we have can become a super team. ”
"No, I'm just focused on what I do. We believe in Jazz management, they're excellent. Before I arrived, they had built a team that could grow all the time. I have faith in them, I have faith in our coaches. Our own work is hard enough, so we focus on the game itself. I haven't given advice once in my entire career. Only once, late in my career, did they ask me if I would like to play with Hornacek, and even if I did, it was after the trade deadline. I said yes, he's a great player. And they said, "Congratulations, he's your new teammate." This was the last conversation I had with management about trading players. ”
The host said, "What do you think of the NBA right now? I don't like that. For example, James, although I am a Cavaliers fan and like James, he intervenes in management, but the management has almost consumed the future with everything it has. After the win, everybody said James was the best, but when he left, those teams were terrible. They've got no elective assets, they've got nothing! I think that's a disservice to the NBA, what do you think?"
"I've never been in management and I don't know how management is going to judge, a player is dictatorial like James, I'm not sure, but he looks like he did," Stockton said. I think it's going to be annoying as James' teammate because he could replace you at any moment. If it affects the team, if it affects the upper echelons, I don't like it, I just like it, I'm going to mention Jordan here, I think I'm very similar to the Jazz at that time, I want us to tighten our belts and say, we just have to be stronger, play harder, play smarter, instead of finding a team with better resources to win the championship, I think this championship is down. You're not climbing a mountain, you're flying up in a helicopter. I'm not a fan of this kind of behavior, but who cares what an old guy thinks like me?"