On August 23, Beijing time, Lakers forward Anthony was interviewed in a podcast show in Los Angeles recently, and talked about his previous trade to leave the Knicks. Anthony admits that was the toughest time of his career, when the Knicks kept losing, but he was still reluctant to leave, but Phil Jackson kept forcing him to leave. Although Phil Jackson never directly said let melon go, every time he said it to him revealed this meaning.
The contradiction between Melon and Phil Jackson in the final stages of the Knicks has been very deep, as the absolute core of the Knicks at that time, Melon was very dissatisfied with the interference of Phil who was the president of basketball operations at that time, and he was even more disgusted by Phil Jackson forcing a triangle attack regardless of the status quo. Melon at the time had said that the Knicks lacked a good feeling for Phil Jackson from the coaching staff to the players.
Phil Jackson had just been swept out of new York because of the Internal Lakers' internal struggles, and then he went to New York to become the president of basketball operations for the Knicks, and moved Fisher to the Knicks as manager. But according to some of Fisher's later interviews, he had no idea that Phil had recruited him to the Knicks to let him lead the team to a triangle offense, and if he had known, he would not have gone to the Knicks' muddy waters. And the end of that Knicks was exactly as Fisher said.
They had just achieved the team's best in nearly two decades before the Knicks switched to a triangle offense, reaching the second round in the playoffs, but they never made the playoffs after Phil Jackson went, and that was the first time in Anthony's career that they didn't make the playoffs, followed by all sorts of locker room conflicts. At that time, many people said that Anthony did not understand triangle offense, and when there was a single ball, Kobe Jordan was very far away, so he could not meet Phil's tactical concept, but Anthony said very early that he and Kobe Bryant had studied triangle offense, which was very familiar, it can be said that his threat was not as good as Jordan and Kobe, but the Knicks' other configurations were obviously not as good as the Bulls and Lakers of the year.
Phil Jackson has won 11 championships in his coaching career, 6 of which are from the Bulls who own Jordan and 5 from the Lakers who own Kobe Bryant, there is not much to question in terms of coaching ability, but he is too ambitious, whether in the late Stages of the Lakers or in the Knicks want to reach out to more places, but in fact he did not do well in the manager position. After the Knicks' record collapsed, he was eventually swept out by the Knicks, which was a late season, and Anthony began a turbulent career after this.