[情報] Tex Winter Elected to Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame

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On Monday morning, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced its 2011
inductees, including former Lakers assistant coach Tex Winter.

Winter, who served as an assistant and consultant for the Lakers at the tail
end of his remarkable basketball career, is considered one of the best and
brightest hoops minds since the game was invented by Phil Jackson, Kobe
Bryant and their 18 combined championships. Jackson credits Winter for
teaching him the renowned triangle offense (called “Triple Post” back in
the day) and for having a immeasurable impact not only on Jackson’s coaching
career, but on basketball.

“His giving to the game itself is something that’s a great benefit to a lot
of people,” said Jackson. “People in the Philippines, New Zealand, Iceland
and around the world remember his tour and the time he spent freely and
givingly without really remuneration to just promote the game of basketball
and particularly his style of it.”

When asked what he thought about Winter being selected, Kobe Bryant simply
said, “It’s about time.”

Below is a transcription of comments made by both Jackson and Bryant about
Winter:

Phil Jackson on Tex Winter:
On what Jackson learned from Winter more than anything else:
Jackson: How to develop an offense from skill drills is probably the best
thing that Tex taught. Basketball starts with being able to pick up the
basketball and pivot. From there you move into passing and then the other
things that become more complicated, but you have to start from the very
basic beginning with the basketball.

On a reason it took so long for Winter to get into the Hall, and the history
of Jackson’s relationship with him:

Jackson: That an assistant coach would be in the Hall of Fame kind of grated
on some people ... it was made up for head coaches, or general managers, or
people that had played the game itself in a great nature. But Tex was the
winningest coach in college when he went into the pros with the Houston
Rockets, and he had been a head coach in so many different realms and arenas
– not only in the Big 12 and the Big 8 but also out here at Long Beach St.
before he retired as an active college coach – that to be hired on as a
coach to the coaches is what (former Bulls GM Jerry Krause) wanted to do for
him. It seemed kind of like an unusual position. He was shuttled around the
Bulls organization a little bit during different realms of coaches, but we
had a relationship that went very deep, Tex and I, simply because I wasn’t a
very good coach and didn’t have a lot of knowledge, and he had a lot of
knowledge. He and Johnny Bach both, his contemporary, who were my
co-assistants when I was on that Bulls staff, kind of educated me on the
different formats of basketball. Then Tex spent two summers with me teaching
me how to develop the drills that I’ve used all these years, skill drills to
develop the system that he’s taught. In that aspect, Tex was willing to go
anywhere in the world to teach the offense, or teach basketball. His giving
to the game itself is something that’s a great benefit to a lot of people.
People in the Philippines, New Zealand, Iceland and around the world remember
his tour and the time he spent freely and givingly without really
remuneration to just promote the game of basketball and particularly his
style of it.

On if anyone ever told Jackson he was wrong as much as Winter:

Jackson: My mother. I’ll tell you a story. (Knicks coaching legend) Red
Holtzman, when we had a reunion I think 10 years after the 1973 championship,
Red brought his wife over and said, ‘She’s the real coach, she tells me how
to live my life.’ And that’s kind of how mother’s are. They’re the ones
that tell you what’s right and wrong.

On the root of Jackson’s adoption of the triangle offense:
Jackson: Actually, the Knicks played a form of the triangle offense. We
played a system that was very similar to that. As a player, I liked
structure, I think it helps players settle into the game. I believed in it,
and before I ran into Tex and was coaching in the CBA, I ran what’s called a
Flex offense, which has its limitations, and I recognized that. In the
process of coaching the Bulls at that particular time, (former Head Coach)
Doug (Collins) was completely, often, befuddled by the fact that we had no
real great point guard to contest with Isiah Thomas — not too many people
did — but Tex kept encouraging (Collins) that a system offense would be able
to play without having one specific ball carrier, floor leader on the floor,
and tried to convince Doug to run the system. Having inherited that team and
knowing that we had a guard named John Paxson that was really a terrific
player and good leader, but not particularly a point guard, it was very easy
to adopt that system of offense and use it in a variety of ways in which we
still continue to due. A guy like Derek Fisher shares the point guard
responsibilities with so many different people with Bryant, with Odom and so
forth. It’s a shared opportunity, which is sort of a lost art in our game.

On the value of Winter being honest and direct with his critiques and
criticisms:

Jackson: We used to say that there wasn’t much of a governor on Tex, he just
spoke what his mind impulsively told him to say. He’s like the mind of the
Basketball Gods. If you played against the rules of the game, he was going to
comment to you, or comment to me in hopes that I would comment to the players
later on. He got frustrated with players at times. A Michael Jordan, who he
said couldn’t pass the ball right; Shaq who didn’t take coaching very
easily; Kobe who over-penetrated or handled the ball too long so the offense
didn’t run right. Every star that I’ve ever had on a team, except Scottie
Pippen, he had trouble with parts of their game.

Kobe Bryant on Tex Winter:

On Winter’s selection to the Hall:
Bryant: “It’s about time. It’s very well deserved. I’m beyond happy for
him, so it’s exciting. A little past due, but better late than never.

On Winter’s being direct about his principles:
Bryant: I’ve been next to him on the bench and he’d tell Phil, you’re
coaching (badly). He’ll tell me that I’m playing (badly). He doesn’t pull
any punches whatsoever. He coaches the game, it’s nothing personal with him
at all. He has certain principles that he feels like the game should be
played by, and if they’re not being played that way he’s going to say
something. It’s beautiful.

On what that did for players:
Bryant: It helps us develop. He’s not going to sugar coat anything. I
remember after we won our second championship here, he came in here right
before we had a parade, we we were all sitting around, and he talked about us
not making fundamentally correct chest passes. He was serious. We all started
laughing, and he couldn’t understand why we were laughing. That’s just Tex.

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