Home Schooling?

Only a guy that has won a record 10 NBA titles could even float this idea out there.  Lakers head coach Phil Jackson is talking about potentially coaching the team’s home games for the most part in 2009-10, with assistant Kurt Rambis taking over most of the coaching duties on the road.  Though it sounds like a far-fetched idea, it’s not out of the question, according to Jackson.  “Yeah, we’ve toyed around with that idea actually,” Jackson told ESPN Radio.  ”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.”

Jackson is notoriously laissez-faire with his team, sometimes not even talking to them in time out situations.  He leaves a lot up to Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, it seems, though Jackson still plays a major role.  “I think the idea has some merit to it,” Jackson said of coaching mainly at Staples Center.   ”[But] I don’t want to lose control of the team.  And I think that’s the one thing that you find out your team needs.  I don’t mean control, like control, but like being in the trenches with them, i.e., when things get tough or something happens, you’re there with them.”

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