The Mark Jackson fan club is not a big fan club.
And it’s moments like the first quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers-Golden State Warriors affair on Monday night that probably explain why.
The man played the play Dave Pasch asked Jackson about one of the most memorable moments of the Dub season so far: a rare, potentially PG-13 conversation from Curry on the sideline of a March 11 case against Los Angeles Clippers.
“He got very vocal at the end of the Clippers game when they were losing and called his team,” Pasch shared with Jackson, as they played Curry’s clip screaming at his teammates. “They said they need to be more consistent, they can’t just wait for that to happen every night.”
And then he asked Jackson, who coached Curry from 2011-2014, if that kind of leadership was something Curry needed to develop.
“It’s something he’s growing up on. Steph Curry has been a great leader, but he was a different leader than, say, how I led as a basketball player,” said Jackson, making sure to self-destruct.
“The Steph Curry I had,” Curry continued, “he watched and listened to the skinny, mature vets like Jarrett Jack, Carl Landry, Jermaine O’Neal. He learned from these guys, leaned back and listened. Steph Curry, this is the guy who leads this basketball team says ‘enough, I’m surrounded by young people who don’t have the same experience as me, let me use my voice.’ He came out with a victory, the biggest of the season. “
Except for the fact that he didn’t come out with a win.
The Warriors were eliminated by 130-104, the second highest loss of the season.
Pasch brought it up again after a commercial break, saying the Warriors’ 131-119 victory against Jazz on Sunday was partly because of Curry’s fiery moment on the bench during “the disappointing effort against the Clippers.”
At that point, Jackson went on to discuss how much more vocal Steph would help … Draymond Green because he won’t have to … talk so much.
Nice.
But Jackson, of course, did not stop there. In the middle of the second quarter, he had a very complicated discussion involving Reggie Miller being a champion, although he, um, well, never won a championship.
Then he made the same statement about Curry, but with a more self-taught attitude: “When I had (Curry), he was a champion”.
Except, as we all know, Curry won a title the year after Jackson came out and won two more in 2017 and 2018.
Once again, Mark Jackson’s fan club has perhaps become even smaller: