The Zen Master is back to his mind games and tricks but this time he wants to get the Knicks ready for a great season. The triangle comes to the Knicks and now they have to train a little more. The Knicks had to know Phil Jackson had something up his sleeve but this, well it’s something completely different.
According to ESPN.com’s Ian Begley, Jackson is putting the Knicks through ‘Mindfulness Training’.
Here’s what P-Jax said about the training:
“There’s a mindfulness training program that’s very logical and very calm, quiet and we’ve started the process with this team and [first-year head coach] Derek [Fisher is] all for it. He’s a proponent of it. And yet I think that it’s kind of what I am inserting in here as part of what I think has to happen because I know what effect it [has]. I think it’s very difficult sometimes for a coach to do this because it’s so anti what we are as athletes.
“We’re about action; we’re about this intense activity that we’ve got to get after. And this mindfulness is about sitting still and being quiet and controlling your breath and allowing you to be in the moment and yet it’s so vital for a team to have this skill or players to have this skill. To be able to divorce themselves from what just happened that’s inherent to them — a referee’s bad call, or an issue that goes on individually or against your opponent. You’ve got to be able to come back to your center and center yourself again.”
Well. He’s not called the Zen Master for nothing.
