Relectura a raiz del visionado de la serie documental 'The last dance'. Se lee desde otra perspectiva conociendo a fondo como lo vivieron los jugadores (sobre todo Jordan).
Me gusta el mundo interior del Phil Jackson. "El maestro zen" del basket habla de su toma de decisiones y cómo analiza todo en un trabajo tan estresante como ser entrenador de la NBA.

Apuntadas muchas citas, recomendaciones lectoras y películas que el mismo recomendaba a los jugadores o tomaba como cabecera durante sus años de entrenador de los Chicago Bulls.

pretty good book and an easy read. i liked reading his insights into specific games and then watching archival footage on youtube or on the nba website. honestly wish he dug more in depth to some of his coaching experiences, because i felt like a lot of his andecdotes were like “there is a lakota proverb that says communication is good. one time player x was feeling alienated from the team, but i talked to him and then he was okay”

Hey. It’s nice to visit old friends over the summer. I just spent a few days with the 90s Bulls and the Zen Master Phil Jackson. I guess it was updated in 2006 ( the edition I read). It was still fresh.
Of course today, Phil Jackson comes off as a bit of a fraud. To many wife updates and championships with the greatest basketball players in his roster.
It was great recapping the year the Bull almost won the championship without Jordan. Damn you Hough Hollins!
A lot of great book take aways. Thanks Phil and Bulls. Great seeing you again!

I would say that this book should be read by any gender because it displays a universal lesson that teamwork, hard work, and dedication can achieve tremendous success. I would rate this a 5 out of 5. I would recommend this novel to any person regardless of gender who love basketball and sports in general.

Read this after watching The Last Dance and seeing everything that Phil did with the Bulls/the best NBA player(s) in the world. Banging a gong at halftime to get them to play better, the burning of the letters at the end of the season in the stadium with the lights off after reading them, and just getting them to buy in to all of his whacky (in context of NBA) ideas. Also provided some interesting tidbits about his time coaching in Puerto Rico(?).

But by far the most I took from this book were all the interesting things he did with the team. I wrote a bunch down in a Keep Note, but also highlighted different things throughout the book (not sure if they all made it into the note). I wanted to bring this up to Grover and Miles for the 2020 season :,-( so we'll see when it can be used next.

Spoke with Brenner about this book, Brenner read 11 Rings by him.

Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior by Phil Jackson is a very well thought out and intriguing book. It caught my eye as soon as I flipped the first page. The lessons taught by Phil Jackson not only work, but have first hand encounters of all these lessons working. This book was fantastic, and makes me want to work on my basketball game using the lessons from the book. Phil Jacksons coaching of the champion Chicago Bulls, arguably one of the greatest teams that ever played the game of basketball including Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, and Steve Kurr were taught to be Role models not only on the court, but off the court. These lessons followed the players from the 90's to now. I would recommend this book to any sport fan, it doesn't have to be basketball because this philosophical book teaches you to become just an all around better athlete. This book stated they have to be someone that people can look up to.

While the basketball premise is interesting, what draws me into this book is Jackson’s storytelling and his compelling leadership style, combining personal zen, spirituality, silent leadership, and desired outcomes. Thank you for this roadmap to not only to success, but also personal contentment for leaders and followers alike.

How did I end up reading a sports book!? Two reasons: Phil Jackson was born in Williston, ND, which is where I was born. And he is a Zen Christian. I love this concept. I had purchased this from my father, the reason I was born in Williston is because that's where he is from, then he passed the book to me.

I am not a sports person however, I do remember the old teams: Bulls, Jorden, Dennis Rodam, Scottie Pipens. I actually recall those names. Reading about game strategy and plays was a little hard for me at times but I did my best to 'mindful' and stick with it - no skimming! And it was a good payoff to get the nuggets of the philosophy that Phil was going for with his team. The triangle offense, otherwise known as five-man tai chi. This was what he went for on his team - to be 'we' not 'me'. His goal was to create a mindfulness on the court and deep into the bench that they were all in it together.

I also enjoyed reading about how Phil brought in Lakota Sioux teachings and how he used film to motivate his team.

Personally I got lost a few times, so I felt the book jumped around a bit and at times felt repetitive - maybe not to a sports fan who knows the career path of coaches and teams-but overall the concept of tying sports and mindfulness together in the way he did was inspiring. He wanted to win just as badly as anyone else but his approach to getting the win was more centered.

I would LOVE to see all coaches learn this - from the Little League all the way up. Can you imagine if our kids could learn this first rather than the dog-eat-dog way to win?

Picked this book up when I was in college, and my biggest take away was how Phil Jackson brought a team together. Read it again a few years later and my take away was enjoying the journey of anything you put your mind to. Now after reading it again my thoughts have completely changed. It is about how to become selfless and become present in everything that you do. I’m sure if I read it once more there will be another chapter or verse in the book that will make me appreciate what Phil Jackson has done here.

Great read. Had to do about half of it in a single day as I was due to return it to a friend, but a really awesome book. You don't need to know a lick about basketball to enjoy it, but knowing a little helps.

Love the philosophy and spiritual lessons that Phil Jackson teaches. A really good story about the power of the human spirit!

// This is the great thing about lending books to friends. My good friend Louis lent this to me, I've really enjoyed it, yet it's a book that I wouldn't have chosen for myself!

Sacred Hoops is a non-fiction book written by the best NBA coach of all time, Phil Jackson. Calm is a great word to describe this historic book. This is because Phil uses meditation and bonding to lead his teams to 11 NBA championships, and this is the main idea of the book. Throughout the book, it shows how Phil Jackson developed into an extraordinary NBA coach. He focused on team play not individual. Scottie Pippen’s father died during the playoffs. Luckily, Phil Jackson was there to help. He used meditation to calm and train Scottie’s brain. Scottie played very well the next season and he is now a hall of famer.
tSacred Hoops definitely made me want to read more about the Bulls’ legacy and Phil’s coaching. It was very cool to learn about arguably the best basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan. Many people know a lot about him but they don’t know the details. In this book, you learn a lot about his feelings during games and outside of the court. You learn how Coach Jackson formed him into a great team player, not just a great individual. Michael left the Bulls to play in the MLB during his prime. After baseball didn’t work out, Phil shaped Michael back up into a special player, and it was very cool to learn more about that.
Although I liked this book, it was not a page-turner. It was really cool to learn more about historic basketball, but the book was too repetitive. In the book, it mostly talked about how Phil had the team meditate and bond before and during games. Rarely it had something else to talk about.
This book was complex because sometimes I could not tell who was telling the story. There were 3 main characters in this book, Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Scottie Pippen. The people’s point of view changed throughout the book, and it was hard to follow who was talking. Also, Phil talks a lot about religion and Indian culture. I did not understand most of that part.
I would recommend this to people who like sports especially basketball. Also, coaches because it shows you different techniques to be a better coach and have your team do well. If you don’t like sports I definitely wouldn’t read the book.

While I am a huge fan of NBA basketball, to limit Sacred Hoops to being just a book about basketball would do it a tremendous disservice. It's a book about life, growth, reinvention, leadership, and more. Personally, this book propelled me toward multiple other books and was my introduction to the calm, thoughtful leadership I now know as mindfulness. It's one of my all-time favorites!