The Mark Jackson’s announcer fan club is not a big fan club.
And those are moments like the first quarter of Monday night’s Los Angeles Lakers-Golden State Warriors case that probably explains why.
Play-by-play man Dave Pasch questioned Jackson about one of the most memorable moments of the Dubs season so far: a rare, potentially PG-13 pep talk from Curry on the sidelines of a March 11 case against the Los Angeles Clippers.
“He had a lot of votes at the end of the Clippers game when they lost and he called out his team,” Pasch shared with Jackson as they repeated the cut of Curry yelling at his teammates. “Saying they need to be more consistent can’t just expect that to happen every night.”
And then he asked Jackson, who coached Curry from 2011-2014, if that type of leadership was something Curry needed to develop.
“It’s a thing he’s doing. Steph Curry was an excellent leader, but was a leader who was different from, let’s say, how I led as a basketball player,” Jackson said.
“The Steph Curry I had,” Curry continued, “he looked and listened to the fat vets, mature guys like Jarrett Jack, Carl Landry, Jermaine O’Neal. He learned from the guys, sat back and listened Steph Curry, the man who leads this basketball team, says ‘enough is enough, I’m surrounded by young guys who do not have the same experience I have, let me use my voice.’ Achieved a victory, the biggest of the season. ‘
Except for the fact that he did not achieve a victory.
The Warriors were blown out 130-104, their second biggest loss of the season.
Pasch reiterated this after a commercial interruption, saying the Warriors’ 131-119 victory on Sunday was due in part to Curry’s fiery banking momentum during ‘the disappointing effort against the Clippers’.
At that point, Jackson went on to discuss how much Steph would help to be more vocal … Draymond Green because he did not have to talk so much.
Cool.
But Jackson, of course, does not stop there. In the middle of the second quarter, he makes a very complicated argument in which Reggie Miller is a champion, even though he, well, never won a championship.
He then makes the same statement about Curry, but with another self-shell: “When I (Curry) had, he was a champion.”
As far as we all know, Curry won a title this year after Jackson left and won two more in 2017 and 2018.
Once again, the Mark Jackson fan club may have gotten even smaller: