Darko Rajakovic: “I think there is no success without the players… Phil Jackson isn’t Phil Jackson without Michael Jordan. My Michael Jordan is Scottie Barnes. A young guy with a big heart, a great worker. I am very grateful for him.”
I honestly love how much Darko glazes Scottie every chance he gets. Seems like a great coach.
Who can blame him, Scottie seems great in every way
Imagine being a basketball coach for 30 years and finally getting a player who’s 6’8” but can read the floor and pass like a point guard, doesn’t dribble the air out of the ball, and defends like a madman. A coach’s dream.
What? He’s a terrible person but great basketball player. Same can be said about MJ.
Wtf did Scottie do???
Rampant cheater, like most NBA players. Just a cry baby in general. I’m a huge Scottie was a major part of MJs rings supporter but he’s a douche.
… are you confusing Scottie Pippen for Scottie Barnes?
No, when did Barnes play with MJ? As a toddler?
Nobody is talking about Pippen in this comment chain my guy. Why would Darko Rajakovic, the current coach of the Toronto Raptors, be talking about coaching Scottie Pippen
The only Scottie being discussed here is Barnes
F, I smoked the wrong weed and just saw MJ and Scottie. Mi culpa
He does seem special. I’ll give him that.
Holy Redditor just completely nukes any sense of sincerity with a low effort joke
I do not care about scottie barnes but I knew what was the downvoted comment before clicking on it lol
Welcome to the Marvel generation. Any sort of emotional weight needs to be completely dissolved by a stupid joke within 2 seconds otherwise we might feel something.
I don’t know what I hate more between that, and the fetisization of aloofness and nonchalance.
I’ll never give up on my whimsy!
I don’t get it
There’s a meme that Scottie Barnes is mentally challenged because he acts so goofy.
Really he’s just a positive guy and likes to have fun.
it blows me that one of the most cerebral, high level processing players in this league is given this moniker.
some sad shit.
Don’t be the problem dude
Ts was funny for 10 days 2 years ago just let it go bruh
Its funny because this is supposed to be a dig at Scottie and yet even if it was true (its not), hes still 10000x more successful and relevant then you will ever be in your life
various noises related to anger
Loser shit
Nah he doesn’t nuke it just exposes his own ignorance, I bet he thinks the Sixers are gonna win it all this year.
“Scottie Barnes, is going to be the FACE of this league”
As an FSU fan, I’m here for it! Malik Beasley took a different approach.
Coach should be a homer, but what else is he going to say?!
29 coaches haven’t gone this far
he’s the Harbaugh (weird one?) / Herbert of the NBA
not that it’s bad, but I’m just saying many other coaches have found a way to say nothing instead of going this far
There’s always been another layer to their relationship.
Find yourself someone who supports you like Darko supports Scottie
Jim Harbaugh glazing Herbert.
I want Darko to tell us Scottie is Locked, Cocked, and ready to Rock
The face of the league is all of the above and more!
Scottie Barnes is the face of the league.
I wouldn’t even know where to look
Love darko
Darko makes everybody believe
He’s just a genuinely amazing human being. Like I don’t know how he could have answered this question any better.
his celebration after his first win is absolutely iconic haha
“LETS FUCKING GOOOO!!!” he’s awesome
I strive to love my son the way Darko loves Scottie
It says a lot about Scotties power in the organization. Still his team.
I mean, we’ve seen a very direct example of what can happen when you let your team be Kawhi’s team lmao
HE GOES TO THE RIM WITH FORCE
WITHOUT FLOPPING 🤬
Scottie BARNES?!
Sct Brn
Now that Kawhi has come back to the Raptors, Scottie Barnes is now Scottie Pippen.
one of my favourite basketball quotes of all time, from i think shea serrano, was something along the lines of “phil jackson went to the lakers after leaving the bulls so he could prove he could still win championships without the best player in the world (as long as he still had 2 of the next-best players in the world)”
anyhow yeah shoutout scottie b. i saw him at a tempo game about a month ago cool dude
I don’t know if this could possibly track with the other folks here on the r/nba sub, but coach Rajakovic bears a resemblance to the non-Bowen Yang host of Las Culturistas.
Can you drop a photo so we can see?
You could have just highlighted the text ‘host of Las Culturistas’ and clicked ‘search google for….’ and gotten your answer.
Yeah but you doing this helps the other 500 people who saw the comment but didn’t reply and don’t want to do all that.
I see it! Very much in the eyes! The big intense eyes just like Matt’s for sure!!
“Darko compares Scottie Barnes to Michael Jordan in interview…”
People on the Raptors Reddit keep saying Barnes has a chance to catch Jordan if he uses Kawhi as a mentor next season. Maybe not quite the scorer, but a better defender.
Nobody is saying that wtf
There’s a lot of discussion about how Scottie gets chronically underrated. Darko just commented about their similarities.
Chronically underrated = saying hes Jordan? Lmao
Barnes has a chance to catch Jordan
they think he is going to be the greatest player of all time?
Maybe not quite the scorer
That might be the understatement of the century.
but a better defender
I often wonder if kids nowadays actually know that Jordan was the defensive player of the year and shares the record for most 1st Team All Defensive nominations in NBA history. Or are they just too influenced by that absurdly dumb ‘study’ that Klutch sponsored that allegedly showed some stat inflation for a handful of games in MJ’s DPOY season? If that study was submitted to the scientific community for scrutiny it would have been rejected on the basis of breaking almost every single rule in the book of how to conduct a study.
It sucks how underrated Scottie is as a defender. MJ has talked in interviews about how much of himself he sees in Scotties defensive ability…can’t get any respect.
You literally stated that Scottie is better defender than MJ and then when he proves you wrong, you have the audacity to say he can’t get any respect?
tf are you talking about lol
Ted Lassovic
sct brn
Sct brn
el cheapo is right… coaches dont matter
Doug Collins catching strays?
Kawhi is my Bernie Madoff
I have a completely ridiculous amount of hope for this season.
Well, nobody can accuse him of not believing in Scottie I guess
Do you think he’s actually comparing Scottie to Jordan in like a statistical all time great sense?
He’s talking about coming in as a coach and having a young great player to build with and work together with from the start.
He absolutely believes in Scottie but I don’t think anyone is saying he’s comparable to MJ lol
I mean kinda, I guess I just didn’t want to think about it too much and just make some snarky quip about it.
I’m here to troll and tear people down, not talk about basketball in a constructive manner
No pressure, kid!
I’d run straight through a brick wall for Darko!
I’m lol go
Phil Jackson won 5 more championships after Jordan though. While Jordan never won anything without Phil.. Never even got out of the first round without Scottie.
Sure, Phil Jackson did win a further 5 championships after Jordan implementing his triangle offense, but he did so with one key player in all 5 of those championships… Kobe.
Very disingenuous of you to bring up Kobe when the guy averaged 15 ppg in the 2000 finals. It was Shaq who carried in that 3peat.
Ok then Prime Shaq if not Kobe. Doesn’t change my point that he benefited from having the best player in the league at the time.
comparing “jor-dan” to thee scottie barnes 😭✌🏾
pass me that shit you smoking coach
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Masai ain’t in Toronto ya goofy
He may be too late given he works in Dallas now
Masai’s last gift to Toronto will be orchestrating a Cooper Flagg trade to the Raptors at the cost of RJ Barrett and some picks.
I’m fine with his actual final gift, Collin Murray-Boyles
So he’s going to trade Luka to the Raptors?
Masai found him in Dallas
Masai? Wish he was still with the Raptors.