Lakers Rumors: Phil Jackson Doesn't Believe Lakers Are Done Changing Personnel

The NBA season is young, but there's been a great disturbance in the force this year. A presence is missing that has been felt for the past 25 years. A great, peaceful Zen has left us.

Man, don't you sort of miss having Phil Jackson around?

I do. But fear not, ye fellow Zen seekers, for Jackson recently spoke to Sam Smith of Bulls.com and had a few interesting things to say about his former team, the Lakers:

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I think they’re learning the system, coming together, Jackson said. They’ve got new pieces. Speed isn’t what they want it to be. This is a team that’s been used to playing whatever level of half court and taking care of opponents with execution. With their new kind of way they’re going to play I think they’re going to have some speed and some easier baskets and easier ability to make some points. I think they’re a team in transition, so to speak, and we’ll see some changes. I don’t think they’re done changing the personnel.

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But who, Phil? Will they move Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol for Dwight Howard? Or will they look to keep Bynum and go after Deron Williams of the Nets instead?

Phil, enlighten us!

Alas, Phil said no more on the matter. But I can imagine him telling us to look inside of ourselves for the answers, and in time, they would become clear.

That advice wouldn't really make any sense, however.

But his talk of transition does make you wonder how much longer a player like Kobe Bryant will fit into the transition of the Lakers from the team Jackson coached to the one Mike Brown is now coaching.

That isn't to suggest that Kobe doesn't still have game—he recently won Western Conference Player of the Week, after all—but rather, a question of how much longer the Lakers will want Bryant to be the centerpiece of the offense.

Will we see the offense slowly shift toward one revolving around getting Bynum—or Howard, if he winds up on the Lakers—the ball?

All good things come to an end, after all.

Just ask Phil Jackson.

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