Just My Type

YOU CAN'T accuse Mike Singletary of lacking passion. At halftime of his first game as 49ers coach, he dropped trou to illustrate his point that the team was being embarrassed, then he called out tight end Vernon Davis in the postgame press conference. I asked Phil Jackson if that kind of motivation would work for them. He said he prefers "patience and repetition" as teaching tools. Jackson threw a can of Coke in frustration at halftime of a playoff game seven or eight years ago, and he still regrets it. "It really bothered me," he said. "I find most of the time [a tantrum] either does damage to yourself, or you end up not getting your point across or you become a fool."

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