Which basketball coach do you consider to be the best in history?

Question

There are alot of coaches, past and present, who have done a tremendous job of coaching the game of basketball. The I would consider as being the best of all time would be John Wooden. He was a coach that players and other coaches respected. The dynasty he built at UCLA will always be known as one of the greatest ever...

Answer 1

Pat Summit for the Tennessee Lady Vols !!!!

Answer 2

College
1. Wooden
2. Coach K.
3. Bobby Knight
One day Coach K might overtake Wooden. What Coach K has done in today's culture is spectacular. If he wins another championship then Coach K will be the best of all time. Wooden had the deck stacked heavily in his favor. X's and O's then Bobby Knight might be the best of all-time.
Pro
1. Red Auerbach
2. Pat Riley
3. Greg Popovich

I know people will say Phil Jackson but can you honestly tell me that Pat Riley or Greg Popovich wouldn't have won with those Bulls and Lakers teams that Jackson had??? Come on.
Riley and Popovich wouldn;t have allowed the Lakers to disintegrate like they did.

Answer 3

currently, I would give the nod to Coach K. many of the duke players he coaches end up being busts in the NBA, but I think it is because he is working with mediocre talent and motivating them to perform at a much higher level.
best coaches of all time, I would say Red Aurbach and John Wooden.

for all of those who say that Phil Jackson is a great coach, I can not disagree with you more. He only coaches ready-made teams that are good enough to win championships without him. And he does no coaching whatsoever. About all he does is burn incense in the locker rooms to create "holy team sanctuaries." stupid zen master.

Answer 4

Coach K

Answer 5

Pat Summit hands down! for Tennessee Lady Vols!
Go Vols!

Answer 6

Red Auerbach

Answer 7

Phil Jackson. 9 rings, 6 w/ the Bulls, 3 w/ the Lakers. He took "superstars" like Jordan, Kobe, and Shaq and turned them into champions. Say what you want about "inflation of talent" , but Jackson took a system, applied it, and won on a completely consistent basis in the golden years of the sport. plus his WORST season record is 42-40 which is still a winning record (last year's record.) wooow..freaking sick.

Answer 8

I hate to say it but Phil jackson, I mean, only he could harness so many egoes and make them work together to form a dynasty...

Answer 9

i'm not disagreeing with you, yet I ought to tutor some factors. whilst Wilt performed, there have been particularly few proficient enormous adult males to pass up against him (Russell being the final), so Wilt did not ought to stand as lots adversity from his defender. Secondly, in the process the time whilst wilt performed, there became no 3 interior the biggest rule, so, being the final scoring enormous-guy around, and not dealing with complicated defenders, he ought to truly camp out interior the lane, get the bypass, and unload in a pile of four-foot J's. that's why i think that he isn't the final there is. As for Russell, i think of that he had a lots extra effective team than Jordan, additionally, he had an identical benefit as Wilt, as a results of fact he became certainly one of the two suitable enormous adult males around, and have been no different in a position enormous-adult males to do something approximately it. i actually do not think of Robertson could be up right here, as a results of fact all nevertheless he's indubitably in all probability the main properly rounded participant, he in elementary terms gained one ring, which exhibits that he will on no account be a real winner. as a results of fact of Jordan's skill to fly, his consistent appearances on the spotlight reel, and his astonishing grasp baskets, there is not any doubt that he's the single maximum memorable participant around, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, he became decrease than the guideline of arguably the final all-time coach (not that i choose to argue approximately that), which takes some credit from him, as a results of fact all of us observed what he did on the Wizards, (yet that became previous his best.) So as a results of fact there have been no best enormous adult males interior the game whilst Wilt and Russell performed, i think of that there substantial benefit places them out of the competition. As for the enormous O, i think of it became shown that he ought to effectively be stopped, evidenced via his loss of rings. So even nevertheless i'm as green with envy as you're as a results of fact of my dislike for Michael, i think of that in case you seem objectively on the info to hand, it must be suggested that Michael Jordan became the final basketball participant ever. (till i'm interior the league, of path.) ;))

Answer 10

-Don Nelson
-Phil Jackson
-Lenny Wilkens
-Red Auerbach
-Jerry Sloan