Is Phil Jackson a Great Coach?
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when he could call it quits, his election to hall of fame is just around the corner. he is more than great, he is phenomenal. i mean i could not remember seing any coach having 9 rings in his fingers (plus one as a knick player). the only common thing for other coaches were change of address and not rings. as of 2005, he has the highest win percentage among NBA coaches all-time with 872-353 (0.712). that percentage is pretty hard. its like winning at least 58 games since your first year. he also lead chicago to 55 wins in his first coaching stint.\n\nphil has holistic approach to the game. not that he had good players but he utilize fully his best players to jive with less unheralded players to attaining strong team chemistry. sure he had jordan-pippen, kobe-shaq, now kobe-lamar but basketball is a team sport and as coach he did a very nice job of emphasizing team work. he had tamed hot-heads like rodman, discovered unknowns like kokuc and smush and made longley, wennington, mihm, kwame (not quite so far)fluid passing big men. though there were some instances like 1.8 sec scottie drama or kobe-shaq-phil issue, he was never involve in a feud with players like sprewell-carlesimo. he also has unique zen philosopshy and discipline that affects his basketball aura. though it was tex winter's invention, he successfully applied the rigorous triangle offense strategy. \n\nlastly, he gave young raw players the chance to develop. Just look at what he did to scottie and horace while with the bulls, and while with the lakers fisher, smush, bynum, lamar and kwame enjoyed rigorous motivation including scottie-lamar session and kareem-kwame-mihm-bynum tutorials. Compare that with what larry brown did to darko and arroyo while with the spurs; lebron, dwayne and melo in the olympics. frye, lee, nate and ariza now with the knicks. player motivation is the key. phil is brilliant and has that great charisma.
906049
from what i've heard, his winning record as a coach was so good that many considered him the benchmark for coaching success. hence, he became the original "ball coach"
861930
Absolutely!!!  I have never seen a player who analyzes and dissects a defense like he does!! I've been watching NFL football for 33 years, and he's THE (not one of the but THE) best Quarterback I have ever seen (Yes, I believe he is better then Elway, Marino, Montana, Farve, Simms, Aikman, and Young).
908478
no !!!!!!!.\n\nhe is a great player but will notb e a good coach . a good coach is not only great in skills but he is good in his temper , his way of handling  pressure and the team , encouraging them , finding new talent , right tactics and many more things . lippi was a perfect example . but zidane does not hav many things that are needed for a good coach.\n\nwhen will you stop insulting zidane ??
361041
Kobe is a worthless wanna be all-star, shoulda been convicted rapist, who won't amount to squat in the playoffs. Without Phil Jackson holding his hand, he would be back where he was last year leading the team to only it's second failure to reach the playoffs in 30 years. The only reason the Lakers are back in the playoffs this year is because they re-signed Phil Jackson, and he knows how to utilize what Kobe and the gang have.
784663
Steven Jackson is the Man...\n\nHe will have a great season and next year will be one of the top 4 picks in most leagues... He has done a great job this season and I expect him to continue his good performance...\n\nGood on to you if you got him...\n\ngood luck this week...
1161164
I am a cowboy fan, Bill Parcells turned that team inside out. He is a great coach, very underrated.
631793
Suns will win, Raja has friends who support him in PHX. Where's Kobe's support...NOWHERE...(except maybe the bought off refs, wife, league officials etc.) The Suns are in the Lakers heads. I know Phil Jack-Off is spin master but skills are skills and Nash & Co. have got them to pay the bills.
575298
Well, it certainly can't hurt. Let's remember that Jonty Rhodes had a lot of natural talent and skill as a fielder. Sure, he would have had to practice and polish up his skills, but a lot was natural ability. A coach will be able to assist in training and to impart ideas that may improve a player's performance, but one thing he cannot do is impart his own natural ability to a player. So, it doesn't really matter if the coach is Jonty Rhodes, or some ex-Baseball fielding guru. What it boils down to is if he is a good coach and can stimulate the best within the players.\n\nI don't think Inzamam Al Huq will listen to anyone!
501430
Yes he is. But What I feel is that they are not confident about their coaching ability. They are afraid of their non-performance. They are happy now but if they became the coach and the team loses that will be a great upset for them
51000
prekkoy, Dean Smith did not coach Walton or Lew Alcindor (it's Lew, not Lou...Lew was short for Lewis). They both played for John Wooden at UCLA... Alcindor's Bruins destroyed Smith's Tar Heels in the 1968 NCAA Championship game 78-55.\n\nJohn Wooden is the greatest college basketball coach ever, by far. Ten national championships in 12 years. Nowadays, you're great if you make it to the 'sweet 16'.  \n\nWooden's accomplishments totally dwarf Mike Krzyzewski's record, as well as that of every other college coach who ever lived.\n\nKrzyzewski is easily the best coach of the last twenty years. I think coach K is probably one of the top five college coaches ever, along with Wooden, Adolf Rupp, Bobby Knight and Dean Smith.\n\nOther than Elton Brand and Grant Hill, Duke's players don't seem to make very good NBA players, for some reason. Christian Laettner was never much of a player in the NBA, depsite the joke of naming him to the 1992 Dream Team, because they wanted to have one college player on the team.\n\nAny other Duke players from the last 20 years have a distinguished NBA career? I can't think of any. Bobby Hurley might have been a decent pro, but almost killed himself in that accident...\n\nWooden's players were much better prepared for the pros after playing at UCLA than Duke's players have ever been. But if I had one game to win in college today, there's no one I'd rather have on the sidelines than coach K.
3272
He's a great coach.  Look how he turned the Tampa Bay Buccaneers around.
646325
He is an owner. It's his team. He is VERY involved, but some would argue(and they would be right) that he would be more successful, and liked, if he gave his coaches more power, much like Mike Brown has given Marvin Lewis in Cincinnati. Used to me Mike Brown ran the show completely and that's why the Bengals stunk for so long. Hire a new guy, earn his trust and then let him run the organization more than the average coach, thats what I think Jerry Jones should do. Parcells is a great coach.
862592
Yes and it is very sad.... even after "retiring" from coaching, he was still a force to be reckoned with... valuable input many times and great in-site to the game.... he will be missed..\n\nNow Bo and Woody can "coach" again the greatest rivalry there is!!\n\nGo Blue!
632374
Considering that the Cavs have a mediocre coach and a team that consists of Lebron James and a bunch of bench warmers but they still made the playoffs I expect them to do very, very well in the future.  Look for them to try to get a talented second man ala Jordan's Pippen next season.  After that I expect Mike Brown to have two grace seasons to get the Cavs a trophy before they fire him and find a premiere coach.  Look for them to be the next NBA dynasty.
741366
Yeah he cleaned up the program, right. He had guys getting arrested left and right. He had two guys involved in crimes with weapons(Guns), not including Pata, in the last two years. He has had two of the biggest brawls in the last five years. He players are thugs, and he has a tough time controlling his team. Furthermore, if you are a coach and you have to make a comment, " I don't want any of my players to have guns" as he did, there is something wrong with your team. \n\nSecondly, He was beginning to lose. His teams were way overated. This last season was just a culmination of how bad the program has become. The teams have been way overated as of late and shown that.  I don't know if Coker is a bad guy, but he needed to go, and it needed to be long ago.
625662
If you dad was the head coach, it would help!