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wow 3.2 rating for the article ... guess few felt it was a good list ...
Pop squeaks in at 49 on the Sporting News top 50 coaches of all time.
http://www.sportingnews.com/college-...aches-all-time
wow 3.2 rating for the article ... guess few felt it was a good list ...
Other NBA coaches on the list:
#4 Phil Jackson
#6 Red Auerbach
#30 Pat Riley
#45 Chuck Daly
#49 Gregg Popovich
Geno on the list is hilarious.
how does chuck daily get on the list? he's not the fourth best nba coach of all time.
not a bad list, pop should be a little higher
He's dead. List makers love dead people. If Pop were to die tomorrow, he'd move up twenty places.
They got the #1 guy spot on.
o i thought it was of basketball coaches
if so he should be in the top 10
and top 5 of nba coaches
Wow, not being a homer but Pop should be a bit higher than 49...
same with riley ...
could someone post the complete list. The website is not loading for me here at work. Thanks!
completely true
Daly and the Bad Boys revolutionized the game by giving it some balls. Pre Bad Boys the NBA was about running and shooting jump shots. He won 2 les and came seconds from a third playing a style that no one else was doing.
Saw the list--can't say I much agree with Pop's ranking. He is easily top 30 overall (just look at his winning percentage, .675). In terms of NBA ranking, third behind Phil and Red, but ahead of Riles.
Meh, the BaseBallNews doesn't cover the NBA for , is anyone really surprised they'd get Pop wrong?
1. John Wooden, college basketball
No. 2 Vince Lombardi
2. Vince Lombardi, NFL
3. Bear Bryant, college football
4. Phil Jackson, NBA
5. Don Shula, NFL
6. Red Auerbach, NBA
7. Scotty Bowman, NHL
8. Dean Smith, college basketball
9. Casey Stengel, MLB
10. Knute Rockne, college football
11. Pat Summitt, women's college basketball
No. 13 Joe Paterno
12. Paul Brown, NFL
13. Joe Paterno, college football
14. George Halas, NFL
15. Chuck Noll, NFL
16. Bob Knight, college basketball
17. Joe Gibbs, NFL
18. Tom Landry, NFL
19. Mike Krzyzewski, college basketball
20. Bill Belichick, NFL
21. Adolph Rupp, college basketball
No. 19 Mike Krzyzewski
22. Joe McCarthy, MLB
23. Eddie Robinson, college football
24. Bobby Bowden, college football
25. John McGraw, MLB
26. Bill Walsh, NFL
27. Woody Hayes, college football
28. Connie Mack, MLB
29. Bud Wilkinson, college football
30. Pat Riley, NBA
31. Pete Newell, college basketball
No. 30 Pat Riley
32. Joe Torre, MLB
33. Bill Parcells, NFL
34. Tom Osborne, college football
35. Walter Alston, MLB
36. Bo Schembechler, college football
37. Toe Blake, NHL
38. Sparky Anderson, MLB
39. Al Arbour, NHL
40. Amos Alonzo Stagg, college football
41. Tony La Russa, MLB
No. 41 Tony La Russa
42. Geno Auriemma, women's college basketball
43. Irvin, NHL
44. Ara Parseghian, college football
45. Chuck Daly, NBA
46. Bobby Cox, MLB
47. Hank Iba, college basketball
48. Tommy Lasorda, MLB
49. Gregg Popovich, NBA
50. Herb Brooks, NHL
edit: already posted
Do you feel he was a better coach than pop? What about Riley?
Where is Curly Lambeau?
He won 6 NFL championships is a very small market, even more than Lombardi did.
Popovich is a better coach than Daly. Pop and Riles are about even.
Yeah, he wasn’t 4th best, he was the best.
People saw the two rings and thought that he was nothing special. The truth is that he took a group of players and coached them towards a style that allows them to win games.
When he joined the team, the Pistons were a high scoring team averaging 117.1 ppg and allowing 113.5 ppg, you see both those numbers dropping year over year as Chuck Daly realized that he is never going to outscore the Lakers and the Celtics, and the way to a championship was to defend them. By the time they won their 1st championship, the Pistons were averaging 106.6 ppg and allowing only 100.8 ppg, they manage to lower those even further the next year.
The bad boy Pistons were largely credited with turning a high scoring era of basketball into a complex defensive league. His defensive rotations were top notch, and the way he spaced the floor on offense, using players like Thomas, Dumars, Aguirre, Laimbeer and Vinnie Johnson was nothing short of amazing.
Coaches like Pat Riley, Popovich, and Larry Brown were able to look at their team and cater to the talents, maximizing the strength of everyone within a system, but none of them were able to do it with the talent level as Chuck Daly did. Chuck Daly made teams thought that they, too, could win a championship against the big boys with lesser talent.
Phil Jackson on the other hand, is a very good handler of egos, and he has this demeanor about him that commands the respect of the superstars. However, it is widely known that he is not as much a great coach as he was a great manager.
Pop should be in the top 20
it would be nice to hear their justification....phil arguably had MUCH more talent that Pop had to work with, as did Red...
Riley as well. Pop did the most with only 1 "great" player on this team.
I have no real problems with the list other than Ill never be a fan of Jackson until he coaches the Memphis Grizzlies or the Toronto Craptors and makes them a winner. I could coach a winning team with MJ or Kobe.
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