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Professional or all of Basketball? On the NBA level Pop is at or close to the top, but college ball has had a lot of huge influences like Dean Smith, JimmyV, Coach K, Knight, etc. Hard to judge which is more influential.
Pop did not create the motion offense and neither did Phil create the triangle.
Professional or all of Basketball? On the NBA level Pop is at or close to the top, but college ball has had a lot of huge influences like Dean Smith, JimmyV, Coach K, Knight, etc. Hard to judge which is more influential.
Who started using the pnr and pnl heavily? Curious to know. I knos it was in college ball..but whoever was the first guy to use it heavily is up there.
in Asia, that would be Coach Ron Jacobs
Jerry Sloan, that guy has influenced arguably the most influential coach in the modern NBA.
Pop was probably born too late to get that le.
My vote would go to Adolph Rupp (innovated the fast break, set plays, and defensive trapping).
College basketball coaches were also "better" than professional basketball coaches in those days, since pro basketball was pretty much an amateur affair. The money and prestige were in the college game until the 70's really. Wooden was more revered than Auerbach in the 60's and 70's, for instance.
Given today's game I'd go with Pete Carril and his predecessors from the '30s Cappon and Sarachek.
LOL... I loved Doug Moe. Still do.
Maybe not the greatest coach, but crazy as a house rat and loads of fun to watch.
People talk about Mike D'Antoni's Suns, like he was an innovator. , Doug Moe was Mike D'Antoni before D'Antoni was. They both even played their pro ball in Italy.
As much as the strategical mind of a coach matters, I think personality & approach are often way underrated... players who are fiercely loyal to their coaches are always going to be in better spots than those who aren't. Look at a guy like Wooden: he handled two very unique personalities in Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton, and both guys are still his fiercely loyal and reverent to this day regarding him. Phil had to deal with Jordan & Kobe, neither an easy personality. Pop is one of the most interesting cases though-- Wooden & Jackson both cultivated the Calm Wise Man persona, but Pop usually is closer to a screaming drill sargeant... you'd think that might cause some issues ( and it has with lesser players), but Tim, D Rob, Manu, & Tony have all been fiercely loyal to him for a long time...
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