Can we all agree that coaching is by far the most overlooked and underrated aspect of winning a chip?
If we look at the list of NBA champions in the modern era what do we find?
>Lakers and Bulls
>8 rings
>Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson
>Spurs
>5 rings
>future Hall of Fame coach Gregg Popovich
>Warriors
>Soon to be 2 rings
>would be Hall of Fame coach at this rate Steve Kerr
>all of them won coach of the year multiple times
It's also worth noting that some of the recent finals winners had GOAT coaches such as the 2006 Miami Heat with Pat Riley.
If you think a team like the Cavaliers aren't talented enough to win a chip with the team they currently have, you're delusional as fuck.
Coaching is the single most important aspect of basketball. Without it you just have a collection of players. If you have enough talent, it's possible to get lucky and win without great coaching but it's not possible to create a dynasty without one.
Look at the Blazers. Look at the Thunder. These teams objectively improved or played well above their expectations due to their coach or coaching changes.
>tell players to not miss
>Coaching
>>68323662
yes it's so simple then why do the same coaches keep winning and with vastly different teams?
>>68323132
Phil has 11 titles, not 8.
jackson has 11 rings with the bulls and lakers
also, most GOAT coaches were JUST tier or very very mediocre tier nba players
>>68324127
11 as a coach, 2 as a player I believe.
>Kerr
>2 rings
>2 COTY
Lol
>>68324127
I know this but that stretches back to when jordan first entered the league. i was speaking i terms of the last 20 years or i'd list all of riley's chips too.
>>68324301
i mean when mj won his first finals, not entered the league.
>>68323132
>Phil Jackson
>coach of the 6x champion Chicago Bulls
Some would disagree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ZaudNTSeQ
Go to 2:13.
>>68324378
yes he coached a bulls team with far less and greater talent and a lakers team with more or less talent pending era. that's testament to his greatness. and it's not just him. riley did it with a lackluster heat team. kerr took basically the same team that couldn't get out of the playoffs into the finals. pops won with two entirely different spurs teams.
and the fact is no other coaches are winning again and again.
>>68324142
take larry brown for example. he took a pistons team to the finals twice in two years coaching, won a chip and with that same or better team with a different coach they failed to even win the conference four consecutive times after.
it takes a certain threshold of talent to be relevant but after that it's all coaching.
