Comments on: Best Offensive and Defensive Coaches

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:14:48 +0000

It's interesting that Russell only gets credited for the massive improvement in Boston's defense, but gets no blame for destroying their offense at the same time.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:29:03 +0000

Adelman is awfully low. Morey was saying that he is an underrated defensive coach, who coached some of the best defenses of all time.

By: Rolando

Rolando — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:35:24 +0000

BTW, that value (ORtg - DRtg) correlates absurdly (embarrassingly?) closely with winning pct. R^2 = 0.945.

By: Jason J

Jason J — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:32:44 +0000

#10 - Good call! That's not a bad ranking.

By: Rolando

Rolando — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:53:35 +0000

Following Matt's comment, I took that last table and subtracted defensive rating from offensive rating, then ranked them. Sure looks like a better way to rank coaches than by # of wins!

1-10: Jackson, Popovich, Jones, Cunningham, Auerbach, Riley, Costello, Sloan, Adelman, Karl
11-20: Daly, Sharman, Heinsohn, J. Van Gundy, Carlisle, Fratello, Rivers, Saunders, Nelson, Kundla
21-30: Westphal, Cervi, Collins, Larry Brown, D'Antoni, Hannum, Schaus, Fitzsimmons, Tomjanovich, Holzman
31-40: MacLeod, Ramsay, Harris, Moe, Albeck, Wilkens, Skiles, Seymour, Russell, Attles
41-50: Bob Hill, Gentry, Brian Hill, Guerin, Scott, McMillan, Layden, McMahon, Motta, Cheeks
51-60: Van Breda Kolff, Hubie Brown, Lynam, Silas, O'Brien, Bickerstaff, Shue, Fitch, Dunleavy, Ford
61-69: Phil Johnson, Carlesimo, Jordan, Loughery, Guokas, Weiss, Chaney, Nissalke, Unseld

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:39:17 +0000

So Phil has the best overall rating with offense and defense combined?

By: ken park

ken park — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:37:36 +0000

Article that discusses the D'Antoni and Nash issue ... interesting.

http://3gotgame.com/kshiz/archives/1296

By: JTaylor21

JTaylor21 — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:10:32 +0000

He didn't make his defense better that's for damn sure.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:12:31 +0000

Oh yeah, Walter, Nash was the only reason D'Antoni suffered defensively.

By: Walter

Walter — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:04:29 +0000

Interesing observation...

Mike D'Antoni is #1 on the list for offense with a rating 5.14... however sort the legends table by defense and Mike D'Antoni is the worst on the list with a score of 3.52

It's a really good thing that MVP voters completely forgot that basketball has two sides of the court when they voted Nash as MVP twice. The completely ignored the impact he had on placing his coach on the top of the worst defenses list.