The greats fall, to me, into a few categories,
1) the legends who pulled off great upsets in the biggest games, like Belichick and Parcells, Al McGuire, Bobby Knight
2) less admired coaches who were handed great teams and lost games they never should have like Wooden, Phil Jackson Scott Bowman, Dean Smith
3) the NBA has patented a category of “genius” that is given to one who has never won a darn thing, even with great talent such as D’Antoni, Karl, Thibodeau....