[armchairgmParticipant]

Who are your Top 10 Favorite (Not Best) Coaches of All Time at any level?
1. Phil Jackson
2. Pat Riley
3. Dean Smith
4. Vance Walberg
5. John Wooden
6. Jerry Tarkanian
7. Steve Kerr
8. Mike D’Antoni
9. John Callipari
10. Steve Fisher

[armchairgmParticipant]

I actually would take Mike D’Antoni out and replace him with Jim Boeheim.

[ZouldiersParticipant]

Phil Jackson
Pat Riley
Erik Spoelstra
Rudy T
Nick Nurse
Juwan Howard
Gregg Poppovich
Don Nelson
Bill Belichick
Pete Carroll

[Deathly HollowsParticipant]

1.Larry Brown
2.Zeljko Obradovic
3.Tony Bennett
4.Bob Knight
5.Gregg Popovich
6.Jim Calhoun
7.Ettore Messina
8.Nate McMillan
9.Rick Carlisle
10.Jerry Sloan

[Scrooge McDuckParticipant]

Greg Marshall, Wichita St
Shaka Smart, VCU
Nick Nurse, Raptors
Mike Rice, Jr, Rutgers. On a side his also does commentary for Blazers games and is very entertaining
Avery Johnson, Mavericks
Tony Bennett
Nate McMillan
Poppovich
Brad Stevens
Lute Olsen

[sniperParticipant]

1. Pop
2. K.C. Jones
(These just correspond to my two all-time favorite teams).
3. Bobby Knight (as a teenager I liked his whole, “I want to win so bad I might kill a man with my bare hands” shtick, but later I realized he’s kind of a dick).
4. Phil Jackson (in my 20s I liked his whole, “I’m a Buddhist, I make my players read books” shtick, but later I realized he’s kind of a dick).
5. Don Nelson
6. Larry Brown
(I liked them both for that whole “I’m a mad genius, the Van Gogh of basketball” thing).
7. Steve Kerr (the most Pop-like of all Pop disciples).
8. Larry Bird (my favorite player so of course I loved him as a coach).
9. Doc Rivers (just seems like a really good guy).
10. Paul Westhead (gets the nod over D’Antoni because he was D’Antoni first and on steroids, and that Loyola-Marymount year).

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