Horry: Rudy T was the greatest NBA coach

Thanks for posting that here. A great article indeed.

 

...and Phil Jackson was the greatest Bulls' coach,

...and Popovich the greatest Spurs coach.

 

Steve was better than Baron Davis though.

I'll always love Steve for his heart, and his visible passion for the game when he played. He also made that time period after Hakeem more bearable.

 

Horry is a barometer on many topics.

The players he played with...
The coaches he played for...
The championships he won...

Dude had a well rounded, unique career.

 

Well said. Everything about his career was exceptional except his regular season stats.

Played for the 2 most successful coaches in the modern era.
Won the most championships outside of the 60's Celtics.
Played in the second most playoff games in history
Top 10 in playoff 3's
Played with the 3 top big men in the modern era
Played with the 2 of the top 5 SG's in history
Most steals in an NBA Finals game with 7
Most 3 pointers in playoffs without a miss with 7
Top 10 in playoff stats in 6 categories.

 

Greatest? Nah

Top 5? Definitely. You'd have to have a very strong case of evidence to say it was better than phil

 

Rudy has won more with less. Phil hasn't done that well with a mediocre squads.

 

Horry became clutch with houston first not with phil

 

What I love about this article - and Horry's comments on the excellent NBATV "Clutch City" doc - is that he calls out phil jackson for his arrogance. He even explicitly says so in the documentary. I don't get much of an impression that jackson is high on Horry's Christmas card list.

Obviously jackson is the greatest NBA coach of all time. I can't stand him, but I won't deny that. You don't win 11 titles for nothing. But I wonder if other players also feel that his teams won those rings because of the players he had, rather than his "brilliant" coaching?

 

I just remember how creative and exciting Yao played in his rookie season under Rudy T...

 

yep, i do too.

i like jvg, but i in a hindsight believe he developed and utilized yao in a wrong way. making him bulk up was a big mistake and probably was a big reason for his multiple injuries (along with some bad luck). jvg didnt realize that yao aint shaq and no one is like shaq.

i dont think its a big stretch to say, that, had rudy stayed, the rockets might win one more title or at least would have achieved more.

 

Yes, rudy coached yao differently. He let yao be more than a pure post player

 

rudy was a nba big man in his own right. he probably had better ideas than most coaches in terms of how to develop yao. jvg otoh was pat riley's protege and only knew one way to use a center aka patrick ewing. that, plus probably the fact that shaq was so dominant in the post right back then...

 

Robert Horry is at the Houston Premier Outlets right now.

 

He keeps it real !

 

No bump.

 

too late pal

 

No one:

Non-99'ers tryna act like they're in our class.



@tinman

 

We're purer than everybody on the planet

 

Agreed 100%. The word "virgin" comes to mind whenever I hear someone bragging about what year they signed up.