Phil Jackson as a coach

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Not to say Dale Davis isnt a good player but he has just as much skill as Shaq just not the size.

Shaq said it best, no coach coaches an NBA champion without having good players. Phil has a great scheme on offense and defense and more importantly gets his players to "execute" within that system. A coaches job is to motivate his players to play at their best and sell them on adopting team goals instead of personal goals if you will. I certainly think he's accomplished this with Kobe and Shaq. He seems to handle substitutions and game situations very well. He gets quality minutes out of his "role players." The Bulls played great defense and the Lakers play great defense now. In short his record speaks for itself as I don't think it's right to even question his greatness as a coach i.e. unless you're Red Auerbach [img]/images/smile.gif[/img].