How One Tactic RUINED The Career Of The NBA’s Best Coach

[@slimypickle19]

Nelson as a coach was absolutely brilliant at working with what he had, which was with decent teams & making them overachieve. If anything, maybe Nelson as a GM should be criticized more. In hindsight, his teams had too many perimeter scorers & not enough 3 & D guys.

[@GOATAuthority]

Truth! He had the ability to coach a way better defense as we saw from the Bucks days... in '87 they took the Cs to Game 7

[@johnbradbury8610]

he also didn't understand that defense leads to scoring opportunities. Regardless of the sport you need defense to win the championship. Great offense will get you to the playoffs but you will always come up short.

[@jamalwalker04]

He and D'antoni always seemed to gloss over defense. ​@@johnbradbury8610

[@17thN.O]

Don Nelson was a really good tactical head coach. But he was the basketball equivalent of Marty Schottenheimer with winning a lot of games but being willing to be able to adjust especially for playoff matchups.

[@Logholders]

Always been confused by the Marty narrative. The year following ‘the drive’ his RB fumbled the ball at the goaline to tie the score… leading the Broncos to win again. With the Chargers his kicker missed 2 FG’s back to back years. Someone also intercepted the ball in the end zone and then fumbled upon returning it.l Think it would have sealed the game if he just kneeled down. Montana got hurt the one year in the AFC championship game. How are those bad mistakes on his part? A lot of his losses are like if Don Nelson was losing every playoff series at the buzzer.

[@johnbradbury8610]

9:47 "we were no longer in the 80s and violent defensive teams were on the rise?'" The 80s was one of the toughest defensive decades in NBA history.

[@Tsweeney12584]

And the Knicks? Not the team that they literally changed the rules to neuter to let Jordan succeed in the Bad Boy Pistons?

[@aldouscoroza]

If Nelly Ball happened in Boston if he became HC in the 90s - 00s it wiuld be like Seeing Showtime again, And Pierce and Walker would have The Right Help in a Star Big man to Partner with

[@bookaufman9643]

You're also kind of leaving out the fact that a lot of his players really disliked him. You can see a lot of these former players on different podcast talking about how they felt about Don Nelson.

[@jefffuhr2393]

A stellar video on Nelson-and the game itself. As a Mavs fan, you added lots of depth in context to the Dallas' 2006 #1 seed first round exit debacle.

[@redmustangredmustang]

I just remember as a Mavs fan the Mavs in the early 2000's just could not get over the hump when it came to the Kings knifing their way inside. They did not have a good big man to stop and they kept getting booted from the play offs because of that.

[@Kompjuterastas-f3b]

This coach thought Jasikevičius was a shooting guard, he had to explain he's a point guard, a playmaker. He put Šaras on the bench forever. The same player who nearly beat Team USA in the Olympic semi-final in 2000 and did beat the Americans in 2004 in the group stage.

[@springfieldbearpatrol2937]

I watched my share of Nellie ball in the 90s and it was pretty exciting. People say "ahead of it's time" and maybe that's true but they really had no starter-level bigs during Run-TMC, and that was a tough situation. All yhe other teams in the West had big and competent front courts (Lakers, Blazers, Suns, Spurs, etc). The Richmond for Owens trade was based on that weakness - trade dome simply because Owens was a couple of inches taller? he was not really the kind of big they needed. Things were turning around with Spewell and Webber but Nelson and Webber had a crazy tiff (kind of glossed over in the video - although good video overall). That situation did not work out well for anyone. I'd say the Run-TMC era was the best and they just needed some creative GM work to land a legit big.

[@AMACHiiBiong]

This was a basketball history treat 🙏 That Dirk-Nash-Finley era in Dallas was unforgettable

[@TetFeMal]

Nelly and then D'antoni. The only times in my life I thought basketball was stretegic. Great memories in the 2000s.

[@cjlindallas7749]

I grew up during the whole Don Nelson tenure in Dallas. I remember thinking it was a fun waste of time as a kid. Without Nelson there wouldn't have been Avery Johnson giving Dirk the toughness he needed. It all ended well for the team. Very grateful for the foundation Don, Donny, and Mark laid!

[@Saed11109]

Don Nelson style is basically todays NBA.. He was way ahead of his time. Dirk draft day trade is probably top 3 greatest draft day trade ever.

[@RE1GN_BLOOD]

Fantastic video. Subbed

[@suiken3149]

Should have been the Celtics coach during the Pitino and ML Carr years

[@GOATAuthority]

He actually spoke about kind of being offered the job (/ asked if he was interested) for the Celtics in '83 but said he was loyal to the Bucks so KC Jones got the gig... NBA alternate realities are actually wild

[@aldouscoroza]

Facts what if Don Nelson became Boston Head Coach in the 90s - Mid 00s

[@bradbruhn9586]

This video should have included a "Do not watch video without wearing a Fish Tie" Warning 😂

[@Jerry-p3v]

Don Nelson shot free throws like a kid at a carnival game!

[@earl.c]

Note on the We Believe Warriors: they won all 4 regular season meetings against the Mavs

[@ianreed9638]

yeah.. mavs can avoid them in the playoffs in the last 2 games of the season if they manage to win 1 game but avery decided to sit out Dirk on that last 2 regular season games against GSW and it backfired badly..

[@DrJohnnyJ]

You don't think that Marques Johnson, first team all-NBA, was a dominant forward? You have high standards.

[@DeeNice681]

He never saw Marques Johnson play!

[@russtin1]

Bob Lanier wasn’t a dominant center?

[@bradbruhn9586]

Bob Lanier was a Terrific Big man, however he was on the downside of his Career when he went to Milwaukee. The Bucks also had Jack Sikma, another "forgotten" legend in the 1986-87 season.

[@bandjolyn]

Life-long Mavs fan here. Nellie ball was so much fun to watch. Made Dirk, DIRK. If Dirk doesn't go down in 03, we win everything.

[@ianreed9638]

so basically his team drafted 2 players that change the league and noone saw it coming..

[@bookaufman9643]

The spur teams were not using a traditional power lineup. Quite often they would get Timmy to play the four.

[@samueladorno478]

He broke up the best trio at the time, instead of complementing them with good defenders he decided to trade Richmond to get what was his name...

[@MiuJeans]

2:20 You could call him a PF, but Pau Gasol kinda fits here as well.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Longtime GSW fan who saw Don Nelson in person. His style foreshadowed the style of Steve Kerr. Both did not use tall 🦒 starting centers well. In the case of Kerr, he does not have many. Pat Riley, KC Jones, Phil Jackson were better head coaches than Don Nelson.

[@jubilee3180]

The #8 warriors bearing the 67 win #1 mavericks was truly shocking. All they did was attack the rim non stop. The Jazz actually had a shotblocker however, Kirilinko had like a million blocks in the first game, and it was obvious the Warriors were a one trick pony.

[@blubastud]

0:46 Oh, that's why he drafted Chris Mullins...

[@AngelRodriguezFritoLay]

Run TMC was incredible

[@bumblebity2902]

He was just ahead of the time and that's his undone against heavy D teams like Spurs and his teams itself lack D

[@williammacdonald9271]

His mess with Chris Webber and Later Patrick Ewing, he was too infatuated with small ball.

[@uncletony6210]

Jack Sikma was not a dominate center but easily one of the six or seven best in the league.

[@jonathandasilva5749]

This really does not answer did he take teams as far as he could having vastly improved them. Maybe the Bucks who led their division OK. Did these teams have the talent to go further? Or did he take them to places they would not have under most coaches? Did they have a Duncan, Shaq, Michael etc?

[@Pray4success-b3r]

Ruined his career?? thats a bit extreme

[@JigsawBell]

Best coach? Not even close.

[@bradbruhn9586]

I would say Aurbach, Riley, Jackson, Popovich and Kerr are the only coaches you can make a case for "Greatest Coach of All Time. Nelson is definitely top 15, easily.

[@collierbeardsley1013]

What tactic? Draining 5ths of Jack?

[@thomaschristopher8593]

1:08 shot put free throw.

[@ChuckConti]

A decent video, but you never prove your point that it was Nelson's "ego" that kept him getting a chip. It's pretty rude, actually. You tell me that his ideas eventually succeeded, with other coaches later on, but don't tell why it worked with them but not Nelson.

[@robkitchen5344]

Rookie of the year and cry baby of the league Webber was over rated and Warriors got robbed of 3 1sr rounders and drafted Webber was the turning point to 2 decades of loser ball

[@scottl.1568]

Whut 🤨

[@Iamhungey]

Best? Not really.