George Karl has been a decent winning regular season coach in Seattle, Milaukie, and Denver.
George Karl does not have the dynamics of being a strategic series playoff coach. Im sure his career playoff record should be around .400 for making the first round.
Gary Payton and Xavier McDaniel took George Karl Sonics to the Finals, then had George Karl fired.
Ray Allen & Sam Cassel took George Karl Bucks to the playoffs each season.
Camby, K.Mart, Melo, and Iverson took George Karl Nuggets to the playoffs each season.
Chauncey Billups took George Karl Nuggets to the western conference playoffs
The feud between Karl vs Cousin probably has a lot to do with Karl career playoff record.
I don't agree with what you are doing here...
you are basically saying Karl was carried by players who really never had a history of carrying teams deep into the playoffs..
that is not a fair analysis at all.
Before karl got to seattle they had not won 50 games since 1981, karl came to seattle in 1991, that is a 10 year drought, karls first year in seattle he won 50+ games. BTW gary payton was there before karl. and they didn't have Karl fired, after they lost to the bulls he coached two more season in which he won 57 and then won 61 games the following year..
After karl left they never touched 50 wins again.. and guess what.. Payton was still there for several years..
do you need me to tell you how similar a pattern was followed in Denver? I think you get the picture..
He had a stud in payton and kemp, went to the finals, he has not had that kind of talent since then. had he not faced jordan he probably wins a ring. In denver he just didn't have the horses to get to the finals, remember carmelo was the best player on that team right? did you really expect carmelo to get the nuggets to the finals?
I don't think your analysis of Karl is fair at all...
The feud between Karl vs Cousin probably has a lot to do with Karl career playoff record.
That doesn't make any sense, can you tell me then what was the cause of the feud between cousins and Westphal?