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How is Red Auerbach not on that list?
His first 9 years in the league, he only managed a playoff record above .500 one time after 8 different playoff runs. The first three years, he coached in the BAA so those playoff W% stats may not be accounted for in this chart (edit: those were probably included, which is why he's not on this list). The next year (1956) when the Celtics began their long championship run, his Playoff W% for that run was 66.1%. This would be his final 10 years in the league and final 9 playoff runs.
Also, another thing to keep in mind, especially when talking about the older era coaches, the playoffs were significantly shorter. Auerbach managed a championship with 8 wins a total of 7 times. He had another championship with 11 wins and one with only 7 wins (not sure what the context was here, maybe he was out for a game? that was 1956). Even through all the deep playoff runs, he just averaged 12 playoff games played during that last 10 year portion of his career.
The modern coaches on this list need 16 total wins to win a championship, double that of a coach from Auerbach's time. This means more of a sample size, and more potential games against teams that may not be as good in the earlier rounds (a clean sweep will equal 4 wins and zero losses, even a 5 or 6 game series win will give you a minimum of a 67% WIN% through those 5-6 games).
Despite all of the above written, if you counted just his NBA coaching statistics (and discounted the BAA stats), his playoff W% would be .603. So, yeah, that's good enough to kick off Chuck Daly.
Fun fact: the top two playoff coaches (winning percentage in the playoffs) all time (Min 100 playoff games) are:
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If/When the Warriors ever start to lose and bring Kerr's % down, it will elevate Blatt to the "Best playoff coach ever".
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This doesn't make any sense. David Blatt played just 20 playoff games in the NBA thus far, therefore he technically shouldn't even be on this list (by your own criteria).
Ty Lue himself is at 61 games played. So, he wouldn't be on there either (neither would Steve Kerr). I'm too lazy to go through the rest
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