Bill Fitch

Bill Fitch (born the May 19th 1934 with Davenport, Iowa) is a formative trainer of NBA which had success in the construction of teams that it carried out in play-offs. Before integrating the professional rows, it involved in NCAA with the Université of Minnesota, with Bowling Green State University, with the Université of North Dakota and with Coe College. The teams of Fitch qualified themselves twice for tournament NCAA.

Fitch was a trainer and instructor with U.S. Marine Body, a fact that Larry Bird reports in her book Drive: The Story off My Life like one of the reasons of its strong ethics of work.

During its 25 years of coaching professional, Fitch was especially engaged with an aim of making progress of the teams in failure. Thus, in 2004, Fitch was classified with the fifth rank of the trainers of many victories (944) in history NBA, but also with the second rank with the number of defeats (1106) behind Lenny Wilkens. It was crowned as trainer NBA of the year twice and it carried out Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish and the remainder of the Boston Celtics with Finales NBA 1981, demolishing the Houston Rockets 4 victories with 2. Leaving Boston, Fitch became trainer of Rockets where it led a team made up of Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson to Finales NBA 1986 when they made beaten by Celtics de Bird, 4 victories with 2.

Fitch also involved the Cleveland Cavaliers, the New Jersey Nets and the Los Angeles Clippers. At the time of her first season with the Riders, the team lost her the first 15 meetings. During this series of defeats, a member of the personnel of safety refused the access to the room to him because Fitch did not have its accreditation. He answered the guard: " Who would like to admit to involve this team? " and it was authorized to enter the room.

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