The field may be small, but the competition is fierce.
With several coaches around the league raising eyebrows with unexpected success - the Toronto Raptors' Dwayne Casey, the Indiana Pacers' Nate McMillan and the Houston Rockets' Mike D'Antoni, for example - on top of perennial contenders like the San Antonio Spurs Gregg Popovich, the Boston Celtics' Brad Stevens is going to have keep his foot on the gas if he is going to take home this hardware - but what will it take?