Beilein is, though, first and foremost, his own man. It accounts for his defiant rise through the coaching ranks, from a nobody to a somebody. It also accounts for a high degree of pride, or perhaps ego, and the staunch belief that his way works as long as everyone around him subscribes to it. And there, more than anywhere else, is most likely where you will find the fatal flaw of Beilein’s dalliance in the NBA.