When is coach of the year and the like announced? His will be very interesting and tight between Stevens, Stotts, and Kerr. I doubt Pop gets many votes but he is very deserving of the award in my book for what he's done with that Spurs team.
I think you are exactly right as to why these guys are ahead of Brad. I disagree that this should be the metric though. Stevens was already built in to the O/U #. Stevens has done more with less, imo.Why you're seeing a lot of Stotts, Clifford and Pop, and not so much Brad Stevens:
This is how much each team exceeded their Vegas win totals (taken from the Westgate, on 10/26/15). I expect this is a pretty good proxy for the voting, but I haven't looked at past years.
This is one of those metrics that sounds good but doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. That said, Stotts, Pop, Clifford all excellent candidates, probably more deserving than Brad.I think you are exactly right as to why these guys are ahead of Brad. I disagree that this should be the metric though. Stevens was already built in to the O/U #. Stevens has done more with less, imo.
Oh, I agree it's a bit inane, but the alternative, of just giving Pop the award every year is also a bit silly.This is one of those metrics that sounds good but doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. That said, Stotts, Pop, Clifford all excellent candidates, probably more deserving than Brad.
Sure, but I mean, shouldn't Belichick win his respective award most years? When Auerbach had his decades-long reign of terror over the league, shouldn't he have won it much more than the rest of the field combined?Oh, I agree it's a bit inane, but the alternative, of just giving Pop the award every year is also a bit silly.
Not without an upgrade in talent he won't. He's gotten plenty of due this year with reputation around the league but without some playoff success there is a ceiling for credit a coach gets with first and even second round exits.Stevens will get his due in the next year or two.
Between him causing trouble in Chicago's locker room, Butler having the most value over Noah and Rose (all three can't be there again after the conflicts this year), and the soft unsubstantiated trade rumors being substantiated it isn't unreasonable to feel that he is available.Why is Butler "available"?
Because he can be a real asshole and Chicago doesn't have anyone to smooth over the rough edges in the locker room. And apparently the new coach doesn't want to deal with it. Boston has the advantage of having one of his friends on the roster and a pretty strong locker room culture for him to be part of. So let's all hope for a lottery victory and an Ingram for Butler trade on draft night.Why is Butler "available"?
With Dave Joerger's firing this morning, Brad is now 9th.With Frank Vogel's non-renewal, Brad Stevens is now the 10th longest tenured coach in the Association. Only five coaches (Pop, Spoelstra, Carlisle, Casey and Stotts) have more than three years of tenure with their current team.
I would vote for Joerger as coach of the year simply because of what he did to reach the playoffs in what is still the toughest conference in the NBA. He used a record 28 players to do so and made it despite injuries to their stars. How Memphis didn't lock this guy up long-term is beyond me. The Kings could do far worse than to bring him in. And I post this knowing that if SamRayNot sees it, he is going to laugh and then make an amusing follow-on post.With Dave Joerger's firing this morning, Brad is now 9th.