Pop wins the award with 59 1st-place votes (out of 124) and 380 points. Jeff Hornacek placed 2nd, w/37 1st-place votes and 339 points. Thibodeau placed third, followed by Clifford, Casey, Stotts, Rivers, Brooks, MJackson and Kidd.
Sounds sensible to me. We finished in a 3-way tie for 5th, 6th, and 7th best record in the NBA. So he came in 6th.
This. What Pops did this year was built on a system he has established over 18 years. Hornacek came into a team that was built to achieve 25% of the ping pong balls in the NBA Draft Lottery. He got them to almost make the playoffs, all without an All Star. There is no one who got more from less, and he did it on the fly.
Its a huge insult but what can you expect when the Media, who really drives these awards, were doing nothing but calling our first half an aberration and then talking up PHX/Chicago/PoP(who has deserved to win this award for 4 straight years) and every other coach who got hot the second half of the year.
Stotts is still number 3 in my book! Freeland getting injured, LaMarcus nursing the sore hammy, and then the back injury, cost the Blazers wins, which cost Stotts votes. I think he and his assistants have done a great job. And Olshey even a better one getting him more players to work with.
At least in the voting he beat Doc...I've never understood (minus being gifted a gifted Boston team) the reason for his success
Then you don't understand UBUNTU! Naw, I'm with ya. He's an okay coach, but his success has been due to his rosters rather than his coaching ability.
Spurs had many injuries. He rested his stars a lot. No one played more than 30 mins. And he team still won 62 games. After the heartbreaker in Finals, most people thought they were done.
Seriously? Everybody thought the Suns would compete for worst record in the league. Nobody thought that about the Blazers. Plus the Suns pretty much owned us.
