Stotts finishes 6th in Coach of the Year voting, Pops wins.

[SlyPokerDog]

Per the twitters.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I can see Pop winning but 6th for Stotts is an insult.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

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.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Stotts received 2 first place votes.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Is it an insult? Who were 2-5?

 

[jlprk]

I can see Pop winning but 6th for Stotts is an insult.

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.

 

[julius]

Horny should've won.

 

[maxiep]

Horny should've won.

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.

 

[Rhal]

I can see Pop winning but 6th for Stotts is an insult.

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.

 

[jlprk]

I was rooting for Horny.

I always root for Horny.

 

[BBert]

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.

 

[Prue]

At least in the voting he beat Doc...I've never understood (minus being gifted a gifted Boston team) the reason for his success

 

[blue9]

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.

 

[Prue]

lol At UBUNTU, repped

 

[magnifier661]

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.

And the Suns coach got the second best votes? Explain that then?

 

[KingSpeed]

Pop deserved it. Doesn't matter if he's been good before. He did an incredible job this season.

 

[KingSpeed]

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.

 

[Eastoff]

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.

I'm dumb!
Thanks Platypus!

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I don't see how Clifford, the Lakers coach, can be ahead of us. Sure they had terrible players, but they didn't make the playoffs.

Isn't Clifford the Bobcats' coach?

 

[Rastapopoulos]

And the Suns coach got the second best votes? Explain that then?

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.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

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.

That's pretty much right.
Popovich: Spurs were amazing.
Hornacek: Suns were so far better than anyone had a right to expect.
Thibs: it's easy to forget the incredible job he does every year, especially without Rose (who owes his rep. to Thibs anyway)
Clifford: making the Bobcats respectable? Amazing.
Casey: ditto for the Raptors.
After that it gets a bit iffy, but who cares.

The Philly coach actually deserves a shout-out because he was overachieving so much they had to ship off even more players to stop him wrecking their tanking plan.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

I think I take back what I said earlier in season about not bringing stotts back as head coach. I kind of see his game plan now. How he played the young guys for streches of games to feel them out. He wasnt a blind moron playing leonard, he was seeing how he wanted his playoff rotation, and developing young guys, something we all wanted from McMillan

 

[OneLifeToLive]

He prob should have finished ahead of both Clifford and Casey.

But what do I know?

 

[ABM]

COY - I'm Sure This Has Already Been Brought Up, But....

Stotts.....6th.....really?

Oh, and the voting media is quick to call Gregg Popovich, "Pops".

Go figure.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Re: COY - I'm Sure This Has Already Been Brought Up, But....

Also Lopez was 15th for most improved. I would have thought top 5.

 

[KingSpeed]

Re: COY - I'm Sure This Has Already Been Brought Up, But....

Here's what I think happened with COTY. Most people picked us to miss the playoffs but then when we started winning, they were like of COURSE they're good, they have Aldridge and rookie of the year (this was what Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley said). Once both guys made the All Star team, winning 54 games didn't seem like a big deal to the voters. And he finished 6th which is still to be commended. He finished in the top 20%.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Re: COY - I'm Sure This Has Already Been Brought Up, But....

Blazers beat the Rocket in game 1

 

[KingSpeed]

Re: COY - I'm Sure This Has Already Been Brought Up, But....

Blazers beat the Rocket in game 1

What does that matter? The award is voted on before playoffs.