No suprise here.....Hubie Brown wins coach of the Year award.......

I really felt Sloan should've won(just take a look at that roster he had). But Hubie definitely deserves it.

 

Nah, nobody expected the Grizz to make it above the 8th seed, let alone the playoffs...and they did.

Nobody expected the Jazz to make it to the playoffs...and they didn't.

Personally my voting would be:

1. Hubie
2. Bzdelik
3. SVG
4. Carlisle
5. Lawrence Frank
6. Phil Jackson
7. Sloan

 

I think Sloan was robbed. Many were saying the Jazz would be in the running for worst record in league history. Sure, Hubie made it to the playoffs but he had way more talent. He did a great job, but I definitely would have placed him second.

 

BULLSH*T! Brown was good, but no one touched what Sloan did this year. No one else could take AK47 and a bunch of NBDLers to that record, period. Sloan got SO robbed...

 

I know Sloan deserved it.....but seriously....Hubie took the GRIZZ to the playoffs, a team that probably should have been shuttered rather than moved. But I just can't get over my rabid and unprofessional hatred of the Jazz. I. just. can't. (Capt. Kirk moment). And besides guys, 420 has just kicked in....

 

If I had a vote, it would have gone to Terry Porter. His team was supposed to be the worst in the league and he's a rookie coach and they damn near got homecourt advantage. With TJ back and cap room to get a free agent, expect better things next season.

 

Honestly I dont see how u can have frank,jackson (of all people) and carlisle over sloan....SVG i may give you, but he had more talent on that Miami team than Sloan does in utah. As much as I depised the jazz, I've always liked Sloan as a coach he has always been a very smart and hard working coach.

But Hubie did wonders too this year, hopefully sloan will get some other coaching award someday

 

Give any other coach that crappy roster Utah has, and that team wins 20 games. Heck, any coach that can make that team win 30 in the western conference is a COY candidate. It was a miracle that team actually had a winning record.

And about making the playoffs, Utah in the East would've probably been a 4 seed.

 

Give any coach that Grizzlies roster, and they win 20 games too - what the Grizzlies did with Hubie Brown this year is remarkable.

Getting a team no one expects to win is tough, but not nearly as tough as getting a traditionally dead franchise into the playoffs.

 

And so would Houston and Denver and Portland...

I'm not taking anything away from Sloan and I don't dislike the guy, but these awards are based on achievement. Remember the ROY race last year? Which player lead his team to the playoffs? (You can't argue with LeBron this year; he's the soon-to-be best player ever at this rate)

I forgot about Porter; I remember starting a thread before the season started wondering what the **** from Milwaukee in what was supposed to be a low-budget, cost-cutting season. Now if I were to consdier the East/West bias, then I just might put Sloan above any East coach. No one can say that 'any other coach' would be better or worse than Sloan. Sure there are some bad coaches out there and yes, Sloan is an exceptional coach, but this is not based on what nobody expected.

When people try to argue that the COY award goes to the coach that led his team most unexpectedly, THAT is bull****. You can assume but you can't be accurate to say that Sloan was going to have an awful year and ended up with a 'pretty decent' season, just missing the playoffs.

All arguments for Sloan are pathetic. How in the world can ANYONE pick Sloan over Brown? If Sloan did such an amazing job, y'all are saying that even you picked Sloan and the Jazz to be in last place in the conference. What was expected of Brown? MAYBE 40 wins and MAYBE the 8th seed.

Where's Memphis?

 

SVG....


Anyways, they had a nice season. Too bad their post season won't be anything like their season.

 

id give it to sloan any day over hubie. what sloan did this year was amazing, and he wont get any recognition for it. oh well. stupid jazz.

 

If I had the time I would put the Grizz roster straight up against the Jazz roster, wit the exception of AK and Mat Harpring no one comes close to the talent on the grizz. Dont get me wrong Raja Bell and Carlos Arojo strikes the fear in my heart. . .

The Grizz have a 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, two 7th and an 11th pick from the draft. Any competent coach in the counrty should be able to get these guys to win. ANY COMPETENT COACH. Hubbie just got them on the same page and playing hard. My hats off to him, but you could see from last year that the Grizz were going to be pretty good, and there was playoff talk regarding them.

Now The highest pick the Jazz have. . . . Tom "my leg just fell off" Gugliotta was picked 6th. The next closest was Matt Harpring, who didnt play 2/3 of the season. There was no talk of the Jazz making the playoffs or even posting a winning record, but they did and it was because of Jerry Sloan. Thats fine though I dont think he really cares if he won the award, he is probably still pissed that his team didnt make the playoffs.

I still think this is a travisty, and to those that think you have to make the playoffs to win the coach of the year, just look at Doc Rivers.

 

That's funny, I could have sworn Sloan quit his playing career in 1976.

 

Example 1A that it doesn't take a great coach or a great coaching job to get to a winning record.

Getting guys no one things will be good to play hard and win a few games is no small feat - but taking a team that has done nothing, and nearly getting home-court while playing in the Midwest division - that takes a masterful job.

 

A good case is that the Jazz were 10 million below the cap this year and they ate up Glen Rice's contract. Next year, they'll have a cap space of 25+ million. There's no way the Jazz should've gotten this close in victories let alone the playoffs.

Sloan is a worthy candidate, but what Hubie did changed expectations and exceeded them.

 

Shoulda been our uncle...

 

Uh, do me a favor and take a look at the Jazz's roster. Now tell me how many of their players would make it into the Grizzlies 10-man rotation, then consider that Harpring was gone for half the year. Hubie took a team that's had talent for awhile and got it to overachieve, Sloan took a trash heap and got it to win more games than it lost.

And yes, Sloan did this in the WEST, yet people think SVG and Porter deserve the honor for getting WORSE OR EQUAL records in the LEASTERN conference? Come one people...

 

I don't like Sloan much because SOMEbody had to teach Flopton and Strong-Arm Malone their "foul" ways; but he deserved the award.

Still, you can't much fault what Hubie did with the Grizzlies.