RA doesn't deserve coach the year award. Our success is due to great roster moves. aka.. Morey should win GM of the Year.
Mike Brown 87008 - 40% Jerry Sloan 21352 - 10% Stan Van Gundy 33790 - 16% Nate McMillan 19604 - 9% Rick Adelman 27763 - 13% Larry Brown 26688 - 12% Thats silly.
Coach of the year and virtually every other yearly award across all sports is a complete sham. Mike Brown had mediocre Cavs teams until his GM gives him some players and LeBron decided to go to another level and make them elite. Coach of the Year...sure... Honestly, IMO it should go to Scottie Brooks. That team was absolutely horrid when he took over. Theyr'e still not great, but they are leaps and bounds better now than they were. Then you have MVP awards. Kobe was the best player in the league for years, then he gets handed a great team and..OMG KOBE MVP!
RA deserved it last season more than anyone else. mike brown doesn't deserve anything for coaching. i can coach LBJ to at least 50 wins. he has a great team, of course they're winning. i think brown, RA, pop, sloan all had to deal with a lot of adversity and have guided they're teams very well this season.
I can understand a case for Jerry Sloan. I can understand a case for Nate McMillan. I can even understand a case for Pop. But I cannot, for the life of me understand a case for Mike Brown. Cleveland's offense is pretty unbearable to watch. They have 3 plays: 1) Pick and roll with Lebron and Big Z 2) Pick and roll with Lebron and Varejao 3) Iso Lebron ANYONE WHO HAS EVER HEARD OR BASKETBALL COULD ORCHESTRATE THAT OFFENSE!!! Coaching Lebron James has to be the easiest job in the history of the NBA. He is the most physical freak of a human that I have ever seen. He is motivated to the tune of KG. He wants to kill everyone in the arena between the buzzers. AND he is one of the most likable athletes to ever play a sport. Bias alert: I am still in shock that Rick Adelman has not received more mention for this award. How many games have we had a full roster? 2? 3? We lose one of the biggest stars in the game? We trade away our starting PG? We miss something like 30 combined games from 2 of the premier perimeter defenders in the league? Surely the team described in a cellar dweller and lottery bound...BUT NO! The Rockets are the 4 seed, soon to be 3 seed in the cut-throat western conference. Considering that, plus the fact that almost every team now fronts Yao and we have had to completely rewrite our playbook because of it, I am just in shock that Rick Adelman is left out of this discussion so often. RocketDoc
mcmillan - yah he has put a young squad in a good position, they're going to be really good, especially after this years playoff experience
The guy whose team had yet to beat a playoff team on the road prior to this week? Good one. Anyone that said Adelman shouldn't win it, post your more deserving candidate. I'm going to assume your first try was a joke, Aemon, so you go ahead and post yours too.
Reggie Miller furiously defending Adelman's chances of being the coach of the year. Mike Fertelo does not seem to agree. Reggie Miller defending us
don't you agree on what I said? Jerry Sloan has done a wonderful job in dragging a terrible team to the playoffs, he will definitely die in the first round though.
I agree on the second half of what you said, they do will definitely die in the first round due to their poor record on the road. But I think you can't say a team with D-Will, Boozer and AK-47 a terrible team any way.
It would be a shame to vote for RA and then we get tossed again in the first round and he gets fired! I wouldn't vote for him until we got out of the 2ND ROUND! Because although the team has excelled beyond expectations without Tmac, RA still makes a lot of bonehead decisions that I don't agree with. But he has to get some credit for our success too. So the playoffs will be where I finally determine and give him a true grade for this year!
I am not sure I would classify anything that TENTH WINNINGEST COACH OF ALL TIME does as 'bonehead.' Rick deserves mention in this conversation for the hoops he has jumped through with our rotation alone. Not to mention we do not have a dominant scorer that can handle the ball at the end of the game. This is where we miss healthy TMac. Who is going to take our last shot? I have 100% faith in Yao to hit a big shot at the end of the game (a la Blazers game at the start of the season), but getting the ball into the post isn't always practical in the closing seconds of a game. Rick has managed this deficit as well as our health deficit and taken this team to a level I haven't seen in over a decade. REMEMBER: The post TMac team is sooooo much different than the Rockets of January. We have only lost to ONE non-playoff team since the allstar break (the Suns). I doubt many teams, if any, can claim that. RocketDoc
PHIL JACKSON. Lakers will have 65-66 wins in a conference with teams like Denver, Houston, San Antonio, Portland, Utah, Dallas, New Orleans... They have an incredible record against these teams, and has to do with how well he prepares every single game. He's very good studying different teams and preparing games, this is the most meritorious work in a coach, especially if repeated too often. I think Mike Brown has been a little lucky, but you also must recognize his job. 65-66 wins is not a fortuity.
