George Karl wins coach of the year

[Hambombs]

I think Mark Jackson and Tom Thibodeau deserved it IMO.

 

[huskers1217]

George Karl is still a piece of shit.

 

[Big Red Slugs]

Most Meaningless Award in Basketball.

How many times have we seen a COY get fired within a couple seasons?

How many times have the actual best coaches (Phil Jackson, Gregg Popovich, and Doc Rivers) won the award? 4 times in 51 seasons between the three.

 

[piss-tons]

COY= Coach of the team that did better than was expected. It has nothing to do with the coach or else Pop and Phil would have a lot more COYs, but because they were expected to do great they could never win it.

 

[shitsho]

Wow!! So Karl has not only snowed the Denver ownership and fanbase but he has duped the COY voters as well. Thibs, Hollins, or Mark Jackson should have won it.

 

[Black Adam]

Wow!! So Karl has not only snowed the Denver ownership and fanbase but he has duped the COY voters as well. Thibs, Hollins, or Mark Jackson should have won it.

my vote would've been for Jackson. thought the guy did a great job this season...

 

[RedRum]

No love for Bernie's .800 W/L % this year? Hands down the best % this year.

 

[wlk3]

I think Phil Jackson should have won since he proved his greatness by not coaching the Lakers to a ring... That is all...

 

[Black Adam]

I think Phil Jackson should have won since he proved his greatness by not coaching the Lakers to a ring... That is all...

did thousands of fans shouting "we want Phil" at Shaq's jersey retirement celebration tell you that...?

 

[Lakers+USC=#1]

What's the beef with Karl? This guy has no superstar on his team and led them to a 3 seed in the West. I have no problem with this.

 

[shitsho]

What's the beef with Karl? This guy has no superstar on his team and led them to a 3 seed in the West. I have no problem with this.

Same story every year. He just went further this season than most seasons.

 

[Lakers+USC=#1]

How is getting this team to the 3rd seed the same story?

 

[shitsho]

How is getting this team to the 3rd seed the same story?

See below.

He just went further this season than most seasons

 

[shitsho]

I guess I should clarify. they just happened to have a better record.

 

[Lakers+USC=#1]

And they still improved, so whats your point. How many times have you sern a team with no superstars make it to a top 3 seed in the west?

 

[shitsho]

And they still improved, so whats your point. How many times have you sern a team with no superstars make it to a top 3 seed in the west?

My point is that Denvers improvement was not as dramatic as other teams like GSW. Which team improved more in spite of injuries? Thibs kept the Bulls alive when they could have just quit. Same with Hollins after they lost Gaye.

 

[Clayton]

He did what a 'Coach of the Year' should do. He overachieved in the regular season. Its a fairly meaningless award. Tom Thibodeau is obviously the coach of the year at this point but its a regular season award.

Whats all this talk about Mark Jackson being a good coach now?

 

[shitsho]

He did what a 'Coach of the Year' should do. He overachieved in the regular season. Its a fairly meaningless award. Tom Thibodeau is obviously the coach of the year at this point but its a regular season award.

Whats all this talk about Mark Jackson being a good coach now?

GSW overachieved much more than Denver. So did the Bulls. Denver runs 12 deep. Not hard to win more games if you have virtually no drop off from 1rst to 2nd string.

 

[Clayton]

GSW overachieved much more than Denver. So did the Bulls. Denver runs 12 deep. Not hard to win more games if you have virtually no drop off from 1rst to 2nd string.

In terms of preseason expectations, Denver and Golden St both slightly overachieved but were in the realm of where popular thought they would be. Denver just started out slowly and then got really, really hot. Golden St started out hot and then played .500 ball throughout most of the year.

The Bulls have wildly overachieved. Major props all around there.

But lets be real here: Mark Jackson has proven to be a mediocre coach. He has 2 straight massive chokes against 2 different teams in the playoffs. Tony Parker got clean drives to the hoop on 4 or 5 straight plays. Curry is playing too many minutes. Bogut is going through huge stretches without any touches. His team is making awful decisions in the clutch on offense and having major breakdowns in the clutch on defense.

 

[Hornsstampede2.0]

I don't know if the Bulls Wildly overachieved.

They won 45 games in a very weak Eastern Conference.
They also played in a weak division where nobody even got to 50 wins

With Rose, they were a 62 win team.
Without him they fell back 17 games. That seems like the expected result.

They were projected to finish 5th or 6th in every pre-season magazine.
They finished 6th exactly as predicted in the pre-season.

Sure, Rose was out. But he had 3 topnotch guys play nearly every game.
Since when did a max contract 18/10 guy like Boozer become a D-league exaggeration to pat Thibs on the back??

Boozer, Deng, and Noah are all above average players and sometimes allstars.
There are a lot of coaches who would kill to have 3 guys at that level of talent.

...............

What he is doing in the playoffs (without Deng) has no bearing on the regular season.