Eric Neel and our good friend Ric Bucher pick Travis Outlaw for 6th Man of the Year. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?page=SixthMan-0809
ESPN gives two votes to Brandon Roy for MIP 2 votes for Roy for MIP http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?page=MIP-0809
ESPN gives only 1 vote to Nate McMillan for COY Only one vote for Nate for COY. Jalen Rose. I'm surprised. Thought he'd get more. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?page=COY-0809
Re: ESPN gives two votes to Travis Outlaw for 6th Man of the Year Do you really have to make a thread for each one?
Re: ESPN gives two votes to Travis Outlaw for 6th Man of the Year After I did two, I wanted to make one, but it was too late. Now the thread makes no sense. EDIT- now it makes sense
On Inside the NBA, Charles and Kenny had Mike Brown as COY. Ernie had George Karl, and C-Webb had Nate. Nice choice Chris!
I really don't understand why Mike Brown gets COY. I'm tired of the league rewarding coaches for riding the best players in the league. It's like, we know Phil Jackson is a good coach, but when has he ever coached a team without one of the top two players in the league?
In 1994, he got the Bulls to game 7 of the second round of the playoffs without Michael Jordan. As for Mike Brown, the Cavs only won 45 games last season and LeBron was playing. This season he has coached them to 66 wins and counting.
Travis drives me fucking crazy, but I think he is probably deserving of the 6th man award. Either him or Jason Terry
LeBron's amazing, but he's not THAT amazing. Especially when you consider who his teammates are. Quick, name the second best player on the Cavs. Got him? Okay, name another playoff team where he would be the second best player. Brown has done an incredible job and easily deserves it. Besides, the league DOESN'T reward coaches for that, otherwise Phil Jackson would have 9 or 10 COYs instead of 1 (which is a travesty). As Eric said, there was the first year of Jordan's "retirement", when he was replaced as a starter by (drum roll) Pete Myers - and I think the team lost about 1 more game than it had the previous year. Of course, he still had Pippen. But having great players doesn't mean you're not a great coach. Dell Harris got swept with Shaq and Kobe. Jackson won three titles with them. Jackson's strength is taking great players and winning titles. Plenty of great players never do that. I wouldn't want Jackson as the coach of my expansion team (although he's gotten a lot better at developing young players) but he's the best ever at taking very good players to titles.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...t=Avt0.NYqpac3B7ofe_D5zH.8vLYF?urn=nba,155907 Yahoo's BDL has Roy as MIP
That Yahoo article is a really good read. It's long, but worth the time and has completely convinced me. Oh, and Outlaw does not deserve a 6th man award. Not when he's held accountable for everything but his offense, and someone named Jason Terry averages almost 20 a game.
It was a really good read. Their coach of the Year award is really good read as well, even if they give it to Van Gundy.
