<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Avery Johnson will be named the NBA?s coach of the year Tuesday, according to two league sources. Johnson is the first Mavs coach to get the honor. Johnson, in his first full season as Mavericks? coach, won the nationwide ballot of league members, besting Detroit?s Flip Saunders, San Antonio?s Gregg Popovich and Phoenix?s Mike D'Antoni, who won the award last season.</div> Source
he deserves it but he also was handed a great team but brought in tough minded defense which is good.
Definitely deserves it. They should hand out a mis-Coach of the Year (or something like that). It'd be more interesting. My money would be on either Sam Mitchell or Terry Stotts.
Avery probably deserves it, but I think they should've waited until after the playoffs. If the Mavs still get bounced by San Antonio, Avery doesn't deserve much more credit than Don Nelson.
I can see why he won the award, but personally (not being biased), I thought Flip Saunders deserved it more.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting arre:</div><div class="quote_post">Pjax should've won it </div> Avery deserves it, but i think Mike Da'Antoni did the best job coaching this year hands down.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Rock4life:</div><div class="quote_post">Avery deserves it, but i think Mike Da'Antoni did the best job coaching this year hands down.</div> Yeah, I tend to agree. It's not as easy to coach a team to 50+ wins and division title when right from the start you're hamstrung by losing your all-star player as well as getting so many new, diverse pieces to work with.
Can't complain about the choice for COY. There were a lot of deserving canidates, but Avery Johnson has completely altered the way the Mavs play. Congrats to the Little General.
Was almost a toss up this year, but hats off to Avery, he really has pointed the way for the Mavs to becoming a better basketball team.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting unbeliever:</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah, I tend to agree. It's not as easy to coach a team to 50+ wins and division title when right from the start you're hamstrung by losing your all-star player as well as getting so many new, diverse pieces to work with.</div> To me, people really over-rate what the Suns went through, in terms of people calling Nash the MVP and D'antoni the COY. Seriously, when you call Nash the MVP (or D'antoni the coach, whatever) this year for keeping his team good after losing guys, you don't realize what Dirk and Avery have done. Two years ago, the Mavs lost Nash! The MVP of the league, gone. Last summer we lose Finley, one of the cornerstones of the franchise for years. The team's identity completely changed - but they're still one of the elite teams in the league. And in the Nash-Dirk for MVP campaign. Look at the starting 5s. Nash, Bell, Thomas, Marion, Diaw Terry, Griffin, Howard, Nowitzki, Diop If you take out Nash and Dirk, I say the advantage goes to Phoenix. I know the Mavs have an amazing bench, but you can't tell me how valuable Nash and D'antoni are for keeping that team good, when Dirk and Avery have had to deal with basically the same thing. Yeah, off topic I know. My bad.
Man, no need for argument really. Basically everyone who get's nominated for this award deserves it for one reason or another as much as the next guy, so it doesn't really matter. They all did a great job.
After watching the video of his press conference receiving the award, did anybody watch the actual closeup of the trophy when he held it and posed for pictures? It looks like just some cheap staute of a coach glued onto what looked like a brick.
Great choice, and of course i am a bit biased. However, i believe there were many candidates that deserved the award, and im surprised at the margain. But hey, I always like seeing a Maverick getting recognized. He definitely deserved it for what he has done to the franchise.
