That's pretty much right. Popovich: Spurs were amazing. Hornacek: Suns were so far better than anyone had a right to expect. Thibs: it's easy to forget the incredible job he does every year, especially without Rose (who owes his rep. to Thibs anyway) Clifford: making the Bobcats respectable? Amazing. Casey: ditto for the Raptors. After that it gets a bit iffy, but who cares. The Philly coach actually deserves a shout-out because he was overachieving so much they had to ship off even more players to stop him wrecking their tanking plan.
I think I take back what I said earlier in season about not bringing stotts back as head coach. I kind of see his game plan now. How he played the young guys for streches of games to feel them out. He wasnt a blind moron playing leonard, he was seeing how he wanted his playoff rotation, and developing young guys, something we all wanted from McMillan
COY - I'm Sure This Has Already Been Brought Up, But.... Stotts.....6th.....really? Oh, and the voting media is quick to call Gregg Popovich, "Pops". Go figure.
Re: COY - I'm Sure This Has Already Been Brought Up, But.... Also Lopez was 15th for most improved. I would have thought top 5.
Re: COY - I'm Sure This Has Already Been Brought Up, But.... Here's what I think happened with COTY. Most people picked us to miss the playoffs but then when we started winning, they were like of COURSE they're good, they have Aldridge and rookie of the year (this was what Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley said). Once both guys made the All Star team, winning 54 games didn't seem like a big deal to the voters. And he finished 6th which is still to be commended. He finished in the top 20%.
Re: COY - I'm Sure This Has Already Been Brought Up, But.... What does that matter? The award is voted on before playoffs.
