Doc deserves coach of the year consideration

[tonyto3690]

Rondo, Sullinger, Barbosa out for the season
Wilcox, Green coming back from heart surgery
KG, Pierce both on the verge of spontaneously exploding and managing them
Terry, Lee, Bradley all up and down all season
Playing COLLINS significant minutes at center
A rotary door of role players coming in and squeezing decent minutes out of them
Consistently great, no good, great, timeout play calling and end of the game adjustments

On top of that, this team has been horrifically up and down all season, going on great streaks and then going on big losing streaks.  Yet through it all he managed to get these guys to keep fighting, even with guys constantly falling and needing to be replaced.  The defense has pulled itself together and become elite even with a rotary of new players constantly being filled in all season.

All this and we get a respectable playoff seed?

Just like how Belichick should have won COTY in 2008 without Brady, Doc should at least get some consideration.

[SHAQATTACK]

anyone willing to coach the Bobcats should  win an award

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Rondo, Sullinger, Barbosa out for the season
Wilcox, Green coming back from heart surgery
KG, Pierce both on the verge of spontaneously exploding and managing them
Terry, Lee, Bradley all up and down all season
Playing COLLINS significant minutes at center
A rotary door of role players coming in and squeezing decent minutes out of them
Consistently great, no good, great, timeout play calling and end of the game adjustments

On top of that, this team has been horrifically up and down all season, going on great streaks and then going on big losing streaks.  Yet through it all he managed to get these guys to keep fighting, even with guys constantly falling and needing to be replaced.  The defense has pulled itself together and become elite even with a rotary of new players constantly being filled in all season.

All this and we get a respectable playoff seed?

Just like how Belichick should have won COTY in 2008 without Brady, Doc should at least get some consideration.

how about no? for all the reasons we have listed in the past and as of late?

[fairweatherfan]

Yes but have you considered that Doc is a bad coach QED?

[OsirusCeltics]

anyone willing to coach the Bobcats should  win an award

Ironically, Doc was unable to solve the Bobcat puzzle this season

[tonyto3690]

Rondo, Sullinger, Barbosa out for the season
Wilcox, Green coming back from heart surgery
KG, Pierce both on the verge of spontaneously exploding and managing them
Terry, Lee, Bradley all up and down all season
Playing COLLINS significant minutes at center
A rotary door of role players coming in and squeezing decent minutes out of them
Consistently great, no good, great, timeout play calling and end of the game adjustments

On top of that, this team has been horrifically up and down all season, going on great streaks and then going on big losing streaks.  Yet through it all he managed to get these guys to keep fighting, even with guys constantly falling and needing to be replaced.  The defense has pulled itself together and become elite even with a rotary of new players constantly being filled in all season.

All this and we get a respectable playoff seed?

Just like how Belichick should have won COTY in 2008 without Brady, Doc should at least get some consideration.

how about no? for all the reasons we have listed in the past and as of late?

Reasons such as?

-WE SHOULD TRADE FOR DWIGHT HOWARD
-MAN WHY ARENT WE PLAYING SCRUB CAREER BACKUP CHINA LEAGUE CENTERS STARTING MINUTES?
-MAN WE CANT SCORE, WHY ARE WE GOING SMALL?


Just incredibly stupid complaining is all I've heard about Doc lately.

[kgainez]

give COY to a coach that needs 5 or so games to make a new decision/game plan...
and you said it yourself...has an inconsistent team, can't figure out his rotations, has had his team lose large leads in winnable games, and got beat twice by the bobcats, hornets and pistons.

...

i'm not sure that's what they look for

[tonyto3690]

Yes but have you considered that Doc is a bad coach QED?

He is a two time coach of the year for two different teams.
He is the single biggest draw that we have for this team for free agents.
Players love him.
Coaches respect him.


He is not a bad coach.  That's the same kind of idiotic complaining I've heard about Belichick being an overrated defensive coach.  I mean LOL come on.

[BudweiserCeltic]

No way he deserves to be considered. One of his worst coaching performances of his career in my opinion.

[jambr380]

It's Thibodeau for me...no Rose and they still manage to be one of the top teams in the east. It really defies logic, especially since they are so bad on offense.

Of course, Popovich is also an obvious choice and you almost don't give it to him because you want to give somebody else a chance.

[Atzar]

Yeah, somehow I expected this thread to get roasted.

Personally, I like Doc as a coach, but then again I think the impact an NBA coach has on a team is way overblown.  They get way too much credit when things go well, and way too much blame when things go poorly. 

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

doc is doing a fine job right now against the knicks. 

[Boris Badenov]

Given that Thibs, Popovich and Brooks have all won recently I would say Vogel has the best chance, or maybe George Karl. It seems like recent winners are at a disadvantage. I do think Thibs has done an amazing job.

I think Doc has done a good job with the hand he's been dealt, for what that's worth.

This award has always been a bit of a mystery to me, though.

[slamtheking]

with the way this team started the season?  hell no. 

throw in the fact this team can't consistantly beat the crappy teams that they should be (regardless of injuries) and I'd prefer to hand him the janitor's mop for the parquet floor than to hand him a coaching trophy

[Ogaju]

coach of the year? When did the NBA start the award for the most underachieving Coach of the Year? That is what you meant, right?