Larry_Russell wrote:31to6 wrote:Larry_Russell wrote:I dont get how Joe is not #1 in odds to win COTY.
BEst team in the league by a long shot
brought in 2 NEW STARTERS
new coaching staff around him
historical offensive production from the team
elite level defense
on pace for a .800 win percentage
Him not getting it would be a travesty.
voting narratives are dumb
and the narrative is Daignreneault gets it
because OKC is pretty good
I realize I'm not helping
yeah he is pretty good I guess, Joe is better though.
Like a main contributor to chosing the coach of the year should really be what coach has won the most! Add to that historic levels of production from the team....it makes zero sense to me how you can justify OKC coach at this point.
adding 8 ws from Chet certainly helps them too.
I think a coach who added in 2 new starters, and still improved an already good record of 57/25 to an estimated 65-17 for an 8 win improvement.
agree with all of it -- just not expecting Joe to finish higher than 2nd. He was 3rd last year? Not bad, so far. This year -- if they run through the tape -- I think he easily deserves it. But as Zoya said, the narrative around COY is always "wHoSe TeAm WaS MOsT SuRPriSinG?" with absolutely zero analysis beyond that. You don't get credit for being an excellent coach of an excellent team. That's boring, I guess. You need to be coaching a team that outperforms expectations to some degree -- because for whatever reason, that's apparently not the players or the GM, that is ALWAYS coaching.
MVP conversations are also dumb. "Who deserves it this year?" "Who does the most with the least?" are the two most common refrains there. I'd just give it to the best player in the league who had the best season, and then MJ, Shaq, and LeBron would have more, and I'd be fine with it, but people really wanted to give it to Karl Malone and Steve Nash and Derrick Rose and it's just whatever, I guess?
I'm not aware of any narrative around Exec of the Year or Defensive Player of the Year so I think those are, by comparison, kind of refreshing. All NBA tends to be straightforward, too. But the narratives around MVP and especially COY I find annoying and indicative of flawed results.
Paul Pierce appreciation society.