Mo cheeks Coach of the year!

phillyborn_jacksonite · Post #1 » by **phillyborn_jacksonite** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:35 am

The sixers have won 12 of their last 15 and have scored over 100 points in each of those wins except Dallas and they are holding their opponents to less than 94 points per game in that stretch.

I figure this would reinvigorate the debate about Mo. I am a firm believer in Mo and feel that he will no doubt be considered along with Rick Adelman, Byron Scott and Stan Van Gundy for Coach of the Year.

I would say its going to have to be 44 wins and a deep run to the conference finals to get Mo that honor but insist that he will be in the conversation if we keep playing this way. We are beating the teams we should beat and stealing some from teams that are supposed to beat us. This is the happiest i have been with the is team since 1999/2000/2001. I think the 6th spot is ours and toronto better watch out because here we come.I give Mo a lot of credit for this, getting these guys ready to play every night despite our slow start, he has done well. the best coach we have had since LB in 2001.

Post #2 » by **The Guilty Party** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:41 am

I might be wrong but isn't voting for this taken BEFORE the playoffs? If so, a late run won't help Mo out.

Either way, I think he has to at least be mentioned when coach of the year is talked about. Doc Rivers will probably get it but as we've seen, when he had a similar talent level to what we currently have... his team finished with the 2nd worst record in the league.

barkley34 · Post #3 » by **barkley34** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:47 am

The Guilty Party wrote:I might be wrong but isn't voting for this taken BEFORE the playoffs? If so, a late run won't help Mo out.

You're correct, playoffs don't count.

SendEm · Post #4 » by **SendEm** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:50 am

Jerry Sloan and Rick Adelman have done superior jobs...

phillyborn_jacksonite · Post #5 » by **phillyborn_jacksonite** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:52 am

ok thanks,

then i correct that, 46 wins will get it for him...thats winning 16 out of 19. kind of crazy but not so much considering we have won 12 of 15. this week will certainly set the stage for the conversation.

UptownPhilly · Post #6 » by **UptownPhilly** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:03 am

He should definitely be considered.

I agree with SendEm though, Sloan or Adelman will most likely be COY.

ITK9 · Post #7 » by **ITK9** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:52 am

imo coach of the year should be the one that has the best ratio number of wins/talent on his team => mo should win it...and i mean it!

UptownPhilly · Post #8 » by **UptownPhilly** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:48 pm

ITK9 wrote:imo coach of the year should be the one that has the best ratio number of wins/talent on his team => mo should win it...and i mean it!

You can make that make that argument for Mike Brown too.

I'm not exactly sure that the Wallace/Sczerbiak/Smith/West trade will work out for them yet.

They traded several of their players that helped to get them to the finals last year in Hughes/Gooden/Marshall/Newble.

If the Cavs go at least 45-37, Brown and Lebron have to be considered for coach and MVP.

dond · Post #9 » by **dond** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:22 pm

It is nice to see that Mo Cheeks is getting the recognition that I feel he deserves on this forum. Whether or not he gets coach of the year, he has done very well and my hats off to him. Of course, a lot of the success he has had as a coach goes to the players he is coaching. They are all very coachable players and he is allowed to make coaching decisions without worrying that one of them might be upset about it and pout to the media.

Cookin Baskets · Post #10 » by **Cookin Baskets** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:49 pm

I think Phil Jackson should be coach of the year, after Kobe's Trade request he help keep the team together and he has developed the young players like Andrew Bynum,Sasha Vujic,Jordan Farmar,Ronny Turiaf. Phil Jackson has 9 going for 10, I think he is overlooked cause he always used to take teams that were already built. This time he showed he can play and has the coaching skills to develop the young players. Getting Pau Gasol also helps his case after Bynum went down and helping get acquired quickly to the triangle offense that he has mastered.

My vote is for Phil Jackson he help turn a 1st round team, to championship contenders and Jackson deserves a good bit of credit for the success and he always gets the best out of his roster.

Just look at the one year he left, no playoffs, and when Rudy T. quit on them in the middle of the season.

LieCheatSteal · Post #11 » by **LieCheatSteal** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:57 am

Let's put it this way...

1) Who's done a lot with so little?
- Sloan, Adelman and Jackson all coach very talented teams. Cheeks coaches a team with maybe two players that could start for those teams (Miller and Iggy). Everyone else are backups (Sammy, Evans, Green).

2) Who's "weathered the storm"?
The Sixers weren't off to the best start. That lead to the BK firing. In the midst of this, they started to develop an identity under Cheeks, who continued to coach despite the dead man walking sign on this back after BK was fired. Jackson weathered the Kobe storm but it wasn't hard considering Bynum improved this year by leaps and bounds. Same goes for Turiaf and Vujacic. Adelman handled a slow start by Houston well but it was inevitable that they improve with the talent they got there. Utah's a solid team from top to bottom and much improved with the Korver addition. But there wasn't any real storm there unless you consider the Giricek thing a storm. Also, I don't buy the whole Korver making the team better thing. The team was solid already. They just had to turn it up a notch seeing the tough competition to get into the playoffs.

3) Who's done the best to develop players? Under Cheeks, Young and Williams have developed to be excellent young players. Young is even starting now and looking well doing so. Cheeks deserves a lot of credit for this (remember when Evans was starting over Young in the beginning and everyone here was complaining about that. Method to the madness?). Jason Smith seems to have plateaued but he was good early on. Cheeks should also be credited with developing Sammy (although Sammy's time with the Canadian basketball team deserves credit as well). For some reason, I don't see Jackson developing Bynum and the other young players. They all just seemed to "get it" at the right times. Adelman couldn't do anything with Francis or Wells. Landry's more of a "wow, where did he come from" like Jamario Moon in Toronto. Sloan didn't develop anyone this year.

So, my vote is Cheeks. And yes, the Eastern Conference is weak... blah, blah, blah. Whatever. The Sixers are actually hanging tough with the Western Conference teams too (they beat Phoenix the other night... and yes, I understand the Suns are still gelling. A win is a win). Also, despite their records, there are teams below the Sixers with talent better than the Sixers. Indiana, Atlanta, Chicago and even Charlotte all have players better than the Sixers. Some teams, even their bench players could be starting for the Sixers right now (Childress with Atlanta, Thomas from Chicago, Diogu with Indiana).

Cheeks in '08. Yes we can! (stole that one from Bill Simmons;)

Post #12 » by **Sixerscan** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:40 am

LieCheatSteal wrote:Cheeks in '08. Yes we can! (stole that one from Bill Simmons;)

We can let this slide because you're from Canada.

LieCheatSteal · Post #13 » by **LieCheatSteal** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:03 am

Sixerscan wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

We can let this slide because you're from Canada.

He stole that from Obama, OK? I know Simmons uses that too.

I'm from Canada, eh?

ponder719 · Post #14 » by **ponder719** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:24 am

LieCheatSteal wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

He stole that from Obama, OK? I know Simmons uses that too.

I'm from Canada, eh?

And Obama, in turn, stole that from Cesar Chavez.

Though his version was *upsidedown!*Si! Se puede!