Gregg Popovich Named Coach of The Year

Post #1 » by **Nolan** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:20 am

[tweet]https://twitter.com/mcten/status/458366461610692608[/tweet]

My guess would be Pops for COY.

Update: It's offical Pops is COY.

co_laper · Post #2 » by **co_laper** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 4:34 am

Rookie of the year award.

SPURt · Post #3 » by **SPURt** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:13 am

Since the Spurs are holding the press conference I am going to assume it's coach of the year or a very outside chance it's 6th man. It probably won't be rookie of the year because we don't have any rookies.

co_laper · Post #4 » by **co_laper** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:43 am

SPURt wrote:Since the Spurs are holding the press conference I am going to assume it's coach of the year or a very outside chance it's 6th man. It probably won't be rookie of the year because we don't have any rookies.

LOL. Yeah, most likely it's Coach of the Year. But I would have given the COY award to Jeff Hornacek. I really thought Phoenix was going to be as bad as Milwaukee. For Phoenix to win 48 games is more impressive than our team, who made the NBA finals the year before and didn't lose anyone, finish with 62 wins. I mean, we were predicted to have about 55 wins right?

Post #5 » by **Nolan** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:01 pm

Source: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10821444/gregg-popovich-san-antonio-spurs-nba-coach-year

Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs was named the NBA Coach of the Year on Tuesday, becoming just the third three-time winner of the award in NBA history.

Popovich, who guided the Spurs to an NBA-best 62-20 regular-season record, joins Pat Riley and Don Nelson as the only coaches to win the Red Auerbach Trophy three times. The longtime Spurs' coach also won the award after the 2002-03 and 2011-12 seasons.

Popovich tallied 59 first-place votes and 380 points in balloting among sportswriters and broadcasters, finishing just ahead of Phoenix Suns coach Jeff Hornacek, who had 339 points (37 first-place votes). The award has been handed out since the 1962-63 season.

Phreak50 · Post #6 » by **Phreak50** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:03 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbcKbRr8hCY

To anyone that missed it, please click and watch that clip above.

That shows the true Pop. Even I've been tough on his hard man act at times but my goodness, that was the classiest, most sincere and kindest thing the guy could have done. Especially given that was (if I remember right) going into the 4th quarter of a game the Spurs were struggling in, game 1 of the playoffs.

Top job.

Phreak50 · Post #7 » by **Phreak50** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:06 pm

co_laper wrote:
SPURt wrote:... our team, who made the NBA finals the year before and didn't lose anyone, finish with 62 wins. I mean, we were predicted to have about 55 wins right?

I think it's a number of things Pop achieved. To be able to not just come back from such a heartbreaking Finals loss, but to do so with a league leading 62 wins is pure class.

But we were also written off as being too old, too worn down and beaten to really compete again (let alone get the top seed).

Add the amount of injuries we played through, the fact that we could have had even more wins and success if we weren't resting and sitting guys and yet another year where Pop has helped players with their career best year.

Definite Coach of the Year.

SPURt · Post #8 » by **SPURt** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:00 pm

Woot woot! More car ornaments for Pop!

law_1990 · Post #9 » by **law_1990** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:27 am

i'll just c&p my post off the main board

law_1990 wrote:pleasing. But Hornacek really did do miracles in Phoenix this year so i'm not gunna sit here and blah blah about pop, everyone already knows how blessed we've been having him as our coach. In a couple years i can see Hornacek picking the same award if all goes well.

Pop deserves it 100%
After the finals loss i don't think even we though we'd be finishing 1st seeds this year and yet here we are. The man just keeps going and going. I wish he'd coach us until he's 100

Black_Jack21 · Post #10 » by **Black_Jack21** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 5:09 am

Congrats to Pop
Consummate professional every bit as vital to our success over the last decade plus as Tim Duncan was.

Enjoy the accolades, and lets add another NBA championship to it as well.

imagump1313 · Post #11 » by **imagump1313** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 12:04 pm

Black_Jack21 wrote:
Consummate professional every bit as vital to our success over the last decade plus as Tim Duncan was.

^ This ^

Donald Kaufman · Post #12 » by **Donald Kaufman** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:17 pm

From managing minutes to adjusting to all the injuries we had, and still tie a franchise record for wins in a season - not to mention bouncing back from a heartbreaking Finals - Pop absolutely deserves the award.

Wouldn't of bothered me at all if Hornacek won this - he did a heck of a job for a team many picked to finish at the bottom of the conference. You could argue that he had less talent (on paper) than say Adelman in Minnesota yet he was able to take players that seemingly no one wanted (Green, Plumlee, Frye for example) and get significant contributions from them.