i have something to say about the offs THE 2016 NBA PLAYOFFS

this OKC/SAS matchup is gonna be a blast

ya interesting dynamic between chaotic talent and professional mastery, spurs will win easily tho prob behind westbrook shooting 38%

brother brad a legend in his own time http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15356168/brad-stevens-next-superstar-head-coach

i hope bron is juicing kyrie & love the bron way

― moullet, Tuesday, April 26, 2016 12:14 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too

credit ainge for the stevens hire. astute appraisal.

Kerr COY

weird

Stotts pretty close behind

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg-38pzUkAEdPK6.jpg

TS: winning more games than God because you have the all-world MVP and a ton of great talent vs. taking a team without one all-star that was picked to win fewer than 28 games to a #5 seed in the western conference

winning 73 games trumps all other coaching accolades. i'm sure that was the thought process.

yea it was the 73 that did it

they won all the games im cool w them getting all the awards only thing thats slightly weird is kerr didnt actually coach half of them

did he really win 73 games though...think about it

yes, all of them

the amazing thing is that stotts got a total of 111 votes within the top three spots, but kerr only got 89 'top three' votes, pops got 62, and it tails off rapidly after that

they won all the games im cool w them getting all the awards only thing thats slightly weird is kerr didnt actually coach half of them

yeah this - Stotts totally deserves it but I'm not gonna make that argument

also lol dwane casey over brad stevens

its ok brad will get it next year

durant might help him get it yeah

what did dwane casey do this year exactly?

There's an apocryphal story that before the battle of Salamis the eleven Greek commanders cast votes for who'd be the overall commander in charge. When the ballots were counted all the commanders had voted themselves the top spot, but all the second place votes went to Themistocles. Congratulations, Mr. Stotts.

the raptors had a very good year and aside from lowry it's not like that roster is overwhelmingly talented

id have voted for pop

i would have voted for stotts

prob also would have voted for guys like joeger, bud & spo who had to radically alter their teams and/or style of play like halfway thru the season

spoelstra did an amazing job

the raptors had a very good year and aside from lowry it's not like that roster is overwhelmingly talented

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 26, 2016 11:06 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty good roster imo besides the glaring weak spot at PF

they went into the season with a shot to be the second-best team in the east. def met expectations but seems like a weird placement.

billy donovan got a vote, lol

yeah aside from lowry i think the raptors are a collection of pretty nice players, and one of them (carroll) was out for most of the year. i coulnd't point to exactly what casey has done there (and frankly i think they'll prob end up finding someone else to push them up another level) but i don't think there was anything preordained about them winning 56 games and challenging for the 1 seed.

yeah feels like they more or less met expectations whereas portland and to a lesser extent charlotte and boston exceeded them if you're gonna vote for someone with a second tier team

i mean i personally in my fake nba ballot would not have voted for dwayne casey but i don't begrudge him getting votes in the actual ballot

i do agree w/ you about those midtier coaches

there should be a special coaching award for the playoffs since so many of them get exposed

i honestly feel like pop deserves it every year. he had that team humming so quickly where I thought it would take at LEAST half the season to figure ut.

popovich gets all the respect he deserves and if COY came down to a lifetime achievement award he'd sweep the voting every year, but it's fair to allow other coaches a decent shot at recognition, too

dammit durant is going to the spurs next year isn't he

this season the way pop took them to a 67-15 record was just mind blowing to me. it's not that they're not clearly talented and the second best in the west (maybe best, now), but that team didn't seem like a 67 win team going into this year.

yeah, maybe a 61 win team, but no one picked them to win 67

60 wins is already so many

and that was while still giving his main guys nights off

Pops made a Guarneri sound like a Stradivarius.

coaching that team to a title two years ago was more impressive imho i mean pops just the #1 everyone knows

its funny no one even noticed it was a superstar bereft squad

saw a discussion on tv abt how that pistons team was the last no superstar champs lol

aldridge and kawhi are both better than anyone who was on the team two years ago

easily

Ben Golliver ‏@BenGolliver 41s41 seconds ago
Clippers announce Blake Griffin is out for playoffs after aggravating left quad injury during Game 4 loss to Blazers.

WOW

wake me up when september ends

brutal