Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

[aa2ba]

Sam Mitchell To Be Named Coach Of The Year?
23rd April, 2007 - 5:24 am
Toronto Star -
All signs point to Raptor coach Sam Mitchell being named the league's coach of the year for 2006-07 and being honored before Game 2 of Toronto's Eastern Conference playoff series against the New Jersey Nets , the Toronto Star writes.

The league announced last night it would announce the coach of the year winner tomorrow and the league likes to allow the various winners their moment in the sun in front of a home crowd.

In a straw poll of writers and broadcasters who vote on the award, Mitchell had a slight edge on Utah's Jerry Sloan and Avery Johnson of the Dallas Mavericks .

In the past, the league has made sure the winner of any significant post-season award has been honored before his team plays.

Neither the Jazz nor the Mavericks play tomorrow night. [READ]

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I am from Toronto and this news bothers me. I personally feel he is the coach of the year by default.

It seems that all the things that Mitchell has done this year is either over valued or not really relevant. All in all it seems that the NBA/media is trying to find a way to give the award to Mitchell instead of giving another one to either Avery or Sloan.

The fact that he had to take a bunch of new players and made them into a solid team in the East --- First off, a solid team in the east could easily finish 7th-9th in the West. Secondly, what NBA team doesn't have to deal with 4 or 5 new players every year.

He won the Atlantic Division-- Well Avery Johnson won the whole friggin' West. Just cause the Mavs winning is nothing new should not DQ Avery Johnson

His team plays for him -- Well thats all well and true, but Jerry Sloans players and Avery Johnsons players play for them too.

All in all it seems that the NBA/media is trying to find a way to give the award to Mitchell instead of giving another one to either Avery or Sloan.

[SPTO]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

Eh, sometimes its a popularity contest and it seems to me that Mitchell is very popular (I don't know why the man can be very surly at times) and I have a feeling that this will be the closest thing to great success that he'll ever have as a coach. They might as well give it to him IMO.

I do agree that if all things being equal i'd have given it to Sloan but Smitch deserves it a lot as well.

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

Congrats to the dude. I've always liked him.

[SteelersFreak]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

He deserves it, what he did for the team was amazing.

[yucatan]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

Brilliant motivator. Horrific X and O's coach. I would like a coach with a better balance of the two, but I guess I can't complain.

[aa2ba]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

Brilliant motivator. Horrific X and O's coach. I would like a coach with a better balance of the two, but I guess I can't complain.

Thats pretty much how I feel about Sam...

So it's now official, Mitchell won the Red Auerbach Trophy, and I can't say its a terrible injustice to Sloan or Avery. I mean I would prefer Sloan or Avery to have won it, but I can't say they were robbed.

Has this what NBA coaching has come to; A motivator/that can't draw up a play to save his life wins the Coach of the year, and Paul Silas is still not working?

[Gmoney2002]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

The only other candidates that deserve to win besides Sam were:

Jeff Van Gundy
Jerry Sloan

That's all....

Everyone else(Avery, D'antoni, Popovich) has superior talent. I wanted Sam to win of course but if either Jeff or Jerry won, I would've not been upset at all.

[Streets]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

The only other candidates that deserve to win besides Sam were:

Jeff Van Gundy
Jerry Sloan

That's all....

Everyone else(Avery, D'antoni, Popovich) has superior talent. I wanted Sam to win of course but if either Jeff or Jerry won, I would've not been upset at all.

co-sign.

I obviously was rooting for JVG. But he too is not a great X's and O's coach on offense. He is however quite possibly the best defensive coach in the league (as can be seen by the Rockets being up 2-0 and shooting less than 40%), and he does command the respect of his players. I truely believe that his offensive shortcomings are masked by having a great playmaker in T-Mac.

I co-sign D'Antoni, Pop, and AJ not winning it. Sloan would have been a good choice, but that team has been on a downslide heading into the playoffs, and they too have a very good squad, solid at all positions (Okur, Boozer, AK, Fisher, Deron, Harpring, etc).

Mitchell is a great candidate for the award, as he did turn the Raps around. The homer side of me still really wanted to see Jeff get it for all the injuries he had to deal with and because he plays in the toughest conference in the L.

[dossier]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

He deserves it, what he did for the team was amazing.

I'd give more credit to their new GM whose name I forget. He is the same guy who made the Pheonix Suns what they are today. But yeah Sam did deserve it with what was it a 20 more win season?

[Flyboy]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

I'd give more credit to their new GM whose name I forget. He is the same guy who made the Pheonix Suns what they are today.

Jerry Colangelo.

[SPTO]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

Jerry Colangelo.

That's his father. It's Bryan Colangelo, and he's going to win the Executive of the Year award by a country mile IMO.

[aa2ba]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

That's his father. It's Bryan Colangelo, and he's going to win the Executive of the Year award by a country mile IMO.

co-sign. Infact I think all the evidence that got Smitch the Coach of the year award is more suited for the Exec. of the year award.

BTW: how do people still not know the name Bryan Colangelo?

[Bird006]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

Congrats to Mitchell. I agree with all the points of him being an awful X's and O's coach. I see the Raps run that freakin' Pick and Pop/Roll 95% of the time on offence. Excellent motivator, though.

Also, I too believe that Colangelo turned the Raptors around more than Mitchell did.

[bigeastbumrush]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

Congrats to Mitchell. I heard they really turned the corner when Bosh lit into the team though.

Props Vince.

[Snigitty James]

Re: Sam Mitchell to be named coach of the year?

Congrats to Sam, although I really think Jerry Sloan deserves it. Perhaps if the Jazz finished the season stronger than they did, he would have gotten the nod over Mitchell.