25-26 Coach of the Year Nominations (DUE 2/27 @5pm)

[Darth Vegito]

Rules for Nominations:(READ CAREFULLY AS THERE ARE CHANGES) Nominate yourself for Coach of the Year OR someone else for Coach of the Year that you feel was outstanding and exemplary. You are limited to ONE nomination.

This year there will be a GMOTY award AND a COTY award. Therefore you must consider different things when nominating for these two awards. For this award you are only to judge the actual coaching job by the particular GM. Here you should look at a few of the following things. The team's performance vs the degree of difficulty. We now have very in depth Strength of Schedule rankings put out by Ryan. Use these to see who had extremely rough schedules. What were that team's pre-season projections? Did they exceed what everyone expected from them? Did any coaches make significant leaps from the previous year? How did the said coach perform under pressure coaching playoff basketball? Did they get a low seeding and overcome great odds strictly based on great game planning? Think about all these rotation and game planning type decisions when making this nomination. And don't just say "I made great adjustments", explain what you did and why you did it and how it worked. Go into detail. Tell us why you truly deserve the first ever Coach of the Year Award!

So the body of work you should evaluate for this award is from Day 1 of the regular season to the second you submit your nomination. Take the regular season AND current post-season into consideration. Please break down why your nomination fits this bill and why your nomination deserves this award.

As always there will NOT be any prodding of other GMs or any general bitchassness in these threads. It will be deleted upon discovery.

DUE 2/27 @ 5pm

[garbageman]

I'd like to nominate logpmess of the Miami Heat for coach of the year. If you look at the stacked Eastern Conference, there's no way on paper that you'd expect a team with one blue current player to crack the playoffs, but the Heat managed the 7th seed. The gameplanning really got the most out of their players, even earning Long Anderson a starting spot on the All Star team. They did a great job playing to their strengths and were rewarded for it in the win column.

[TheSyndicate]

Throwing my hat in the ring. Best record in the league, with nowhere near the most talent. Created a defense-focused gameplan to utilize my depth up front (different than I've ever done before) which resulted in the best team Defensive Efficiency in the league, and only 1 home loss.

Without going too far into my gameplan strategy, I've worked in my bench players for different amounts depending on the opponent. Have had a ton of unsung players in my rotation, and I don't think you could get any more than I get out of the talent I have on this team.

[false9]

I'll nominate RPF of the Nets. He won 58 games and the meat grinder that is the Atlantic Division. Unfortunately, he ran into the OP that is AD in the second round, but still a great season for the Nets.