26-27 Coach of the Year Nominations (DUE 4/29 @5pm)

[IamQuailman]

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 4/29 @ 5pm

[WigNosy]

I nominate xist2inspire as CotY. He formed a team that everyone thought would be built around and aging Giannis and an in-his-prime-but-not-exactily-terrifying J.R. Johnson and managed to elevate a couple of previously-unknowns in Billy Kingston and Victor Newman... cast-off pieces that nobody else was that interested in... to be his stars. Not only did he create a team that dominated the interior (#1 in block differential), they also were great at both assists and turnover margins and made the playoffs to boot in an a rough and tumble Eastern Conference. Well done, xist!

[TheSyndicate]

As coach, it's your job to maximize the wins and losses for your given team. I just did that to the tune of the best regular season record in league history. I think that merits some consideration (and I thank the lord this is a regular season award)!