#SLOE: People's Basketball Sim League

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 6/28 @ 5pm

I'm nominating 2 GMs for this, because I feel both their names deserve to be on the ballot: Garbageman & Quail.

Garbageman
What were that team's pre-season projections? Did they exceed what everyone expected from them?
Yes. I feel like the Bulls were one of those teams people had kinda written off as a team headed for a refresh after Wiggins and Jaylen Brown declined in TC. For them to not only compete, but improve over last season with new divisional and conference competition is very impressive.

Did any coaches make significant leaps from the previous year? How did the said coach perform under pressure coaching playoff basketball?
So both of these questions go hand in hand for the Bulls. After last season's game 7 upset, the Bulls answered back with a dominant 8-1 record throughout Rounds 1 & 2 (against the Hawks and Rockets, both respected teams with savvy leaders) until taking this season's juggernaut, the Spurs, to the limit in a 7 game series after starting off down 0-2.

Overall, this season has been a testament to just how good G-man's gotten at this league despite not being here all that long in the grand scheme of things.

Quail
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?
I'm pretty sure everybody expected Quail to be in the mix, especially if his young guys continued to improve, but I do think that there were questions on if the Bucks were really a serious contender or not. Last season's decisive Round 2 loss to the 76ers kinda made the Round 1 upset against the Bulls seem a bit flukey in retrospect, and the Bucks really didn't make any major additions to the squad. But then the Bucks rattled off 66 wins, 16 more than the previous season.

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?
16-3 playoff record on the way to a title, and no team won more than one game against them. No, not even the Sixers or Spurs. 31-year-old Aubrey Broomfield, who'd been pretty much a role player his entire career, suddenly became a defensive stopper, wearing opposing players out just enough so that Fox (who Quail had the balls to keep as his 6th man throughout the entire playoffs) could take over.

A 66-win season's a crowning achievement on its own, but combine that with an incredible and dominant playoff run, and you have a strong COY candidate.

For coach of the year, I'm going to nominate the simputer's favorite GMOY, 78#.

I remember at the beginning of the year, the Rockets were off to a slow start. They started out 10-10.

After that, 78# made whatever adjustments he needed to make to finish the season out strong at 58-24...so after those first 20 games, he was 48-14, a 77% clip. Even though Jerry West was injured throughout most of the year, I think a lot of people would still have picked the Nuggets to take the division, but alas, the Rockets were able to catch the Nuggets and edge them out for the 3 seed in the playoffs.