Greg Popovich is the best coach in the NBA
Published by The Cavalier April 18th, 2006 in Awards, Coaches, LeBron James, MVPs, San Antonio Spurs
With the Spurs having clinched the first seed in the West as of last night, all the major regular season work is more or less done.
We guess that means it’s time to take a couple days and look back over the season before looking ahead to the playoffs. ESPN has handed out their awards, as has this guy who comments on the YAY.
Each of them has their own system for doing so, many of which confuse the hell out of us.
The final weights for “expected winning %” were: 2/9 to a .500 winning %, for the reasons John cites in the article; 1/9 to the team’s pythagorean win % this year; 4/9 to the team’s pythagorean win % last year; and 2/9 to the team’s cumulative pythagorean win % over the previous two years.
I then simply subtracted this hybrid “expected win %” from the team’s actual win % this season, and multiplied by 82 to get “Games Above Expected”.
Right, let us run that through our Texas Instruments Scientific Calculator we still have from 6th grade. That’s correct - we were considered gifted, which around age 23 everyone realized was a horrible miscalculation.
Here’s how we grade coaches and everything else - we sit back and think, “did that coach (or everything else) do a good job?” After a couple seconds, we pick a grade of A, B, C, D, or F. Then we move to the next coach (or next everything else). The whole process takes like a minute. Here are our final coach grades, for example:
A A A F D C B A C C C D B A A B C B- C D+ F A C A- C B B B D A+
That A+ is for Popovich, both because he clinched the West, and because like Magic Bob Weiss, he has a doppleganger who does children’s birthday parties.
Here’s what the ESPN gang thought of everything - that number after the name is how many votes they got (Our picks are in bold):
MVP: LeBron 7, Kobe 6, Steve Nash 4, Dirk 1, Biillups 1, Wade 1 *
Defensive Guy: Ben Wallace 9, Bruce Bowen 5, Kirilenko 4, Zo 1, Artest 1
Sixth Person: Mike Miller 11, Stackhouse 3, Zo 2, Speedy Claxton, Antonio McDyess, Leandro Barbosa, & Ben Gordon 1
Most Improvinated: Boris Diaw 12, David West 3, Gerald Wallace, Dwight Howard, Melo, & Diop 1
Rookie: Chris Paul 20
* We’re abstaining from the MVP - if the Cavaliers get 50 wins, we’ll give it to Bron, although the Detroit game last week still rubs us incorrectly. If the Cavs stay at 49, it goes to Kobe.
Nominations for “Sexiest Sports Blog Starting With the Letter Y and Pertaining to the NBA” are still being taken.
There is some tough competion out there. Maybe you could make this guy your enemy.
http://www.nba.com/blog/blog8.html
dude stack is a chemistry killer, he just shoots like eddie house when he comes in and he doesn’t play D, just like eddie house
and his forehead is too big
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Eddie House is scrappy.
lol you show me eddie house throw it down over yao, and THEN ill give him crap for being eddie house.
stackhouse is not a one dimensional offensive player
you show me eddie house throw it down over yao, and THEN ill give stack crap for being eddie house.
stackhouse is not a one dimensional offensive player
Stack also makes about 9 times more than Eddie House.
throw what down exactly?
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Like mother, like daughter… Randall
Like mother, like daughter… Randall
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