00:00Joe Mazzula, the Coach of the Year winner this year, no problem with that at all.
00:05Joe Mazzula did a great job, I thought, in the regular season with the Boston Celtics.
00:11And frankly, did better than what I thought they were going to do.
00:14Obviously, no Jason Tatum for 90% of the year.
00:18They were still the two-seed in the Eastern Conference.
00:21And I think he's well-deserving of Coach of the Year.
00:24My gripe with the Coach of the Year voting, though, is the fact that Mike Brown got zero votes.
00:31And I'm trying to wrap my head around that, where the Knicks won more than 50 games this year.
00:38I know that last year they go to the Eastern Conference Finals and there was a level of expectation.
00:42You see the voting results right there.
00:45That means that the guys that cover the Knicks did not think that highly of Mike Brown as the head
00:52coach during the regular season.
00:53Regular season.
00:54We said from Jump Street, regarding the Knicks this year, that because of last year's playoff success
01:00and a run to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they ultimately lost a game seven to the Indiana Pacers,
01:06that Mike Brown was going to be judged on the postseason this year, not the regular season.
01:11Coach of the Year is a regular season award, obviously.
01:14Just like MVP, six-man of the year, etc.
01:17This is all voted for at the end of the regular season.
01:20But it's hard for me to see that screen there.
01:23But it looks like it's first place, second place, third place votes.
01:26Do I have that right?
01:27Yeah.
01:27Yeah, that's right.
01:29And all of those coaches, I think, in the regular season were better than Mike Brown.
01:33Mike Brown got zero?
01:35Yeah, he should have got zero in the regular season.
01:37Zero?
01:37Yes.
01:38You're telling me Mike Brown doesn't get a single vote?
01:40Bickerstaff did a better job with the Pistons.
01:42They won 60 games.
01:42They won 60 games.
01:43I got no problem with that.
01:44And he should be ahead.
01:46And Mitch Johnson won 60 games with San Antonio.
01:49Okay.
01:49With a very young team.
01:50Oh, you're telling me they got the best player in basketball in Victor Wambi?
01:52No, no, no.
01:53You just said he was out of shape and he stunk.
01:55So, no.
01:55That's what I said.
01:55To me, that vote is, he did not deserve any votes.
02:00He deserves like one vote?
02:01No, he didn't.
02:02And I was wondering why.
02:02The guy that covers the Knicks didn't give him even a charity vote?
02:05He shouldn't get a charity vote.
02:06Man, that's crazy talk.
02:07He shouldn't get it.
02:07And here's why.
02:08Crazy talk.
02:09The last three years with Tibbs, it was 47 wins, 50-51.
02:13Mike Braille comes in with a team, seasoned and ready, and they made a couple smaller games.
02:16And they won more games than they did in any single year with Tibbs.
02:19They won 53.
02:20That's two more games?
02:21But going from 47, if you're watching these teams.
02:23Tibbs was coach of the year in year two with the Knicks, I think.
02:26Yeah, but that's because they jumped up from 21 wins.
02:2948-51.
02:30Right.
02:31Right.
02:31When he won it, yeah, he jumped way up.
02:3447-50-51, and then you get a new coach, you win 53.
02:37In fact, in the regular season, the Knicks underachieved.
02:40He deserves no votes.
02:42The Knicks underachieved in the regular season.
02:44How the hell do the Pistons beat y'all by seven games in the regular season?
02:48Yeah, by the way, it swept us head-to-head in the regular season, too.
02:51Again, regular season.
02:51I got no problem with bigger staff getting votes.
02:53But in my opinion, the Knicks in the regular season underachieved.
02:57This is a 60-win team that won 53.
03:00Therefore, I'm not rewarding that coach.
03:02Now, ultimately, if you win the title, none of it matters.
03:04None of it matters at all, obviously.
03:05To me, he deserved no votes.
03:07I want to say this to you.
03:09It's disrespectful, frankly.
03:10How?
03:11Mike Brown is the most disrespected and underappreciated coach in the NBA today.
03:16And it's not very close.
03:18New York Riders didn't vote for him?
03:21They shouldn't.
03:21Brooklyn Riders didn't vote for him?
03:23They shouldn't.
03:24How do you not give Mike Brown?
03:26I'm not saying he should have won.
03:27I want to be very clear about this.
03:29I think Joe Mazzula was the deserving coach of the year, just so I'm straight about this.
03:35But my guy won 50, how many games?
03:3853.
03:3953 games.
03:40What, what, a three seed?
03:41Three seed.
03:42Zero votes?
03:43What do you mean?
03:44What do you mean?
03:45I'm going to get to the bottom of this.
03:47There's something going on.
03:49There's some dirty pool when it comes to Mike Brown.
03:52And I think I know what it is.
03:54What is it?
03:54I think it's the fact that he's got, uh, he's thick and he's got a round, cherubic face.
03:59I don't think the voters, like coaches, who are a little bit out of shape.
04:04Bickerstaff's a little out of shape.
04:06I've said it about Mike McCarthy in the NFL for years.
04:08He stinks.
04:09If Mike McCarty was thin, he'd be a Hall of Fame coach.
04:13We would talk about him the same way we talk about Drew, uh, John Drew Brees, uh, Sean Payton.
04:18Mike McCarty's record is the same as, uh, Sean Payton's.
04:22But no one talks about Mike McCarty that way because he's fat.
04:26It's body shaming.
04:28Andy Reid.
04:28Mike Brown's thick.
04:30Andy Reid.
04:30Mike Brown's big body shaming.
04:32So is Bickerstaff.
04:34Bickerstaff is just as big.
04:35He's younger, but he's just as big.
04:37And he got, you tell me.
04:39I'm not going to stand for it.
04:40If you were making the vote, okay, who would you vote?
04:44Who, who, that got votes in front of him?
04:46Yeah, I got it.
04:46I can't read that unless I'm reading it for you.
04:48Eula, Bickerstaff, and then Mike Johnson with the Spurs are all ahead of him, as they should
04:54be.
04:54The Spurs have maybe the most talented lineup in all basketball.
04:57They're the youngest team.
04:58How about that?
04:59They're the youngest team.
05:00How about that?
05:00He's coaching grown men.
05:02Doesn't matter.
05:04Doesn't matter.
05:05He's not out of shape.
05:06That's the problem.
05:07Oh, Charlotte's coach.
05:08You love the Hornets.
05:09We're fat shaming coaches.
05:11Charlotte's coach did a good job.
05:12He did a better job than Mike Brown?
05:14Yes.
05:14No, he did not.
05:16Yes, he did.
05:16Mike Brown underachieved in the regular season.
05:18They won 53 games.
05:20How many games do you want the guy to win?
05:2170?
05:2260, like the Pistons did, because they were better.
05:25Who else got votes there?
05:27I can't read that.
05:28You got Oklahoma City's coach.
05:30Can you make Oklahoma City, they got the MVP, and they're defending.
05:34I can see now.
05:35Tiago Splitter got some votes.
05:37The Phoenix coach got a vote?
05:39Portland.
05:40He's Portland.
05:40Phoenix did that overachieving year.
05:42They ain't Kevin Durant on that squad.
05:44No, they don't.
05:45He plays for Houston.
05:46Oh, yeah, my bad.
05:47That's all good.
05:47I take that back.
05:48Kenny Atkinson got some votes in the regular season.
05:51He won 50 games with that bump squad.
05:53J.J. Redick got three votes?
05:54Yes, the Lakers overachieved.
05:56The three seed for the Lakers?
05:58My goodness.
05:58Kenny Atkinson got votes?
05:59He deserved to be the regular season.
06:01Tyronn Lue got votes?
06:02Regular season.
06:04Roger Kasigalik in Toronto got votes?
06:06Yeah, they overachieved in the regular season.
06:07You're talking about nine seeds, ten seeds, eight seeds, seven seeds.
06:11Yeah, that's right.
06:12Mike Brown got screwed.
06:14No, he didn't.
06:14Mike Brown deserves at least one third place vote.
06:17No way.
06:18At least one.
06:18He wasn't a top five regular season coach.
06:20Shame on the voters.
06:21He wasn't a top five regular season coach.
06:24He's the number one playoff coach, so who cares?
06:26And I can't say they're racist because Missoula's black.
06:29Missoula's black.
06:30And Johnson's black.
06:30And Bickerstaff's black.
06:32And Bickerstaff's black.
06:33So it's all...
06:34It's got to be fat shaming.
06:37Bickerstaff is like his twin with a bald twin.
06:39Or maybe it's an anti-New York bias.
06:42Maybe that's what it is.
06:43Yeah, New York doesn't get nearly enough credit.
06:44I agree.
06:46New York doesn't get nearly enough credit.
06:46Man, that ticked me off when I saw that this morning.
06:49Mike Brown didn't get a vote.
06:51I wish I had a vote.
06:53Mike Brown gets a vote.
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