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#187: Evaluating NBA Coaches (Coach of the Year)

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🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

What makes a good coach? How can we evaluate NBA coaches? We tackle this and look at the historical patterns of Coach of the Year to gain some insight into how voters and fans (predictably) credit coaches. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

It'll be bumpy.

0:05.0

Speaking basketball podcast, my name is Ben.

0:10.0

Welcome back to another episode. Today we are going to tackle the incredibly

0:18.0

easy task of talking about how to evaluate coaches.

0:23.6

I don't know about you, Cody, but when I watch basketball,

0:28.1

I think my goodness, the players,

0:30.6

it's hard to figure out who's really the best player and how much someone moves the

0:34.5

needle but those coaches on the sideline I mean that's the easiest job in the world to evaluate

0:40.3

he should put this player in the game if he did it I think he's a good coach if he didn't probably needs to be fired he's the worst coach there is and

0:48.4

I don't know did he foul did he foul when he needed to foul up three? Maybe something like that?

0:54.0

Did he have a bad out of bounds play?

0:56.0

Why was this player on the court?

0:58.0

Why did he draw up the out of bounds play

1:00.0

for this player?

1:01.0

That's a bad coach.

1:02.0

Good coaches don't do that stuff. I've also

1:04.8

noticed good coaches have really good players. Yeah, how are we going to do this?

1:10.1

How are we going to figure out how in the world a basketball an NBA coach is is good as a job or not?

1:16.9

You know you'd think with an award where the acronym is just my name you know you'd think that I'd be better at coming up with an answer.

1:24.8

What do you, wait, what do you mean? The acronym is your name?

1:27.4

So Coach of the Year, if you say it, it's Cody, because you have the T in there.

1:31.4

Do you not include the T in the acronym?

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