On Tuesday, Sam Mitchell was named the NBA coach of the year. Sam was a former player in the NBA and has been coaching the Toronto Raptors for three years. His first season coaching, the Raptors were 33-49 and his second season the Raptors were 27-55. This season the Raptors finished with a franchise tying best record of 47-35 and first in the Atlantic Division.
Sam won the coach of the year award with a total of 394 points in balloting by basketball writers and broadcasters. His coaching was very impressive, since the Raptors added nine new faces before this season. The ability to make a team successful with new players takes a lot of talent and Sam really portrayed his coaching skill of developing team chemistry.
Sam received this award with much class and feels the award should be given to the whole franchise, as he said "I feel like the whole organization should be behind me, the players, the front office people, the equipment managers." Sam Mitchell is well deserving of this award and hopefully can lead the Toronto Raptors to the NBA finals.
What do you think?
3 comments:
Sam Mitchell was definitely the clear-cut choice for coach of the year. The Raptors had the number one overall pick last year and are now the 3rd seed in the East. Mitchell led a great turnaround.
The next job for the NBA is to move the Raptors out of Canada. Stupid Canadians don't know what they're talking aboot ey...
Hey Larry Bird, bring Sam Mitchell to Indy to revive the franchise. That or move to Las Vegas.
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