After the Rookies and the Players of the Month, place at the last monthly award with the Coaches. Unsurprisingly, Monty Williams and Joe Mazzulla harvest the first laurels of the season.
If the choice of players can often be debated, the first award of the season among coaches is not so complicated to find. What do Joe Mazzulla and Monty Williams have in common? We let you watch the ranking, you have 4 hours. First in the East as in the West, the two tacticians logically collect the first award of the season. On paper, no scandal there, even if one could have imagined the NBA highlighting coaches who would have placed their teams above expectations at the start of the season, such as Rick Carlisle with Indiana or Willie Green with New Orleans by example. And no, Phoenix and Boston will therefore monopolize a second monthly reward out of three.
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— Phoenix Suns (@Suns) December 1, 2022
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— Boston Celtics (@celtics) December 1, 2022
Coach of the year in title, Monty Williams is obviously not at his first attempt. On the other hand, it is a great first for Joe Mazzulla, who is starting his first year in the NBA by pulling out all the stops. The one who is still only an interim is in the process of making Ime Udoka forget in Boston and it a small matter given the good last season. With 18 wins in 22 games, the young coach (34 years old) of the Celtics proves in any case that he has the shoulders for the job and his group seems to totally adhere to his speech and his methods. What if a rookie coach became Coach Of the Year? It is far from impossible.
Other coaches to have received votes according to the NBA: Chauncey Billups (Trail Blazers), Mike Brown (Kings), Willie Green (Pelicans), Will Hardy (Jazz), Taylor Jenkins (Grizzlies), Michael Malone (Nuggets) JB Bickerstaff ( Cavaliers), Mike Budenholzer (Bucks) and Rick Carlisle (Pacers).
Source texte : NBA