Chapter 1280 Big Phil’s New Era

At 12:30, Ji Feng arrived at Zen Master's villa in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Zen Master personally welcomed Ji Feng into the door. Ji Feng hugged Zen Master and gave him a gift: "Congratulations, coach! They made the right choice this time."

"Hahahaha, I've been bearish for a long time. It's just a false name. Come in quickly, I'll be waiting for you." The Zen Master said with a smile. Although he said he was bearish, his red face didn't look like he was bearish at all. .

However, Ji Feng also fully understands that Zen Master is not that easy to win this award. Just look at the current news. Zen Master’s winning of the award has become the hottest news in the American sports world at the moment.

In the voting for the best coach, 55 out of a total of 122 sports reporters and broadcasters gave Jackson their first choice, which gave him a cumulative 355 points and ranked first.

When it comes to which award is the most difficult to win in the NBA, different people may have different opinions. Some may say it is the Rookie of the Year, because players only have one chance in their life. If you can’t win it, you will never win it. For example, Corvo missed out on the Rookie of the Year award, and some would say that of course it is the MVP, because it does not measure one or two games, but the performance of an entire season, and compared with other awards, the MVP measures a player. From offense to defense to team record and other aspects, it can be called the most comprehensive award, and these all have their own reasons.

And if it comes to the most difficult award to win in the NBA, it is undoubtedly the best coach!

Among the major awards at the end of the NBA season, whether regular season MVP, best defensive player, or even best sixth man, there have been consecutive wins, but this Coach of the Year award is an exception.

The NBA Coach of the Year Award is an award given every year since the 1962-1963 season to the head coach with the best coaching performance in the NBA regular season. The winner will receive the Reed Auerbach Trophy, which is named after It was named after Cardinal Reed Auerbach, the Celtics head coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships from 1956 to 1966. This was also the first time Auerbach coached for several years. Immortal achievements created in the position.

Since the establishment of this award, it has been awarded to more than 30 different coaches. There are many famous names, such as Popovich, Don Nelson and Pat Riley, etc. They have all created their own achievements. legendary record.

For example, Nelson is the one who has been elected the most times. He has won it three times, and Riley has also won it three times. Moreover, he is the only coach who has won the award three times and coached different teams each time. Bill Sharman and Lenny Wilkens is the coach who won the award and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player and coach respectively. Johnny Kerr is the only coach whose winning rate is less than 50% to win the award. Because Johnny Kerr led the Bulls, who entered the NBA in their first year, to the NBA playoffs.

But no coach has ever achieved re-election.

ESPN once said: "The most difficult record to break in the NBA is not on the court, but off the court." This is the award.

And when you see the last person, you will understand why it is difficult for anyone to win this award again. The reason is very simple. This Coach of the Year Award has a relatively large reference before and after, and is very close to the Most Improved Award of the Year among coaches.

This award is generally awarded to those head coaches who have "exceeded people's expectations for the team's results."

However, the problem lies in this. Often a head coach can get good results in the first year, but people's expectations for him are different in the second year, so it is difficult to get. For example, people think that a certain team's cards The previous lineup could only get 30 wins, but the head coach led the team to 50 wins, so he can win the award. Next year, everyone's expectation for him is 50 wins, unless he leads the team to 70 wins all at once. This is very difficult.

The best example is 2006 Raptors head coach Sam Michel. He led the Raptors to a record of 47 wins and 35 losses that year, which was not very good, but he led the Raptors back to the playoffs as the top spot in the Atlantic Division, adding a lot of impression points, so He finally surprised everyone and won the best coach award that year.

However, it is worth mentioning that this old man will be fired by the Raptors due to poor record next season. He was the best coach the year before and lost his job the next year. This award is really magical.

And here we have to talk about Phil Jackson. As we all know, Phil Jackson is an excellent coach. He has led the Bulls and Lakers to achieve three consecutive championships successively. Last season, he also led the Lakers to achieve renaissance and rejuvenation. He has reached the top of the league and holds 10 championship rings. He is the veritable king of rings in the coaching world.

The techniques and tactics he created, such as the triangle offense, are also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As long as fans who like basketball, few know about it.

Logically speaking, such a coach should have won the Best Coach Award many times, but the fact is cruel, he has not!

Jackson has only won the award of the best head coach twice so far, excluding last year. In his most prosperous years, only in 1996 when he led the Bulls to an unprecedented 72 wins, he won the first award in his life. A best coach award, even when he led the Lakers to the first dynasty in the new century and led OKC to sweep the league in the three years, he missed this award.

Even if you open Hupu or other forums, you will see a famous question: "Master Zen is so strong, why has he only won the best coach once?"

The answers are also varied, some are good and some are bad. I won’t do any popular science here. Those who are interested can check it out by themselves. In short, everyone will understand that this award has nothing to do with Zen masters.

So it wasn't until Jackson led the Lakers to 70 wins last season when he was not favored that he finally conquered the judges and won this award again.

This season, the Lakers achieved a great feat of 75 wins, but they actually did not expect that they would have the chance to win this award again. Although Jackson was among the candidates for the third-place tie, he was still competing with Nuggets head coach George Karl and Cavaliers head coach Mike Compared with Brown, the Lakers' record improvement is the smallest.

In addition, Zen Master had already won it last year, so the other two are people's favorites.

But some people are optimistic about Jackson. After all, the unprecedented 75 wins is really too dazzling. The Los Angeles Sports News once published an article saying: "The coach who leads the team to 75 wins and 7 losses is not the best head coach, so this award still exists. Does it mean anything?”

I have to say that this sentence has been recognized by many people. After all, this is still called the Best Coach Award.

When Gyantse County was finally announced, there was an uproar across the board, but it was also justified, and major media outlets also expressed their congratulations.

The title of Tencent Sports is the most outstanding: "Unprecedented defense of the title, Phil opens a new era of coaching career!"