 What's the word, y'all? Welcome back to NBA Award Week. I know this is a little bit confusing to you because the title has nothing to do with awards, but you know what I just figured out? You know, for the last two days of me doing these awards, what I found out was majority of people don't care about awards nearly as much as I do. And that was actually a surprise. And I'm talking about through the statistics of how many people are watching this compared to a normal video versus with the comment section of saying, I'm low key, maybe impressed that y'all not that much of psychos like me and some of the other homies. I mean, well, there are the people that once you snub one of their favorite players, they're at your mentions or in the comment section. That's completely understandable. I mean, overall, we dropped the video on defensive player at year. We dropped the video on Ricky of the Year. People are like, oh, okay, cool. And I just expected a little bit more. I'm not mad, you know what I'm saying? I'm not upset at all. I'm just coming into a realization. Okay, so we are back with another episode in this Award Week. And today we're talking about Coats of the Year. Coats of the Year is always an interesting one because sometimes the defaults to, who is the coach of the best team in the NBA? And sometimes the defaults to who is the team that overachieved more than anything. Last year was Tom Thibodeau with the New York Knicks and that makes sense to me. He got my vote because the Knicks were not expected to be a playoff team and there they were in the playoffs comfortably. This year, I'm getting straight to the winner. For me, Monty Williams is my coach of the year. But there are a lot of other coaches out there that deserve some recognition that if this person won, I wouldn't be upset. But I just, I feel like this is gonna, I'm gonna sell like Devin Booker right now. If we don't give Monty Williams this award, it feels like we're moving to goal post, right? Because even though the Suns just left the finals last season, they even exceeded all of the expectations for all of us. I went back and we're gonna look through some of these articles, but I went back and just went through a different articles that would be Bleach Report, whether it be this public ESPN or all the other publications where people were trying to predict the records of teams. And a lot of people expected the Phoenix Suns to be a 51 team. Now, I know that it's crazy to say that it's allowed right now because the team has exceeded that dramatically and nobody's even better than that. But a lot of people expected this team to be like a 51 team coming off them, coming out of the championship, which is wild. And here they are exceeding that above and beyond with their top three players playing minutes together for sure, but only playing like 20-ish, 30 games together this entire season. I think Monty Williams deserves it. He should be running away with it, but there are some other teams out there. Like if you want to tell me that Eric Sposier deserves to win Coach of the Year, I can't even be mad at you. He is in a similar situation than Monty Williams in the sense that his top three players, Cal LaRubin, Montabayo and Jimmy Butler, missed significant amount of time. And he was finding people like Max Drews. He was finding people like who else? Caleb Martin to come out of nowhere and give them super quality minutes. That's good coaching. If you wanted to tell me it was Eme Udoka, I think he has the most unique case of them all from a guy that seemed like he was on the hot seat. If you asked their fans a month and a half into the season, to a dude that solidified himself is like one of the better defensive coaches in the league. And the second half jump that they had, I think he should be in some consideration. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't smooth. He went through obstacles. He went over speed bumps. He went through all of that. If you wanted to put JB Biggerstaff in a conversation, I understand now the case of JB Biggerstaff is getting worse and worse every day. It's not a fault of his own because he can't keep his team healthy. But the fact that this team came into the scene and at one point they were one of the top three Cs in the entire conference when they were healthy, I think he deserves some consideration. If you wanted to say Taylor Jenkins was your guy, man, this team is 20 and two when Jameret hasn't played. That's a testament to great team building, great chemistry in the locker room and great coaching. I can't be mad at those. But Mani is still my guy. So like I said, in preparation for this video, I went back to look at some of the other predictions that we saw. So I decided to pull up one from Leachapur from Andy Bailey. I do want to go out on a limb and say, this is not as making fun of Andy Bailey or anybody that made predictions because predictions are hard to make. We're going to be wrong on predictions like 80% of the time because the NBA and sports in general, just such an unpredictable thing. And that's why we watch it. If we could accurately predict every single thing, you wouldn't watch the thing. Every NBA team's win-loss prediction after the schedule release. Of course, Andy Bailey put it together, shout out to him. And LeBron and Giannis are on the thing. So I don't know if they was trying to say that LeBron and Giannis are going to be winning their conferences. But as it sits right now, if that was your prediction, that's both wrong at the moment. The Bucks, they have a chance, but it's wrong at this exact moment. All right, here we go. In the Atlantic division, people predicted that the Brooklyn Nets were going to win 54 games. Wow. Now this video has turned into like a retrospective of the entire season because, well, this felt like an acceptable thing because nowhere in the world that we really think about James Harden decided that he did not want to play for the team or the fact that there was going to be a mandate that predicted Harry Irving for playing for 60% of the season. And here we are with them projected to be the number one team in their division for them to be a playing team locked in and the playing team right now is such a weird thing. The 76 prediction is almost spot on. Right now they have 49 wins with a couple of games left for the season. So they're probably going to end up at 50 and maybe 51, which is, it's a very, very good prediction, but it's almost, it's such a great testament to this guy right here and his ability to maintain greatness in the face of a lot of locker room stuff. Ben Simmons was a big distraction, the story of Ben Simmons was a big distraction this entire season. Joel and B said, I don't really care, I'm gonna go out there and be in conversation for MVP. Then eventually they make the big trade and they've been good since the trade, before the trade, all of that is true. Next, we got the Boston Celtics who at this point have exceeded these expectations. Woo, woo, woo, shout out to Boston Celtics nations. Green nation, Celtic nation sounds about right. Celtic nation, the Knicks was projected to be 10 games over 500 and boy, them boys failed. They are about 10 games under 500 and actually right before I started to record in this video they blew a game to New York. Oh, nope, not the New York anymore. Nope, nope, not New York. The Brooklyn, New York Nets. And that was a very great comeback by the Nets because they needed that one to not, they haven't secured anything, but that loss with the Atlanta Hawks win could have put the Brooklyn Nets on the bottom two of the playoffs, which means they didn't have to win two games to qualify instead of just one. So that's a big win with a couple of games left for the season. The Toronto Raptors exceeded all expectations, projected to win 34 games and they went out there and won over 46. Shout out to them. A lot of that has to do with that young boy that ain't even here because they didn't even expect the young boy out there to do his thing. You tell that I'm Team Scotty Barnes on a lot of different things. Milwaukee Bucks, this is a little bit less, this is a little bit more than what they actually won, but Brick Lopez going out his injury very early on and then went some championship fatigue. This team didn't have their foot on the gas the entire season. So I don't mind them being a couple of games off because, you know what I'm saying? That felt like the right prediction. They expected the Bulls to be a 47-win team, which is actually higher than I feel like most people who had the Bulls. I think when I turn on the TV, a lot of people on TV or read articles, listen to podcasts, a lot of people are like, oh, what the Bulls did was cool and all, bringing the Marta Rosen in and boom, boom. But like, this is probably a team that's going to be a 500 team. And guess what? We're a little bit better than that. We're a little bit better than that. All of our events that say that we're a 500 team, but the Marta Rosen has taken over so many fourth quarters that he's got his 10th game is over 500. So yeah, shout out to the Bulls. Playoff, secured. You feel me? Who we going against in that first round? Might have a cakewalk, but playoffs secured. I'm actually so very invested in the fact that the Bulls are about to make history. Like I said, did make history today. You know what? In fact, check, this is something that Statmuse probably would have tweeted. To be a six seed, but also have just one win against the top eight teams in the league has to be a statistic that has never happened in the history of basketball. And oh, no, you know what? I'll take that back. It might have happened because sometimes conferences are so bad that a seven seed, six seed could be like a below 500 team. How about a team that was 10 games over 500 and had one win versus the top eight teams in the league? That has to be a statistical anomaly. And as much as I hate it as a Bulls fan, I'm low key impressed. I had, oh, let's keep the F bombs down. And how bad this team is against good teams because it's not just like, oh man, we almost got them this time. Boys are getting spanked. They don't even come to play against good team. We like the average margin of loss against these good teams is like 15 points. Ain't been in one game against a good team other than early Celtics, which don't even count because it was early Celtics where I felt confident that we might have a chance. The best it got is like earlier in the season when we thought that the Lakers were good and then we beat them two times. We're like, oh, oh, and then we found out that the Lakers are a bad team. So those wins mean nothing. The Pacers were projected to be a playoff team, but then things went bad. I remember early in the season, the Pacers beat the Bulls and they beat them bad. They beat them about like 30. And then Pacers fans were in the mints. It's like, aha, Kenny, yeah. Like giving me Fortnite dance gifts and stuff. And it was because a couple of days before that I had tweeted something like, the Pacers are bogus because they blew like a 15 point lead to like a bad team. And it was in the moment tweet that said the Pacers are bogus because in that moment they were bogus. If you're blowing a 15 point lead to a bad team, you're bogus, right? And then all the Pacers fans came at me. All right, Kenny, who bogus now? And I'm good with some good old smack talk. But what did I reply? Y'all gonna be rebuilding soon. And guess what y'all doing? You feel me? Poke the bell. I really enjoy your rebuild so far though. Tyrese is the homie. I'm gonna drive to Indiana next season to watch Tyrese play a couple of games. Or since I was in the same division I could just go to the UC. The Cavaliers were expected to win 25 games. 25, right now they're at 43. They have almost got 20 more wins that they were projected on the season. That is an insane amount. Development isn't always linear but it's probably safe to expect some improvement from Colin Sexton, Darius Garland. That's understated because Darius Garland turned into a demigod. And Isaac Ocaro with the addition of Evan Moby that sounds like a recipe for a notable team improvement too. However, several organizations in Eastern Conference took dramatic steps forward and they just didn't expect the Cavs to do anything. This, hey, JB Biggerstaff, you might win Coach of the Year, my boy, to be 20 games over which you were projected to win. They got the Detroit Pins at 23 and they have 23 exactly with two games left for the season. And the Cade actually played today. I was gonna say they not playing nobody but the Cade played today. Moving on to the Western Conference, the Jazz were projected to win 73. They're about five games over that. I don't have anything to say about the Utah Jazz in a moment. The Tigers were projected to win 49 and there are two games under that with two games to go so it's a possibility. Portland, Big Miss makes sense though with Dame going out with his injury and then them deciding to be like, are we gonna reset everything? It makes sense that most people were wrong. I was wrong on this one. I don't think many people expected them to hit a full, not a close to full reset by trading CG and all of that. Minnesota Timbers exceeding expectations expect to be a below 500 team. And while they're 10 games over at this moment and with two games left, O.K.C. expected, I don't know, O.K.C. expected to win 17 but they got 24 of them things. Give coach Mark Dayton, Mark, Mark Dolch, Dayton, Mark D give him close to the year exceeding the expectations as well. This was the biggest miss of course but again, this is not on Andy Bailey. I think majority of us predicted that the Lakers are gonna be good. Some of us didn't think they were gonna be championship good but some of us thought they would be good enough to at the bare minimum be a playoff team and they did not exceed in that whatsoever with the record of 31 wins on the season right now. Kind of tough. The Warriors were projected to win 50 games and with three games left for the season, this is a good prediction, man. That's a very, very good prediction. The Suns, like I said, here it is. The Suns at 50 and they are 13 games over that right now and they're losing to the Clippers so a couple of games left for the season. I would expect them to rest a little bit for these last couple of games but a 63 win team at the moment is insane. It's not a ton of teams in NBA history to do that, to win 60s or games. There's not a ton of teams in NBA history to be in the finals the year before that go out there and win 60 games and most of the teams that have done that went on to win the championship. I think the only one that didn't were the Maverick. I was listening to Zach Lowe's podcast. It was like a week ago and they were talking about this. It might have been the Mavericks the year that they lost to the, so we believe Warriors. Either way, Clippers at 43 wins. They're a little bit less than that but I guess they didn't expect Paul George to miss that much time. Paul George would likely have an MVP finalist version of himself, sure. Kings 33 wins, you overshot it my boy. I'm sorry, you overshot it. That's crazy that you still overshot the Kings. Next we have the Miami Heat. I thought we were done with this conference but nope, we back to the Miami Heat who were projected to win 48 and they have exceeded that. The Atlanta Hawks have disappointed but you know what, they're playing some of their best basketball at the right time so it's okay. The Charlotte Hornets protected to be a slightly above and that's actually a good prediction with three games left. But then again, the Charlotte Hornets are just so average that maybe they end up at 500 once it's all said and done. The Wizards expected to be a 500 team. You know what, I was looking at the standings and I have not watched a lot of Watch The Wizards since Bradley Beale went down. They're a better team than I expected them to be after the Bradley Beale injury and after the poor Zingers trade. Something might be brewing over there a little bit and then we have the Orlando Magic at 17. They got 21. The last division is the Dallas Mavericks at 49 and they ended up having 50 right now with a couple games left for the season. Shout out to that man, that smiling man right there because he's a big portion of this. Here's another one. Here's another one. At this moment in time, this team is 13 games over what they were projected to win and that's still with a couple games left for the season. 13 games over projection. Like I said, if Taylor Jenkins is the guy you have as a coach of the year, I can't be mad. I'm still having Monty but I cannot be mad because this is also an insane number right there. Pelik is 42. I think this is before they knew that Zion was gonna be out for the entire season. So 42 is actually not that bad of a guess because I feel like if Zion was there, 42 is very gettable. Here go to Spurs, Greg Popovich exceeding expectations and then the Rock is exceeded. The bottom of the bottoms always exceeded. It looks like they just undervalued these teams. 17 wins, 18 wins. A lot of teams didn't do that this season. Everybody had at least 20. Gave the fans at least 20 games worth of basketball to watch and be excited about. So I don't know, Ramble video a little bit, going through a little bit of revisionist history. Monty Williams is my coach of the year and that's what this video is really about.