2017-18 NBA Regular Season Game/Observation Thread

HomeRunBaker

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Not sure where this goes (putting it here by default)......

Horford will receive at least one 3rd Team All-NBA vote as Rob Mahoney posted his ballot on Twitter. Horford also made his 2nd Team All-Defense.


Other Celtics on his ballot:
Stevens: 2nd behind Brown for COY
Tatum: 3rd in ROY and 1st Team All-Rookie
 

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Well luckily it will be an easy one to determine....if Tatum doesn't get more 1stsecond place vote, but one of the others gets a third than the voters would not agree that Tatum has a better case for 2nd than the others have for third. Happy to admit I'm wrong if Tatum gets equal/more seconds than the other guys get thirds, or sweeps the third place vote.
Happy to report I was wrong here....Tatum was left off 4 of the 101 ballots, but his complete destruction of Kuzma/DSJ (101 to 3 and 1 respectively) and an unexpected (by me) 2 second place votes puts this one in the loss column for me. Glad to see the voters not swayed by just the shiny point/rebound/assist numbers.
 

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I am not 100% sure how NBA Coach of the Year voting works but Brad Stevens received a total of 65 votes for 1st-3rd place (203 points).

Quin had a total of 73 votes (217 points) and Casey received 82 votes (292 points).

If I am understanding this voting correctly, how did Brad get left off of at least 17 ballots completely?
What league were the voters watching?
 

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I am not 100% sure how NBA Coach of the Year voting works but Brad Stevens received a total of 65 votes for 1st-3rd place (203 points).

Quin had a total of 73 votes (217 points) and Casey received 82 votes (292 points).

If I am understanding this voting correctly, how did Brad get left off of at least 17 ballots completely?
What league were the voters watching?
It’s worse than you think. There are 100 voters/ballots. So Casey was left off 18 ballots while Brad was left off of 35. This was always going to be one of the closest races without a lot of consensus. Ballots were all over the place.
 

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I am not 100% sure how NBA Coach of the Year voting works but Brad Stevens received a total of 65 votes for 1st-3rd place (203 points).

Quin had a total of 73 votes (217 points) and Casey received 82 votes (292 points).

If I am understanding this voting correctly, how did Brad get left off of at least 17 ballots completely?
What league were the voters watching?
1st - 5 pts
2nd - 3 pts
3rd - 1 pt

They were watching Casey, Snyder, and Brown while intrigued by McMillan, Popovich, Stotts, and D'Antoni too. With the Top 4 guys ahead of the field someone had to lose a few 2nd and 3rd place votes between the top 3 finishers.
 

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I am not 100% sure how NBA Coach of the Year voting works but Brad Stevens received a total of 65 votes for 1st-3rd place (203 points).

Quin had a total of 73 votes (217 points) and Casey received 82 votes (292 points).

If I am understanding this voting correctly, how did Brad get left off of at least 17 ballots completely?
What league were the voters watching?
Ask Ted Williams.

Edit: @OnWisc has in the past proposed a system for HoF voting in baseball whereby, if you didn't vote for someone who gets a certain percentage of the vote--something really high--you have to defend your vote in writing and let the rest of the voters vote on whether or not you get to keep your vote. I like it.
 

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Interesting that Gary Washburn left Stevens off his ballot. Gary's a pretty good observer of the game.
 

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I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with thinking that Stevens did the 4th best job in the NBA this year. I would have voted for Snyder, D'Antoni, Stevens, in that order, but could see someone preferring to give a vote to Casey.
 

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Interesting that Gary Washburn left Stevens off his ballot. Gary's a pretty good observer of the game.
Washburn left Casey off as well. That's the thing with the voting this year.....you can leave them both off, vote Brown McMillan and Snyder while logically making a case for it.

I was actually surprised McMillan didn't get more votes.