Rachel Nichols

I mean, he was really the engine behind that.

People talked to him about gap year right after Tatum got hurt, and he was like,

We're not doing that, right?

And they got to the number two seed.

It was a really incredible story.

So I think, Coach, great.

Great Coach of the Year vote.

Joe Mazzulla, on the other hand, does not think this.

Take a listen to what he said back in March.

Wow.

Now he did have to get asked about it again because he won the award and the NBA wanted him on TV to talk about it.

He walked it back like the littlest bit.

I mean, he didn't call it, this is stupid.

This is dumb, which is what he said in that clip.

But he did say he would rather it be an all staff award, which I can see you could, you could change it to like coaching staff of the year or something.

So now we did this with MVP and a couple other awards, six-man, all NBA.

I'm going to ask you, is this an award they should have announced before the playoffs?

Because I think most people would agree it would have been Missoula.

But then blowing a 3-1 lead to the Sixers, I mean, seeing what Mitch Johnson did when their win total was like nowhere near 60, whatever they got to.

I mean, again, I know it's hindsight, but like to me,