Where are you getting the voting numbers?

Found on Twitter.

Where? I haven't seen them.

Here's the voting for the 2019-20 NBL Coach of the Year.

Mike Kelly (Cairns) - 65 votes
Will Weaver (Sydney) – 39 votes
Trevor Gleeson (Perth) – 32 votes

These votes look just about right.

— Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) February 16, 2020

Yep, Fox Sports just posted an article with all the numbers.

Article on NBL.com.au also has the votes

It's a difficult award to rationalise.
Team goes from spoon to 3rd, so coach wins in a landslide. Why? Assumption is that it's all down to the coach???
Not saying I would have picked anyone else, just that it's a weird award.

Mike Kelly thoroughly deserving of the award.

Ball should not have got it considering the amount of games he missed.

Mike Kelly COTY. You're no Trevor Gleeson. And you're certainly no Will Weaver...but...at least you didn't suck as badly as last year. For next year maybe you could try playing more than your starters. So you wouldn't ruin the other 6 guys careers.

Playing the bench was what lost them all those games early in the season, you dolt.

You're right. Screw those other 6 players. Not a coaches job to help all his players Excell. Only yardstick is winning. Which makes Gleeson and Weaver better coaches. And you shortsighted. And kind of a dick.

It's a basketball team, not a charity.

Kelly the right choice.

Shamir 2nd for mine. Hopson, Loe, Delaney , Hampton and Webster missed 49 games between. It was early on missing Hopson, Loe and Delaney together that killed their season. Exceptional effort to recover and missing playoffs on percentage.

They were a tough team, full of veterans who can play in clutch situations and I would've loved seeing them go up against Sydney or Perth

"Shamir 2nd for mine."

Second half of the year, sure, but he didn't handle their adversity in the first half of the season well and the team fell apart on a number of occasions. His decision-making around Rice is probably what cost them a playoff spot in the end, that was extremely poor.

With his eye in about what's required I expect the Breakers to be very tough next season.

NBL - "Coaches and captains from each of the nine teams will now vote on the nominations with no coach or captain allowed to vote for a player from their own team."

Could make a case for Gleeson, Kelly, or Weaver, but I think the right guy won. Made a good call trimming the rotation and it paid dividends. Hopefully the last 2 games were an aberration however, because they've looked like the Illawarra Hawks.

[His decision-making around Rice is probably what cost them a playoff spot in the end]

I disagree- Loe, and Delaney were out together for a few games, in addition to Hopson. NZ had no hope of winning games with those 3 out, so they had to get someone in quick smart.

Rice wasn't actually a bad player. It was a regrettable decision for PR purposes due to his ill character.

As soon as he left, Hopson returned anyway. It’s unlikely they would’ve got any more wins if they’d brought in someone else.

Besides, if you criticise Shamir on personnel decisions, you gotta look both ways. He should get credit for bringing in Hopson and Henry. Two guys he knew from Israel. One close to MVP of the league, one a very valuable player for NZ.

Kelly not much good this weekend. Hard to see that reversed against Gleeson
at the next game

Yeah, but Bogut wasn't even the real MVP last season, winning it was in his contract or something, didn't you hear?

Bogut and Casper were top 2 MVP last year

Casper was all NBL first team the last 3 years in a row. How many players have ever achieved that? Probably no more than 10 or 15 players in the history of the NBL.

Add a gun import in Tate, 23 years old and ready to fire in his 2nd year as a pro.

Then add a deep squad full of quality role players. Weaver had it made.

"Rice wasn't actually a bad player. It was a regrettable decision for PR purposes due to his ill character."

Rice was a very good individual talent but a horrible player for the Breakers, his impact on team chemistry was a big negative and that influences on-court performance.

Shamir should have known better the first time, and definitely shouldn't have brought him back the second time. Horrible decision making that hurt his team.

The way the team wiltered under injury was a poor reflection on Shamir, and it's since emerged he was having a hard time winning the team over. That said, the way they galvanised around the midway point of the season and charged home is a very good reflection on Shamir.

So for me he has good and bad coming from this season, and the team should be better next season for what he has learned.

I see what you're saying Paul about Rice. Fair point. But judging the entirety of the season I'm more impressed by NZ going 15-13 considering the injuries and absences they faced, than I am by Sydney going 20-8 or Perth at 19-9.

Ware starts every season slowly and has had patches of poor form in each of the past 2 years. That's nothing new.

They have the best point guard in the comp (arguably 2nd now behind Machado, although Despite Machado's season given Wares long term record I'd sign him before Machado for next season).

And you also have Bogut. Then you already have no excuse not to do really well

Tate has a bright future ahead of him. As does Didi.

Newley, Kickert, Moller, Walker, Bruce all experienced, proven NBL players.

Taylor, another import, was going OK for Adelaide in pre season.

Cooks made the Boomers ahead of Creek and Motum.

Superstar talent at both ends of the floor. Championship winners. Leadership. Experience. Depth galore. The ability to sign whoever, whenever. World cup Boomer pick? Done. Import replacement for Lisch? Done. An NBA draftee in his 3rd pro season, as a *wink wink nudge nudge* "next star"? Done.

Kings had ome of the best rosters ever. Couple of injuries? Ok. Just sign quality replacements. Top up your roster with Xavier Cooks.

Don't understand why 20-8 is supposed to be super impressive with that team.

Gleeson rounds out my top 3.

Coach of the year gets beat by 36 in last game of regular season, comes in third and you're saying he's a better coach than a new guy who puts together May be the best team the nbl has seen in forever and does something no one in the nbl has ever done in 41 years? Really? Is everybody in Australia on crack?

"he's a better coach than a new guy who puts together May be the best team the nbl has seen in forever and does something no one in the nbl has ever done in 41 years?"

No, I'm saying the guy who took a team from 6-22 to 16-12 on a relatively small budget did a more impressive job than the guy who took a team from 18-10 to 20-8 on a massive budget.

Just got thumped by 36. Impressive. The difference is Sydney's bench. And pretty much all benches are paid the same. But not all benches can run up 50 plus on another team. Weaver should have got coach of the year just because he's so much better post game interviews then all the other coaches. By a country mile.

Why do people keep mentioning the last game?

They had nothing to play for, Machado and Oliver played less than half the game.

Who cares? It means nothing.

Actually, this is a good example of recency bias

Cairns has an awesome season exceeding all expectations

Get thumped in a meaningless last round junk game when they rested their stars. And people keep talking about it!

What that shows is how lost they are without their starters playing the whole game. Good luck against Perth. Their whole team can play.

Noi just missed what, 10 games? And they kept winning

Try putting together a team on a small town budget and winning games with your best 2 or 3 guys sitting on the bench. You're a tough cookie to please!

I think they meant Wheatus. He's just a teenage dirtbag, baby. Like you.

Nobody gave Weaver anything. There was only one player on contract, bogut. Weaver put that team together. 70% of a teams success is how it's put together. It was his existing relationship s and his ability to convince the players he wanted to sign on that made the difference. But if your grandmother can put that kind of team together and then coach them to better than 20-8 then I say the 36ers would love to meet her. Last summer he was a big part of the boomers being ranked 3rd in the world, and beating USA for the 1st time in history. And now when the national team needs a coach to bail them out and put a team together in 3 days they didn't ask any Kelly or Gleeson to do this suicide mission. It was the foreign guy whose been doing this kind of thing for free for the last 6 summers. When he should be getting ready for finals. I say our country owes him a huge amount of gratitude, not all the crap you see coming from idiots posting here.

So who is wheatus then?

Will Wheaton played a teenage dirtbag on The Next Generation.

Nobody gave Weaver anything.

"Nobody gave Weaver anything."

Pretty sure the Kings owner is the one who opened his chequebook for him and his squad.

Despite all the money spent by Paul White on the team Will "Mr Sheffield" Wheaton will always have a chip on his shoulder as he's no Andrew Lloyd Webber.