NBA Coach Of The Year: 2015-16

#3 - Brad Stevens (Boston Celtics)

Brad Stevens

Welcome to the Terror Dome! That’s what the TD Garden, home of the Boston Celtics, has transformed into. Teams are engulfed by the wave of defensive frenzy that the Celtics unleash upon them with the three-guard combo of Avery Bradley, Marcus Smart and Isaiah Thomas along with the numerous versatile bigs. The man at the helm of it all is the rather baby-faced Brad Stevens, the youngest head coach in the NBA.

Three years since coming into the league as a head coach with no previous NBA experience, he has shaped the Celtics into playoff contenders from what was a team going through a turnover after the Pierce-Garnett-Allen era. The first two years, he spent in finding the right pieces to make this team complete and this year, the results have been phenomenal.

He’s made an All-Star out of Thomas, found and developed a great two-way player in Jae Crowder, whose defense is amongst the best and made great use of the talents of big men Kelly Olynyk, Jared Sullinger and Amir Johnson. Johnson is a traditional big, predominantly playing around the basket, but Sullinger and Olynyk can shoot from distance and space the floor.

He’s got Evan Turner playing in the sixth man role, possibly a contender for Sixth Man of the Year honours. Incredibly, the Cs are top 5 in points per game (105.7 – 5th) and sixth in rebounds and assists. Stevens believes in being unoriginal as he absorbs and adopts plays and tactics from his peers around the league.

Stevens could potentially be the next great coach in this league.