{"id":154413,"date":"2020-06-24T20:20:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=154413"},"modified":"2020-06-24T20:20:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:20:51","slug":"salt-lake-city-stars-martin-schiller-named-2019-20-nba-g-league-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/salt-lake-city-stars-martin-schiller-named-2019-20-nba-g-league-coach-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake City Stars\u2019 Martin Schiller named 2019-20 NBA G League Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Martin Schiller of the Salt Lake City Stars has been named the 2019-20 NBA G League Dennis Johnson Coach of the Year, the NBA G League announced today.\u00a0 Schiller earned the honor in a vote by the league\u2019s 28 head coaches and general managers.<\/p>\n<p>In his third season as head coach of the Utah Jazz\u2019s NBA G League affiliate, Schiller guided the Stars to the best record in the Western Conference (30-12, .714).\u00a0 Salt Lake City improved on last season\u2019s winning percentage of .540 (27-23).<\/p>\n<p>The Stars excelled on defense under Schiller, ranking second in the NBA G League in points allowed (106.1) and fourth in defensive rating (105.0).\u00a0 They held opponents to the third-lowest field goal percentage (44.5) and the lowest three-point field goal percentage (31.4).\u00a0 On offense, Salt Lake City ranked third in the NBA G League in both field goal percentage (48.0) and three-point field goal percentage (36.8).<\/p>\n<p>Schiller was selected as the NBA G League Coach of the Month for December after guiding Salt Lake City to a league-best 9-1 record, including a 4-0 mark on the road. \u00a0The Stars won 14 consecutive games from Nov. 15 to Dec. 27, tying the second-longest single-season winning streak in NBA G League history.\u00a0 They also won their final six games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>With Schiller at the helm, Salt Lake City won the 2019 MGM Resorts NBA G League Winter Showcase in December in Las Vegas.\u00a0 Schiller coached two players who earned GATORADE Call-Ups this season, William Howard (Houston Rockets) and Juwan Morgan (Jazz).<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the Stars, the Austrian-born Schiller served as an assistant coach in the German Bundesliga with MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg (2015-17) and Artland Dragons (2010-15).\u00a0 He has been an assistant coach for the German National Team since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA G League Coach of the Year Award is named for the late Hall of Famer Dennis Johnson, a star NBA guard and NBA G League coach.\u00a0 During his playing career with the Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns and Seattle SuperSonics, Johnson won three NBA championships, earned five NBA All-Star selections and was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team six times. \u00a0He was in his third season coaching in the NBA G League when he passed away in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Buford of the Wisconsin Herd and Nate Reinking of the Canton Charge finished second and third, respectively, in voting for the 2019-20 NBA G League Coach of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA G League canceled the remainder of its 2019-20 season on June 4.\u00a0 The regular season was suspended on March 12 and had been scheduled to conclude on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NBA G League Dennis Johnson Coach of the Year Award Winners<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2019-20: Martin Schiller, Salt Lake City Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2018-19: Will Weaver, Long Island Nets<\/p>\n<p>2017-18: Mike Miller, Westchester Knicks<\/p>\n<p>2016-17: Jerry Stackhouse, Raptors 905<\/p>\n<p>2015-16: Dan Craig, Sioux Falls Skyforce<\/p>\n<p>2014-15: Scott Morrison, Maine Red Claws<\/p>\n<p>2013-14: Conner Henry, Fort Wane Mad Ants<\/p>\n<p>2012-13: Alex Jensen, Canton Charge<\/p>\n<p>2011-12: Eric Musselman, Los Angeles D-Fenders<\/p>\n<p>2010-11: Nick Nurse, Iowa Energy<\/p>\n<p>2009-10: Chris Finch, Rio Grande Valley Vipers<\/p>\n<p>2008-09: Quin Snyder, Austin Toros<\/p>\n<p>2007-08: Bryan Gates, Idaho Stampede<\/p>\n<p>2006-07: Bryan Gates, Idaho Stampede<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join us in congratulating Martin Schiller, the 2019-20 Dennis Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbagleague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nbagleague<\/a> Coach of the Year! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D5ZmcV6pc4\">pic.twitter.com\/D5ZmcV6pc4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Salt Lake City Stars (@slcstars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slcstars\/status\/1275852301840809986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Schiller at the helm, Salt Lake City won the 2019 MGM Resorts NBA G League Winter Showcase in December in Las Vegas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[395],"tags":[2724,13776],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-154413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g-league","tag-nba-g-league-en","tag-salt-lake-city-stars"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154413"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=154413"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=154413"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=154413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}