By Lefteris Moutis / moutis@eurohoops.net
After winning all the competitions that Real Madrid took part, Pablo Laso was without doubt the coach of the season. Euroleague gave to the Spanish coach the “Alexander Gomelsky” award.
Pablo Laso has been voted as coach of the season in the Euroleague with Giannis Sfairopoulos of Olympiacos and Sasa Obradovic of Alba Berlin following him.
The Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year Trophy, voted each season by the Turkish Airlines Euroleague head coaches, pays tribute to the coaching legend who won the first three Euroleague titles, from 1958 to 1960, with ASK Riga. He passed away in 2005 at age 77. Since then, the award has been handed out to the best head coach of each Euroleague season, as voted by his peers.
Pini Gershon of Maccabi Tel Aviv was the inaugural winner in 2005. Ettore Messina of CSKA Moscow won in 2006 and 2008, while Zeljko Obradovic of Panathinaikos also won twice, in 2007 and 2011. Dusko Vujosevic won with Partizan in 2009; the 2010 winner was Xavi Pascual of Regal FC Barcelona; Dusan Ivkovic of Olympiacos Piraeus was awarded and Georgios Bartzokas, both of Olympiacos, won in 2012 and 2013, respectively, while David Blatt of Maccabi was the 2014 award winner.