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Cavs 09-10 Season (official thread)

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Buckeye89Fan;1618803; said:
Cavs are killing it on D right now. And the passes I've seen in the second half are NIIIICE!
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When they focus and come to play, I think they can beat anyone in the league. I think the biggest indicator that we will have of how far this team can go will be on Christmas Day against the Lakers. It will be a huge game and they should both come to play.
 
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And LBJ's on the bench...??? 7 minutes to go in the 4th with only a 4 point lead and you have James on the bench... I just don't get it.

EDIT: and as soon as I start my rant, in comes James... Haha... Guess I need to rant more.
 
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Buckeye89Fan;1618809; said:
And LBJ's on the bench...??? 7 minutes to go in the 4th with only a 4 point lead and you have James on the bench... I just don't get it.

EDIT: and as soon as I start my rant, in comes James... Haha... Guess I need to rant more.
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That's just the usual rotation. It makes very little sense, but Mike Brown is committed to it. Even if it means blowing a lead, the opposing team extending their lead, etc...
 
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Buckeye89Fan;1618814; said:
OUCH! Jemario Moon takes a kick to the jewels.
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In the family jewels?
 
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billmac91;1618810; said:
That's just the usual rotation. It makes very little sense, but Mike Brown is committed to it. Even if it means blowing a lead, the opposing team extending their lead, etc...
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actually, the team went on a run with james on the bench, and once he came back in rested, they extended the lead. you need a new schtick when it comes to the cavs.
 
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tsteele316;1618824; said:
actually, the team went on a run with james on the bench, and once he came back in rested, they extended the lead. you need a new schtick when it comes to the cavs.
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you comment on everything as it happens...big picture, it hasn't worked well. Sitting your star player until the 7-7:30 mark of the 4th quarter will never make sense to me. It isn't a schtick as much as it is common sense...
 
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tsteele316;1618841; said:
and because at times, cleveland's ball movement is substantially better with lebron off the court, especially when cleveland can run mo and delonte together.
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Sure the ball movement was great at times... But I thought for a remote second that Cleveland was on the power play... And couldn't recover...


Oh... Wrong sport. But honestly, was Portland afraid of AV or something? They didn't want anything to do with him late in the 3rd and most of the 4th. He may have shot 100% in the 4th quarter mainly because he shot uncontested layup after uncontested layup.
 
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tsteele316;1618824; said:
actually, the team went on a run with james on the bench, and once he came back in rested, they extended the lead. you need a new schtick when it comes to the cavs.
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I like Phil Jackson's style...he gets a feel for the game and substitutes as he sees fit. You can argue Mike Brown's philosophy creates consistency for the bench and players know exactly when they'll be called upon, but I will forever think it is idiotic. When the Cavs are in a tight game, and the opposing team goes on a 10-2 run, and the lead has been extended to 16 with LeBron on the bench, I'm going to question it...I see no reason why LeBron has to sit for a 6 minute stretch that seemingly creates closer games than need be...how about a 2 minute blow once in a while instead of end of third, almost half the 4th?

The book on Jackson says he doesn't like to play young guys. But he goes to Brown (who wasn't even a Laker until early February and who hadn't yet logged 1,000 NBA minutes coming into the playoffs) for a key second-half stretch in Game 5 against Denver. Conventional wisdom is that he never deviates from the triangle offense, but he has Bryant and Gasol run the high-screen-roll for the vast majority of Game 1 against Orlando. Substitution patterns vary from night to night and series to series. Minutes go up and down.
"It's about finding a way to squelch the other team," Jackson says late one Tuesday night after a conference semifinal game against Houston. "We keep trying to do that, and they keep trying to find a way to pop out."
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ESPN - OTL: Phil At Work - E-ticket
 
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