Cleveland Cavs (2016 NBA Champions)

[Fungo Squiggly]

Ohio pro sports. Cath the fever and hope it kills you quickly.

 

[jlb1705]

 

[Bucklion]

Watch Lue go 19-20

 

[BayBuck]

Was Sashi Brown consulted?

 

[NFBuck]

Watch Lue go 19-20

Then they shitcan him and LeBron gets his buddy Calipari the job. Thus, making it for all intents and purposes IMPOSSIBLE for me to continue to root for the Cavs.

 

[Robin159]

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

Honest question here. Wasn't Blatt supposed to be kind of an offensive guru?

Not that it would have mattered or that anyone would have listened to him

 

[Bucklion]

Honest question here. Wasn't Blatt supposed to be kind of an offensive guru?

Not that it would have mattered or that anyone would have listened to him

Yes...in fact the word "genius" was thrown around.

 

[ImFrigginFly]

Lol

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

Yes...in fact the word "genius" was thrown around.

Would like to see him go to a team that might listen to him to see if he could live up to the billing

 

[JCOSU86]

How do you fire a coach who has a record of 30-11 and is coming off a conference championship?

 

[OHSportsFan]

Yes...in fact the word "genius" was thrown around.

Went to Princeton.

Was a beast on the international game.

He and his system have been vouched for by Gregg Popovich- one of the greatest basketball minds in the history of the game and a guy that is pretty short on praise. He is only 56 years old and by all comparisons was very close to following the same path as Pop- whose first 3 full seasons (beginning w/ Duncan) went 146-68, .682 after spending time in the International game. Blatt is 83-30, .675.

I got nothin'

 

[ImFrigginFly]

Probably will be a great coach for another team. Wasn't going to coach this Cavs team to a 'ship, though. It'd take a Popovich/Jackson/Riley coach to get Lebron to buy into a system. Lebron is a very complicated type of "selfish", in that he actually passes it quite a bit, but he and his teams are going to play HIS way.

 

[tsteele316]

word is that the lockerroom basically had it with him. brendan haywood was interviewed and basically said that players lost all respect for blatt because he'd never call out lebron for lebron screwing up, and lue would have to step in and do it. and when they basically scrapped blatt's offense in the middle of last year, it was basically lue running the show.

so, it seems the skids for this were greased a while ago. the players tuning out blatt and shitting on themselves against the spurs and warriors basically confirmed what most people were thinking in that the cavs would get outcoached and outplayed against the elite teams.

blatt may well go on to be a great coach, but he can't coach this kind of team. he needs to be coaching minnesota or the bucks.

 

[Buckeye737]

blatt may well go on to be a great coach, but he can't coach this kind of team. he needs to be coaching minnesota or the bucks.

Yeah, and he wasn't actually hired to coach this kind of team. He probably wouldn't have been hired had the Cavs management known that Lebron was coming back. I hope it works out in the end for both sides.