It's hard for me to feel sorry for David Blatt or anyone else involved in professional athletics since they make more money in one year than most of us will make in a lifetime; however, I think he got a raw deal. Took them to the finals last year with an injury depleted team and had the Cavs with the best record in the east this year. I know they lost to the Spurs and the Warriors twice this year but still. I heard they said there was no emotion in the locker room after a win. What did they want him to do? Have him take the whole team out for shrimp cocktail and drinks? And I don't care what anyone says, LBJ played a hand in this termination. Thoughts are welcome.
Does anyone other than Jeff Van Gundy feel sorry for David Blatt?
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NO!! He was a puppet master, doing what he was told by the owner and allowed LeBron to interject his leadership input rather than taking the chemistry of the team and putting them all together. With him having coached overseas more than in the US, that did not help him very much.
Lots of egos you have to stroke in the NBA, years ago it was an owners/coaches league, today it's a who's most popular on TV, twitter, social media and makes the most bank and gets on the most talk shows, nothing about "TEAM" anymore. How many Spurs players do you see on commercials? How much do you see the ownership group of the Spurs getting their face in the media (Mark Cuban you reading this?) or how many times does the coach Rant on TV or in the media? Not many other coaches like this other than the Celtics young coach and Doc Rivers and Steve Kerr. Most of them are from the same old school mold. Tyrone Lue will get eaten up after this season is over with! Trust me on this!
He's a Nebraska, former Danny Nee player. He doesn't get it all, he's smart, he's been under some good head coaches, but he has his own style and he'll need to prove that to his team day in and day out, otherwise they'll chew him up and spit him out like chewed up paper and spitting out of a straw!
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I am not a big cavs fan so I don't watch them a lot but I have never seen tv interview the coach only Labron
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As a Cavs fan, I've been begging for this for weeks. I would've liked to see Mark Jackson get the job, but we will see what Lue does. My biggest issue with Blatt was he just stood on the sidelines like a soft pussy. The team plays soft(Love, Irving, Mozgov) and their coach helped complicate matters.
Their ISO offense under Blatt was a fucking nightmare to watch as well. I know everyone says Love don't play defense...whatever, accept it and move on. But how on earth do you not run your offense through him is mind boggling. He's not a player you roll the ball to and say go fucking get 'em buddy! Look how GS runs their offense through Green(even though people try to say it's through Curry).
Their ISO offense under Blatt was a fucking nightmare to watch as well. I know everyone says Love don't play defense...whatever, accept it and move on. But how on earth do you not run your offense through him is mind boggling. He's not a player you roll the ball to and say go fucking get 'em buddy! Look how GS runs their offense through Green(even though people try to say it's through Curry).
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I also would like the Cavs to make some lineup changes. They have enough scoring with Love, LeBron, Irving in the starting lineup. Put JR on the bench with the 2nd unit and start Shumpert.
I also wouldn't mind seeing them change their front court consistently depending on who they're playing. Love, Thompson, Mozgov give you a helluva lot of different rotations you can play.
I also wouldn't mind seeing them change their front court consistently depending on who they're playing. Love, Thompson, Mozgov give you a helluva lot of different rotations you can play.
As good as he is, the Cavs are no fun to watch. Labron just blasts his way through or shoots his awkward looking clunker of a jump shot. Mark Jackson would be the perfect coach since he thinks Curry is bad for the nba! 99% off all basketball fans would rather watch Curry. So fluid, graceful, skillful. Labron is an athletic freak of nature that out-muscles everybody. I think Labron is bad for the game more than Curry. No doubt. :shrug:
Cavs might as well make James player ,coach and GM. They can say he did not have a vote in the coaching changes. I say that's a load of bullshit. I'm tired of these prima donna players running the show.
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Curry comments were taken out of context. And he didn't say it was bad for the NBA, he said it was bad for basketball cuz kids out there shooting the shit he does. I agree with him, but that doesn't mean he should've said it lol
I would argue that 90% of the shots that Curry takes are poor shot selection(as far as range and within the offense). But he makes them, thus they're not really poor shots. There's a reason why he's the only one in the league making those plays. Otherwise if they were good shots, more people would do it.
