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Best winning percentage in first year as head coach in Cavs' history:

David Blatt 50-27 (.649 winning percentage)
Mike Brown 50-32 (.610 winning percentage)
Mike Fratello 47-35 (.573 winning percentage)
Stan Albeck 37-45 (.451 winning percentage)
George Karl 36-46 (.439 winning percentage)
Paul Silas 35-47 (.427 winning percentage)
Randy Wittman 32-50 (.390 winning percentage)
 
CosmoKramer said:
Best winning percentage in first year as head coach in Cavs' history:

David Blatt 50-27 (.649 winning percentage)
Mike Brown 50-32 (.610 winning percentage)
Mike Fratello 47-35 (.573 winning percentage)
Stan Albeck 37-45 (.451 winning percentage)
George Karl 36-46 (.439 winning percentage)
Paul Silas 35-47 (.427 winning percentage)
Randy Wittman 32-50 (.390 winning percentage)
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I'm happy for Blatt.

Though this name being in 2nd isn't too encouraging… :chuckle:
 
Post game interview (long one this time):
http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/video/teams/cavaliers/2015/04/05/150405COACHPostGMmov-3565023

- We shot too many 3 pointers. But if you shoot at such a percentage you give yourself a great chance to win. I would like to see better shot selection.

- We want JR to space the floor for us and we believe in him. If you have a shooter, you have to let him go. A few of them were not great shots, but you have to let a shooter feel confident.

- It was a good basketball game. At parts of the game we were playing great basketball. We could improve our 4th quarter decision making, and that is on me.

- We still have some things left in the bag (tactics wise). We're just trying to win ballgames. We know what we're doing, what our advantages are and what lineups we want to play. We're not trying to reinvent the wheel but grow as a unit.

- We have shown that we have the ability to play fast, as well as the ability to win low scoring games. We can play a number of different ways if we have to.

- LeBron was benched with 5:50 left to the game to give him a breather. Coach felt he expended a lot of energy and wanted to give him time to catch his breath.

- Timo wen't back in to end the game to guard Gasol. He did great on him the whole game and this decision proved to work very well for us.

- In the games left we just want to play good basketball. We gotta win another one to clinch the 2nd seed. And then there will be a lot of questions about how we want to handle the remaining games.

- Regarding the LBJ flagrant - Blatt says he thinks the rule is incorrect. The refs made the right decision, but the rule is incorrect. LeBron takes some dangerous shots while in mid air and those are not flagrants. This is something that needs to be addressed in the post season. Some of the fouls on LeBron were overboard.

- Chicago are very efficient and really make you work hard on D. So overall we did a great job keeping them to relatively low score and contesting.

- This was the best way to prepare to the playoffs.

- Looking at Chicago's defensive metrics, one of the best things they do is defend the 3 point line. So us being able to shoot as much and as well as we did really says something. Although, again, we probably overshot the 3 and made some bad decisions, and that is on Blatt and he will address it.
 
mhi said:
Elhassan has a different angle on the Windhorst "Lebron calls the plays" stuff.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/72874/david-blatt-vs-lebron-james-2

I think it's just part of his personality, along with the incessant clapping and "good job, good effort" stuff.
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Lets see, the dialogue in the video starts off with one Espn reporter asking why fans were shocked about Windy's "revelation" concerning Blatt and Elhassan explaining that fans don't know NBA basketball because they are college basketball fans and are used to seeing coaches shout orders to the players constantly. In other words, ESPN makes up a story and then makes up that people are shocked by the story and finally insults the readers by saying that they are shocked because they don't really understand the basketball they are fans of.

So after this most eloquent beginning he addresses Windy's argument that Blatt echoes Lebron's plays. It turns out the problem was not in Windy's argument but on people focusing on the wrong part of the argument. (Again making baseless assumptions.) He goes on to say that because fans are "ignorant" about the game, they focused on the wrong part of Windy's argument. (seems mildly condescending to me, personally...) Luckily, unlike us fans, ESPN would never take anything a coach or player said or did out of context.

At this point, I can just imagine that if anyone pointed out that Elhassan is calling fans ignorant, another ESPN writer would come out any say that the listeners were again being ignorant as they were focusing on the wrong part of Elhassan's argument, so lets let this first part go to avoid such an unfortunate situation.

Anyway, so he goes on to repeat twice that Blatt echoing Lebron's play-calling is what is interesting! How fascinating, it undoubtedly must be true if he said it twice. Apparently Doc Rivers would never echo Chris Paul playcall, unlike Blatt, haha. (Well, they were smiling while the sentence was said, so I assume it's meant to be said in a mocking way and we should all obviously join in.) So there can be two reasons for this echoing, the first, at face value, is that Blatt is simply reinforcing the play for anyone that might have not noticed Lebron calling it by repeating the same play. Yup, sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Ok, I think I will end this analysis here!

However, upon reflection I decided that it would be unfair to Elhassan if I stopped here. So I continued to listen and it turns out that there is also a 'darker' reason for him echoing the plays: It shows that Blatt is "insecure" because he comes from a non NBA background. I was really shocked to learn that Blatt is a first year coach in the league. Who would have thought... Lets crucify and mock him for it! Hmm... Or I guess we could take things at face value and choose the first option, that Blatt is simply reinforcing plays. Anyway, apparently in College and Europe, the coach is the star and must maintain a semblance of control and by allowing players to call plays, they lose that control... So in other words, he is claiming that basketball coaches in Europe don't allow players to call plays. He's technically also claiming that NBA coaches don't maintain a semblance of control over their teams... But we will let that go for now as he is obviously trying to build up an argument that says that it is uncommon for coaches to allow players to call plays and he just worded his argument badly.

Well, I hate to say this, but Elhassan is wrong. European coaches do let players call plays because it is a professional/adult basketball league... In college it might be different because players are there to study how to play basketball. But, I guess, to Elhassan's credit he did end his argument by saying that he is not trying to say that Blatt does this... Followed by saying that his interpretation is just explaining the "negative undertone of what that tidbit means".

A this point, the person interviewing asks if Elhassan is essentially saying that... Windy's argument... Elhassan replies, yes and adds a few words that are rendered meaningless by his earlier observation that he is essentially giving a negative subjective interpretation of Blatt's actions. Which really reinforces the impression that ESPN analysts are seeing things in a biased negative point of view.

I hope you found my interpretation of Elhassan's interpretation of Windy's interpretation of Blatt's actions interesting. :)

If you don't have time to read this long analysis of Elhassan's argument. All, he is really saying is that "fans are ignorant" in a condescending manner as a way to delegitimize the widespread criticism of Windy's words and some other less important things in light of how the rest is all the subjective opinion of someone who uses a manipulative style of discourse. (Edited to clarify why Elhassan's use of ignorance is problematic...)
 
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Ignorance is not equal to stupidity. It means casual fans don't know what is going on. Not a diss, just saying they are poorly informed.

Windy said, "yep its a non story", but that is not true. He was using it as evidence that Lebron is the de facto coach and Lebron is coaching Blatt. Otherwise he would have said Lebron has always called plays.

Windy has backed off a sensationalized comment he made to make Blatt look bad.
 
Cavatt said:
Ignorance is not equal to stupidity. It means casual fans don't know what is going on. Not a diss, just saying they are poorly informed.

Windy said, "yep its a non story", but that is not true. He was using it as evidence that Lebron is the de facto coach and Lebron is coaching Blatt. Otherwise he would have said Lebron has always called plays.

Windy has backed off a sensationalized comment he made to make Blatt look bad.
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Nothing new here
Windy is a fan a phony a pussy a Stan

Why people still read his garabage
I don't know
 
Tazoz said:
Which really reinforces the impression that ESPN analysts are seeing things in a biased negative point of view.

I hope you found my interpretation of Elhassan's interpretation of Windy's interpretation of Blatt's actions interesting. :)
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Nah man I don't think they're biased; they're just doing their job which is analyzing the NBA endlessly. Their job is to keep digging even when there isn't any treasure to be found.
 
I really don't get why people take Windhorst seriously, he doesn't know squat anymore, he never knew anything that is basketball related really, he was more of a gossip guy than a basketball analyst.
At this point of his career, he is more of a storyteller and writer of made up fictions, not someone we should read or listen to if we want to get content of any value.
 
Cavatt said:
Ignorance is not equal to stupidity. It means casual fans don't know what is going on. Not a diss, just saying they are poorly informed.

Windy said, "yep its a non story", but that is not true. He was using it as evidence that Lebron is the de facto coach and Lebron is coaching Blatt. Otherwise he would have said Lebron has always called plays.

Windy has backed off a sensationalized comment he made to make Blatt look bad.
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Windy made it a story ..just the slight way he snickered when he said it made it seem like a problem..then the media latches on to it to further paint the picture that Lebron is the master and Blatt is nothing more than a parrot puppet(try saying that 10 times)..


 
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