David Blatt is a former NBA coach

[Adam]

Yeah blatt called the lob all right

one thing ive noticed is blatt loves a good lob play alot of his sets have a lob opportunity to force the defense to collapse or get stuffed.
I also wonder if having sets that creates plays that players love to make like alley oops is a good way of encouraging buy in. If you run the sets we get show time scores

 

[Jack Brickman]

Really? I thought they were Mario and Luigi from those Nintendo games.

Jeff clearly isn't tall enough to be Luigi.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I saw this on a reddit post - View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnPZ04j0q70


notice how on 0:11 Blatt shouts "GO JAY!"

And notice how quickly J.R. responds to his coach. They listen to the guy, which means they trust him.

Clicking on all cylinders right now.

 

[2Fluffy4U]

And Check 0:30 in the JR clip... Love's reaction is so funny...

 

[WorldBoFree]

Blatt is quietly becoming one of the best coaches in the league at drawing up half court inbound plays.

 

[JawJuttinAsasin]

But why is James Jones playing so much in this game?

 

[tocov]

Because he played well and the lineup with him extended the lead?

 

[roozy]

His coaching has been superb, I thought Stan had him but that defensive lineup was beautiful.

 

[Omar The Horse]

His best game yet?

 

[JawJuttinAsasin]

LOL at ppl "disagreeing" with a genuine question.

 

[Cashius X]

I wish people would stop bitching about ratings...

 

[wuck]

I thought Blatt was going to get his first technical tonight. He went ballistic on one of the calls in the late 3rd quarter. Jumped a foot in the air as he ran 10-feet out on the court. He may never get one at this rate, because that really was a moment where he looked like he had lost it. Then he talked to the official for more than a minute straight.

It was really interesting to watch Blatt match up with Detroit in the 2nd half. I wasn't convinced going small (or going weird) was going to work, but Love's shot and Blatt's adamance at sticking with it really forced the Pistons out of their strengths.

Tonight was more like the Blatt I thought we would see - playing the hot hand, letting players having off-nights sit down, spreading the minutes, calling on a new player who hasn't practiced out of 1st-half foul trouble desperation. He has been playing the NBA rotation game for weeks now. Tonight was a whole different approach. Sticking with what was working and just letting those different lineups play for extended minutes in the 2nd half was really intriguing to watch. I'm sure he'd prefer the NBA-rotation to dominate other teams, but he wasn't shy tonight about shifting gears.

 

[*L-Train*]

But why is James Jones playing so much in this game?

because Marion is out with an injury and Mike Miller has become a cheerleader at this point.

 

[Benedict_Boozer]

Blatt getting comfortable with his own skin now - really like some of the action in the sets, seems like we have been getting a ton of layups and easy baskets lately from our bigs either rolling or fading off picks.

Also the double screen set he is running where Love and Mozgov both set a screen at the same time for Kyrie/LBJ and Love pops out while Mozgov rolls is basically unguardable. You either give up an open J to Love (who is hitting now) or you have T-Mo dunking all over your head. That can be a staple set come playoff time.

Really glad we showed patience with this guy.

 

[BimboColesHair]

Dude rolled with an 8 man lineup during the meaningful minutes for essentially all of this 17 wins in 19 games stretch...then tonight decided to throw JJ out there in the lineup that extended and preserved the lead for the majority of the 4th. Ballsy move by Blatt that paid off pretty well.