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Really found the 43 minutes that LeBron played to be rather strange, especially considering Blatt's emphasis on limiting his playing time and monitoring his progress during the week. Thoughts on this?

Could've been either playing him until he was out of his funk, testing his chemistry with each contingent on the floor or giving him the chance given the occasion.

Either way, 43 is a shit load of minutes for a game that doesn't head into overtime.
It was for chemistry and not only that LeBron didn't really over exert him self. Basically this was kind of to me a final pre season game that counted.
 
Liked his response that LeBron was too static on the perimeter without the ball
 
Really found the 43 minutes that LeBron played to be rather strange, especially considering Blatt's emphasis on limiting his playing time and monitoring his progress during the week. Thoughts on this?

Could've been either playing him until he was out of his funk, testing his chemistry with each contingent on the floor or giving him the chance given the occasion.

One of Blatt's strengths has been to roll with different lineups and use an assortment of players but they didn't reward him much tonight after the first quarter. I recognize why he wants to give the first unit a lot of time together, but am disappointed that he hasn't been able to find effective minutes for Marion or Miller. Not just tonight. It felt like Blatt was searching but not finding much of the night.

The Cavs are confused on offense, and they started breaking off plays, not moving, settling for threes, and getting sloppy the longer the game went. I expect that kind of stuff to get better but it will be rocky for awhile.

It's hard to tell if the defense is broken or they were just slow and lazy for long portions of the game. They gave up a lot of easy shots, then gave up a lot of boards, then gave up a lot of tough shots when it counted. Bad combo. Some of it is on Blatt but not all of it.
 
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I thought when he experimented with the big line up in the 2nd quarter with lebron at the 2 (which we had not seen in preseason) it kind of deflated the team a little bit. But without practice time i suppose he has a certain amount of experimentation in the first month of the season.

defensively there were loads of times when people helped aggressively and then were found confused to where to recover to leaving jason smith open. I think the defensive system will take time but with our personnel we will need an aggressive system to be effective
 
I thought when he experimented with the big line up in the 2nd quarter with lebron at the 2 (which we had not seen in preseason) it kind of deflated the team a little bit. But without practice time i suppose he has a certain amount of experimentation in the first month of the season.

defensively there were loads of times when people helped aggressively and then were found confused to where to recover to leaving jason smith open. I think the defensive system will take time but with our personnel we will need an aggressive system to be effective

I saw the last four minutes and you are right. They did the right thing but got confused as I saw them expecting something to come that never came. The biggest the J.R Smith runner where he was defended decent but put on a move and the help was late. To me that says J.R out smarted the D by them assuming he was going to chuck it while the Cavs expected a rebound while (Dion or Kyrie?) whoever stuck with him did well in effort to keep up. Now that is where they should know where or when they can go but be ready for the fake out. It will come in "time" the term I know we all hate , it will I promise it will.
 
Anyone else notice the lack of a time out called when the Knicks went up by 9 and almost 11 in the third? Reggie Miller made the point that should have been an instant time out. Maybe he is getting used to being able to call more timeouts than in other leagues?
 
Tonight we saw a rookie head coach in his first NBA game. It seems like the moment got to him more so than anything. Time outs should have been called when the Knicks went on their runs. Rotations were off. He will get used to it but his in game adjustments will get better with time.
 
Tonight we saw a rookie head coach in his first NBA game. It seems like the moment got to him more so than anything. Time outs should have been called when the Knicks went on their runs. Rotations were off. He will get used to it but his in game adjustments will get better with time.

I say he did alright... Guys got moxie. or In modern day terms. He sucks Hot BUBBLE!
 
Anyone else notice the lack of a time out called when the Knicks went up by 9 and almost 11 in the third? Reggie Miller made the point that should have been an instant time out. Maybe he is getting used to being able to call more timeouts than in other leagues?

I think Blatt had burned though too many time outs already and was trying to save some for the end of the game.

There were definitely some changes in philosophy on display. Mike Brown would try to get players comfortable with the rotation by making a structured rotation and methodically tweaking it over time. David Blatt on the other hand rolls out a novelty "big" lineup with Lebron at SG mid way through opening night.
 
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rookie coach or not, we only lost by 5 points with a brand new team and we probably would have won the game if we had a couple more minutes of game time

kyrie and lebron combined for 12 TOs, with nobody expecting lebron to go 5-15 from the field...even Phil Jackson would struggle with that

dion said it best, "we have 81 more games, man"
 
It seemed like Blatt was communicating with Kyrie and Tristan on the inbound before that end of half alley oop, so clearly he draw shit up and put together an offense, we just need to keep adjusting and have a non-turnover-machine version of LeBron out there.
 
David Blatt looked overwhelmed and clueless. Not putting his players in a position to win. Concerning.
 
Really found the 43 minutes that LeBron played to be rather strange, especially considering Blatt's emphasis on limiting his playing time and monitoring his progress during the week. Thoughts on this?

Could've been either playing him until he was out of his funk, testing his chemistry with each contingent on the floor or giving him the chance given the occasion.

Either way, 43 is a shit load of minutes for a game that doesn't head into overtime.
I would have played LeBron 43 minutes, too. We were in the game until the end. At no point in the game was the outcome ever in stone. A huge stage with the world watching, I'm sure he wanted to win his first game as a coach and not let all those Cleveland fans down. In fact, I would have been pissed if we were in the game with a chance to win and LeBron only played 30-35 minutes.
 
I was at the game, and I must say there were increments, just like in any game James plays in where he effortlessly waltzed to the basket and got buckets when he chose to do so.

Carmelo was flopping, the Knicks were hitting insane shots, every single time the ball was going through the rim for them.

You can see that the Cavaliers have no chemistry, they're trying to piecemeal together a complete game by playing "let's take turns" and when you do that, you can't develop synergy, 1+1+1 still = 3.
 
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