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He's right that we look short. It's an odd thing because when you look at listed heights we don't seem to be, but Love and Varejao just look totally outmatched on defense and (surprisingly) rebounding against teams with long, athletic frontcourts. I think it's about athleticism as much as height.

Cavs need to have a long or athletic player to draw the other teams longest, most athletic player away from Love or Varejao to help them work at their highest efficiency on defense. They also need the same thing on defense.
 
Also, as much as I questioned him at the start of the season, Windhorst has been right about pretty much everything since the season started....gotta give the guy credit
 
Also, as much as I questioned him at the start of the season, Windhorst has been right about pretty much everything since the season started....gotta give the guy credit


His podcast has been fantastic. By far the best source on cavs news.
 
Windhorst has been right about pretty much everything since the season started....gotta give the guy credit

Yeah he has. First guy to call these things -

Dion to bench
Miller to start


Windhorst is a good reporter. I don't know why people rip on him so much.
 
It really shocks me that people are here siding with Blatt over the players.

Face it, if the coach isn't having a positive impact on the culture or players themselves, than his time will be up quicker than it came.

I knew this and seen it coming from the day the season started. Blatt is not a coach fit for this team.
 
Yeah he has. First guy to call these things Dion to bench
Miller to start

All these were pretty obvious. So obvious that I think even Lloyd talked about it. Here is another one, TT should eventually start.

Gotta give Windy credit for nailing the Brewer to Houston though. I guess we wanted him to waive his PO for next year ?

As far as Blatt, of course I mean he's a rookie coach.

I WILL give him credit though for his willingness to make lineup adjustments, even though they come slightly late. Shows you he's at least quicker than Scott Brooks or Mike Brown. Now we just need more minutes with Love at the 5, where we pray for stops and score the hell out of the ball on the other end.
 
Geez, this all sounds familiar with Miami when the Heat were thinking about firing Spo and Riley possibly coming to step in as head coach....
 
Geez, this all sounds familiar with Miami when the Heat were thinking about firing Spo and Riley possibly coming to step in as head coach....

The difference is that Miami had a figure in Pat Riley who demanded LeBron's respect and made it clear that Spolestra was going to be their coach. Does anyone here honestly see Gilbert standing up for Blatt and not caving into LeBron's demands like he did so often in the past?
 
It really shocks me that people are here siding with Blatt over the players.

Face it, if the coach isn't having a positive impact on the culture or players themselves, than his time will be up quicker than it came.

I knew this and seen it coming from the day the season started. Blatt is not a coach fit for this team.

It shocks me that you can conclude this with no evidence besides Windhorst.

What is Blatt doing or not doing that is not having a positive impact on the team? When the team wins, do they not show locker room footage of everyone paling around with their coach and planning their next practices/moves? Do they not seem to like him there? Does he behave badly for our culture or represent the franchise to the media poorly? Like what actually empirical argument are you giving us that isn't windhorst gossip or "cavs lost, blatt must suck."

Is it blatts fault the team has some personnel issues and holes in regards to defense? That makes him a bad fit?

I don't get it. Offer something at least besides "blatt has to go!!! Shocking!!!"
 
It shocks me that you can conclude this with no evidence besides Windhorst.

What is Blatt doing or not doing that is not having a positive impact on the team? When the team wins, do they not show locker room footage of everyone paling around with their coach and planning their next practices/moves? Do they not seem to like him there? Does he behave badly for our culture or represent the franchise to the media poorly? Like what actually empirical argument are you giving us that isn't windhorst gossip or "cavs lost, blatt must suck."

Is it blatts fault the team has some personnel issues and holes in regards to defense? That makes him a bad fit?

I don't get it. Offer something at least besides "blatt has to go!!! Shocking!!!"


Yeah I think the major problem with the team as a whole is not the coach, but rather the team itself wasn't constructed very well.

It was like the plan was to get our big 3 which obviously was successful, but not much thought was put into how the rest of the team fit around them and whether we had enough talent to cover up for Love and Kyrie's defensive deficiencies.

Imo most of the criticism for the team should go towards Griffin and Grant.
 
This roster will not succeed in the playoffs the way it is currently constructed. That's really the crux of the issue.

I liken LeBron's view and "as matter of fact" attitude to someone who has years of experience doing their job and become frustrated very easily when things don't go their way and it often leads to tussles within the organization. Well... the fact of the matter is he's had this attitude pretty much his entire career.

Either the Cavs front office screwed up by hiring Blatt and allowing LeBron to put his fingerprints on what should be Blatt's own coaching staff, or the Cavs should have hired an all LeBron approved coaching staff in the first place.

In any case, the organization has opened up doors that allow rifts between coaching staff/coaching staff and coaching staff/players.

At this point, the last thing we should be discussing is high school social experiments and instead adding talent that can play both sides of the ball at high levels, but more importantly, on the defensive end.
 
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