Out of the Rafters at the Q
Out of the Rafters
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If it's all right with you Rchfld, I'm going to use your high school team photo as my new avatar. I know ballers when I see them..
The cavs need to quit babying Irving and have him defend his own position. The chemistry problem is defensively as much as offensively. The cavs don't have the personnel to cross match defensively. Gee ain't the bees knees of defensive ability. Scott's use of gee as a crutch is hurting the team in the long run. If you have deficits, let them be revealed. covering them up is a form of masterbation. The cavs defense feels better than it is with scott's gimmicks. they aren't really helping. It's time to get rid of gee, and see the cavs for what they are.
The cavs will make greater strides pushing their offense than trying to put lip stick on this defensive pig.
I believe cross-positional defending is an acceptable part of a defensive strategy. When a coaching staff stops at that and calls it a scheme, there is a problem.
I am operating under the belief that Scott and the coaching staff is so overwhelmed with teaching fundamentals that they don't have enough time to implement the Princeton offense or a help defense. I tell myself that daily. Daily.
Like most coaches who go to bad teams, scott is keeping his job because the team couldn't get any worse. There has been no improvement to the system being ran. If the cavs fail to make the play offs next year scott will be fired.
Scott is clearly focused more at a development standpoint, than at an X's and O's. And when it comes to developing young talent, I'm not sure there's a better coach out there. He's the perfect coach for where we are now, but when w're ready to be a team of contention. I think we'll probably end up going a different direction.
This thread feels about 18 months premature. Chemistry issues have been around since James Naismith had to drag a ladder on the court to pull the ball out of the basket. Finding an equilibrium is what basketball is all about.
Thabo only tries to score five to eight times a game, and only in transition or when left alone. It should keep Irving out of foul trouble. No problem at all with the call.