Brown is definitely a rookie coach

[Pioneer10]

Well I've been blasting him over the Luke situation but I was really bothered in the Laker game by his decisions against Odom.

Odom just owned Marshall in the first half yet in the second half he kept Marshall on him again. Then he put Lebron on Kobe with Snow on the PG. Lebron did NOT do a bad on Kobe (great shot beats great D) but Odom is the one that kept the Lakers in

 

[Taiter]

Marshall was terrible, perhaps his worst game as a Cav. Why Drew was not out there more in the 4th is beyond me. At least Brown FINALLY started changing things up and gave Sasha and esp. Luke extended mins.

 

[West Remy]

Yeah. Marshall on Odom was so terrible, I was dying for a change. Heck, even though AV is coming off an injury, he has quicker feet and is faster than Marshall. So even if AV was rusty and entered the game and did a poor job, it couldn't have been worse than what we saw out of Marshall tonight.

 

[cavincali]

it wasnt his fault that we shot 14-23 from the FREE throw line. Professional basketball player shoot this bad is a joke.

 

[PIP]

it wasnt his fault that we shot 14-23 from the FREE throw line. Professional basketball player shoot this bad is a joke.

The dumbass took LeBron out every time they took Kobe out..One would think LeBron might be able to do a little more without Kobe handing on him.. :thumbdown

He took Luke out, and left Sasha in the game in the first half when all he did was take a bad shot, turned it over on the baseline, and turned it over at halfcourt.. :thumbdown

He played Damon Jones... :thumbdown

Drug dealers have a better game plan then this guy....We don't have an offense...

WE HAVE ------------------> "THE LeBRON'S"

 

[PIP]

I'm a great free throw shooter... In fact, I can even make those freebies when the other players are not around like the technicals..

I'm just a great shooter period... I have range... A tight midrange game, and I can finish with either hand...

I've got great handles... I need to work on my left hand a little more.. But it's above average..I've got speed, and vision.. Although, I don't like to pass the ball.. Otherwise, I don't have it... If I have the ball, my team wins... Because I am so great... See my logic ?

I will also play the other side of the floor... I will get up in someone's face... I don't fall for the upfake, and I am a shot blocking machine... I play the lanes like a jaguar going around a pinto... My on ball defense is second to none...

I have a great vertical and i'm explosive...

My postup game is cash.... The footwork on the block is bananas.. I actually can't believe how good it is... I will always find the open man outta the double and TRIPLE team...

My clutchness is crazy.... I've missed 3 free throws my whole life, but one was a lane violation. So, you guess it, I made it.... So technically i've only missed 2 freebies... But I won't lie.. So i've missed 3..

I rarely miss shots... If I do, I was fouled, or there was a door/window open, with strong wind gusts...

The only play the coach has ever drawn up for my team was called "GET THE DAMN BALL TO LePIP"...

All in all, I clearly have much to improve on... So I will work on my game in the summer and on my lunch break....

I actually cannot believe how good I am on the court... I get tired of people just asking me about my game, and how I got so good...

It just happened....

 

[bail]

Eric Snow should be the one to guard kobe in the final minutes of the game

 

[ootbttnlagitnbasf]

mike brown has never been a head coach in the nba before this season.

you are right! he is a rookie coach.

did you know that some of the best coaches in nba history began their careers as rookie coaches?

 

[Benedict_Boozer]

The dumbass took LeBron out every time they took Kobe out..One would think LeBron might be able to do a little more without Kobe handing on him.. :thumbdown

He took Luke out, and left Sasha in the game in the first half when all he did was take a bad shot, turned it over on the baseline, and turned it over at halfcourt.. :thumbdown

He played Damon Jones... :thumbdown

Drug dealers have a better game plan then this guy....We don't have an offense...

WE HAVE ------------------> "THE LeBRON'S"

This is exactly right, Brown let Phil Jackson dictate the game. Kobe is not 21 years old and had come off a back to back. Lebron should have been left in the game when the Lakers had their role players out there to stretch the lead. We could have put this game away in the 3Q.

We aren't the Lakers, when LBJ sits this team falls apart. That really irked me.

 

[Mac]

I disagree..Brown called a good game.

Had our team hit free throws, it would have been a cake win. But Lebron and others are idiots and dont know how to do that, so we lose.

Brown did what he had to do to put this team to win on the road. Good job, esp on the out of bounds call on the post up to Lebron with 8 seconds left.

Brown should be no where near any of the reasons we lost.

This one falls directly on Lebrons shoulders and the others who missed free throws.

 

[Glen Infante]

I just didn't like the fact that Luke/Sasha AND Wilks were in the game at the same time.

 

[Pioneer10]

^ I guess Odom nearly going for a triple double pretty much exclusively while bring guarded by Marshall had nothing to do with it.

 

[Mac]

Not if we hit our free throws.

 

[Coyote]

Meh. I'll agree to an extent about Odom v. Marshall (soon to be considered by the Supreme Court), but I thought that despite the loss there was much more positive goin on. For the first time in what, sevn, eight games, we got Z the ball. Something happened to make this team take less 3's, thank God. And Luke kept proving himself, so Brown had him in. Brown is an old school coach with rookies, it seems, but you have to admit that when Luke started playing well, he saw minutes. So our game plan was improved. If we'd hit more free throws, we'd have had a chance, and I'm not sure how exactly that falls on Mike Brown.

So, um, yeah, Mike Brown is a rookie coach. A rookie coach who, you might argue, got outcoached by Phil Jackson, who's won 6 rings. That was what kept the Lakers in the game. What WON it for them was an amazing shot by Kobe, a lack of stops on our part near the end, and Lebron choking in the clutch.

 

[MarkPrice25]

Rookie head coaches are going to make mistakes, but I'll give Brown more time. It hasn't even been half a season yet. Losing Hughes was alot bigger than most people expected. Brown did not lose that game last night.

This is what I expected to happen early on without Hughes. Look at the teams last season that played through major injuries/suspensions and ended up jumping over us on the way to the playoffs.

After the brawl, Indiana dropped a bunch right in a row, but then got hot. The same for Washington when they lost Hughes and Arenas. It's going to take a few games to reset the rotations and redefine roles. It's just too bad that this is happening during our toughest stretch of games (NY and Houston not included, of course).

Last night's game I think is a stepping stone for us. Luke proved that he deserves to start or at least get extended minutes to see whether or not these past few are the norm or a fluke. They finally established Z like I've been begging them to for the past few games.

I'd like to see this for a few games:

Snow, Jackson, LeBron, Drew and Z starting with Jones and Marshall coming off the bench as they were when Hughes was playing. Sprinkle in Newble for 10-15 a game along with Andy until he gets his legs. I think we will be able to tread water until Hughes gets back and I believe that when we look back after Hughes is healthy, we will have had a slightly above .500 record without him, and primed for a big push with our home-heavy March schedule.