Coach Blatt speaking to a 340 people crowd at the JCC dinner. Interesting read:
http://www.ohio.com/sports/cavs/cav...65670?cache=18961415304345%25252525252525252f
Some key points:
- Blatt recalled his first season at Maccabi, when his team lost a couple games one month, which Blatt called “a national disaster.” Says he met a man named Bob who called him and said "David, I want to tell you a story. When I was going through some problems my first year my dad called me and said, ‘Son, the moment you start listening to the guy in the third row, very quickly you’re going to find yourself sitting right next to him."
- Blatt was asked what happened when LeBron James shoved him back toward the bench.
“LeBron saved me from a technical,” Blatt said, “He’s saved me a few other times, too,”
- "As much as I knew about the game and as many different places I’ve been, this is a different world. The NBA game is different."
- Blatt said he guides the Cavs with the same four principles he used in his 33 years abroad. “Know the material. You have to know what you’re talking about,” Blatt said. “Have a philosophy you believe in. Be a leader and get people to follow you. And you have to be a human being. You have to know and respect and work with people to help people be the best they can be.”
- “I never had a team that was good that didn’t think team first,” he said. “I never had a thing that was bad that didn’t think team first. That’s what we’re to institute in this Cavs team.”