David Blatt is a former NBA coach

[madmadworld]

David over playing the big 3. still not sold on him.
If you take the blowout games away the big 3's minutes are higher than what we see in most stats.
i know our bench is not the strongest, yet neither was the heats the past 4 years.
This is a system proven & tried and will not be kind to ones who don't accept it.

Bottom line show me a team that won a ring playing only 8 players in the regular season in the past 20 years ?

 

[teamballer]

David over playing the big 3. still not sold on him.
If you take the blowout games away the big 3's minutes are higher than what we see in most stats.
i know our bench is not the strongest, yet neither was the heats the past 4 years.
This is a system proven & tried and will not be kind to ones who don't accept it.

Bottom line show me a team that won a ring playing only 8 players in the regular season in the past 20 years ?

Have you watched this team before the trade when LeBron was down? Did you see the fourth quarter in the last game against the Clippers? I'm sure Blatt would like to be able to give the big-3 some more rest, but the fact is that the players beyond the 8th player on this team are barely able to not completely destroy a 30-pt lead in one quarte against the Clippers' third stringers, let alone win games or just hold the fort. Hopefully Griffin gets another player or two before the deadline and maybe the big-3 will be able to play a bit less minutes.

 

[Benedict_Boozer]

If I'm Blatt - I might try to keep Matrix in the rotation - could help get LBJ's minutes down just a tad and eat up some PF minutes a bit (and we might need him come playoff time). In short minutes he has been pretty decent lately.

 

[priceFTW]

Really, really like what Blatt is putting together. That offense tonight in the first quarter and the first 4 minutes of the 2nd was astonishingly good. 17 assists on 21 made baskets, 52 points in 16 minutes playing at a very slow pace is scary good. 38 points in a slow paced quarter when only taking 1 FT is super rare. James and Irving had subpar offensive games and STILL the offense rolled. Love looks like he's going to be better positioned on offense to make us that much more difficult to deal with. His first quarter today was as good of a quarter as he's played overall (offense and defense).

We have been ultra dominant in these past 13 games since we came back home after the West coast trip.

We have led by at least 13 in EVERY game in the last 13.
We have led by at least 20 in 8 of the 13 games.
We have led by at least 25 in 6 of the 13 games.

Our AVERAGE biggest lead over these 13 games is 23.

BIGGEST LEADS

Chicago--25
Utah--28
Charlotte--49
OKC--13
Detroit--15
Portland--13
Sacramento--21
Minnesota--17
Philly--20
Clippers--32
Indiana--13
Lakers--26
Miami--26

 

[teamballer]

BIGGEST LEADS

Chicago--25
Utah--28
Charlotte--43
OKC--13
Detroit--15
Portland--13
Sacramento--21
Minnesota--17
Philly--20
Clippers--32
Indiana--13
Lakers--26
Miami--26

I don't know about the other games but the biggest lead against Charlotte was definitely 49, not 43.

 

[tocov]

http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/?tmd=1

Post game press conference.

- We were very solid on both ends.
- T-Mo was an easy fit to our tim. He's playing with passion and energy, and I'm not surprised. Except his lob to LeBron - that is one thing he did not expect.
- Our half court offense was very very good.
- We lost our rhythm a couple of times, but you gotta remember - the other guys are playing too. Gives Miami credit for making a couple of runs.
- To deal with a shot blocker like Hassan, you gotta go at him. And you're gonna get stuffed a couple times, but if you keep attacking him he is either gonna foul or the player he's guarding will be free. And Timo got several of those. Whiteside in foul trouble was big for us.
- Thoughts on TT- always ready, always energetic and always ready to do whatever for the team.
- Kevin was the best player on the court until his injury.
- CHI is a very very hard game against a well rested team that is on a good stretch.

 

[All4One1ForAll]

David over playing the big 3. still not sold on him.
If you take the blowout games away the big 3's minutes are higher than what we see in most stats.
i know our bench is not the strongest, yet neither was the heats the past 4 years.
This is a system proven & tried and will not be kind to ones who don't accept it.

Bottom line show me a team that won a ring playing only 8 players in the regular season in the past 20 years ?

You like disagrees, don't you, rook?

 

[madmadworld]

First i was a Laker fan before the Cav's were a twinkle in Nick Mileti eye. born in C-town Cav's fan from day one. seen every game this year too.

Been waiting ALL 50 years for a Championship season, this is my/our best chance over the next 4 years. even if you are 25 years old this might be it fellows.

Would you have hired a guy with no NBA experience, player or coaching to win a Championship ? face it he was hired to win maybe 10 more games than last year and grab a 7th or 8th seed. and that's it.

Ask yourself how many games has he out coached his fellow coach and won a close game ?
playoff games are close most of the time. and he will be exposed for what he is in the playoffs, a guy with zero NBA experience. i hope I'm wrong but i don't think so.

Myself i'm like LBJ regular season games are not important,
what's important is playing well and being fresh for the playoffs is. the way he is playing our best players they will not be fresh that's for sure.

How great is he minus LBJ ? that speaks for itself. good coaches win without their best player. with his record without LBJ we would have won less games (half) this year than the 33 we got last year. heck every other NBA coach doesn't have LBJ and they all win more games than this guy percentage wise. David is the weakest link on this team.

Most here are in love with this guy i see....how sweet.

June will come let's see how that Love is then.

 

[Sebastian]

First i was a Laker fan before the Cav's were a twinkle in Nick Mileti eye. born in C-town Cav's fan from day one. seen every game this year too.

Been waiting ALL 50 years for a Championship season, this is my/our best chance over the next 4 years. even if you are 25 years old this might be it fellows.

Would you have hired a guy with no NBA experience, player or coaching to win a Championship ? face it he was hired to win maybe 10 more games than last year and grab a 7th or 8th seed. and that's it.

Ask yourself how many games has he out coached his fellow coach and won a close game ?
playoff games are close most of the time. and he will be exposed for what he is in the playoffs, a guy with zero NBA experience. i hope I'm wrong but i don't think so.

Myself i'm like LBJ regular season games are not important,
what's important is playing well and being fresh for the playoffs is. the way he is playing our best players they will not be fresh that's for sure.

How great is he minus LBJ ? that speaks for itself. good coaches win without their best player. with his record without LBJ we would have won less games (half) this year than the 33 we got last year. heck every other NBA coach doesn't have LBJ and they all win more games than this guy percentage wise. David is the weakest link on this team.

Most here are in love with this guy i see....how sweet.

June will come let's see how that Love is then.

 

[TLV]

Ask yourself how many games has he out coached his fellow coach and won a close game ?
playoff games are close most of the time. and he will be exposed for what he is in the playoffs, a guy with zero NBA experience. i hope I'm wrong but i don't think so.

You know what, I don't think you hope you're wrong at all. In fact Im dead certain you hope you're right. After all for what other reason do you join a message board just to bitch on the coach?

What are you trying to achieve? What do you want to happen? It's just so pathetic.. it's so sad. Who cares whether or not he was your guy, can't you just accept that he IS the coach now for better and worse and cheer on your team? Isn't being part of a team trying to have at least a bit of faith? Anyway for someone that's watched every game, you talked a lot of crap:

Ask yourself how many games has he out coached his fellow coach and won a close game ?

Well according to everyone that follow European basketball, he's done it a crap load of times with worse teams than his opponents, and in a system where you get one chance, not best of 7. In fact most coaches in Europe seem to respect/fear him and talk of him as a guy that did absolutely just that, out coached them.

Myself i'm like LBJ

Just included that because it's funny. I wonder if LBJ considers himself "just like madmadworld".

what's important is playing well and being fresh for the playoffs is. the way he is playing our best players they will not be fresh that's for sure.

Yet I'm sure you'd be the first to bitch if games were being lost because he was resting his best players.

How great is he minus LBJ ? that speaks for itself. good coaches win without their best player.

Did you watch the game last night. Because Miami were just FANTASTIC without LBJ... Spolestra and Blatt must be the JOINT worst coaches of all time. Ever.

heck every other NBA coach doesn't have LBJ and they all win more games than this guy percentage wise.

That is a very deep technical analysis of basketball, congratulations. The sole determining factor of a basketball team is if they have LeBron James. Quite.

June will come let's see how that Love is then.

Your incorrect capitalisation of "Love" makes it seem like you randomly referenced the player out of context. Usually it would seem like a typo, but as you've talked a lot of nonsense about everything else, that could cause confusion.

Most here are in love with this guy i see....how sweet.

WRONG - Most here are in love with THEIR TEAM, and Blatt IS the coach and they're too preoccupied hoping for success rather than urging their coach to not succeed.

 

[plummet]

First i was a Laker fan before the Cav's were a twinkle in Nick Mileti eye. born in C-town Cav's fan from day one. seen every game this year too.

Been waiting ALL 50 years for a Championship season, this is my/our best chance over the next 4 years. even if you are 25 years old this might be it fellows.

Would you have hired a guy with no NBA experience, player or coaching to win a Championship ? face it he was hired to win maybe 10 more games than last year and grab a 7th or 8th seed. and that's it.

Ask yourself how many games has he out coached his fellow coach and won a close game ?
playoff games are close most of the time. and he will be exposed for what he is in the playoffs, a guy with zero NBA experience. i hope I'm wrong but i don't think so.

Myself i'm like LBJ regular season games are not important,
what's important is playing well and being fresh for the playoffs is. the way he is playing our best players they will not be fresh that's for sure.

How great is he minus LBJ ? that speaks for itself. good coaches win without their best player. with his record without LBJ we would have won less games (half) this year than the 33 we got last year. heck every other NBA coach doesn't have LBJ and they all win more games than this guy percentage wise. David is the weakest link on this team.

Most here are in love with this guy i see....how sweet.

June will come let's see how that Love is then.

Seriously though,
How do you expect a team to gel on their 1st year?
You do understand that the players need to get to know each other on the court so they can actually play well together when crunch time comes?

Cavs are not the Spurs.
These players haven't played together 93,129 seasons together like the Spurs did, and can now rest their stars until playoff starts.

This isn't NBA 2k15, that you can play any lineup you want and still win.

Let the team gel.

 

[ssopata]

First i was a Laker fan before the Cav's were a twinkle in Nick Mileti eye. born in C-town Cav's fan from day one. seen every game this year too.

Been waiting ALL 50 years for a Championship season, this is my/our best chance over the next 4 years. even if you are 25 years old this might be it fellows.

Would you have hired a guy with no NBA experience, player or coaching to win a Championship ? face it he was hired to win maybe 10 more games than last year and grab a 7th or 8th seed. and that's it.

Ask yourself how many games has he out coached his fellow coach and won a close game ?
playoff games are close most of the time. and he will be exposed for what he is in the playoffs, a guy with zero NBA experience. i hope I'm wrong but i don't think so.

Myself i'm like LBJ regular season games are not important,
what's important is playing well and being fresh for the playoffs is. the way he is playing our best players they will not be fresh that's for sure.

How great is he minus LBJ ? that speaks for itself. good coaches win without their best player. with his record without LBJ we would have won less games (half) this year than the 33 we got last year. heck every other NBA coach doesn't have LBJ and they all win more games than this guy percentage wise. David is the weakest link on this team.

Most here are in love with this guy i see....how sweet.

June will come let's see how that Love is then.

 

[castor777]

First i was a Laker fan before the Cav's were a twinkle in Nick Mileti eye. born in C-town Cav's fan from day one. seen every game this year too.

Been waiting ALL 50 years for a Championship season, this is my/our best chance over the next 4 years. even if you are 25 years old this might be it fellows.

Would you have hired a guy with no NBA experience, player or coaching to win a Championship ? face it he was hired to win maybe 10 more games than last year and grab a 7th or 8th seed. and that's it.

Ask yourself how many games has he out coached his fellow coach and won a close game ?
playoff games are close most of the time. and he will be exposed for what he is in the playoffs, a guy with zero NBA experience. i hope I'm wrong but i don't think so.

Myself i'm like LBJ regular season games are not important,
what's important is playing well and being fresh for the playoffs is. the way he is playing our best players they will not be fresh that's for sure.

How great is he minus LBJ ? that speaks for itself. good coaches win without their best player. with his record without LBJ we would have won less games (half) this year than the 33 we got last year. heck every other NBA coach doesn't have LBJ and they all win more games than this guy percentage wise. David is the weakest link on this team.

Most here are in love with this guy i see....how sweet.

June will come let's see how that Love is then.

So first off, you seem to think this is our only chance over the next 4 years? Why you think that, I have no idea. We'll become a more unified team with each passing year. See the entire history of the NBA as a reference here.

Then, you're asking us to go back over a month when our team wasn't very good or unified to judge how Blatt handled those close games, not all the blowouts or the wins against good teams. Because, I guess, our rough start and games back in December dictate how we'll play in May, possibly June.

Of course I can understand being concerned about our players being fresh come playoff time. But look, we had a rough start and our players need as much time now as they can to get used to playing with one another. That might mean extra minutes for now, but if it makes them more comfortable by the first round of the playoffs, so be it. I think the players would like to play for homecourt advantage, so I doubt many of them are protesting minutes right now unlike you.

But the whole "how great is he minus LBJ" is completely irrelevant. We have LBJ, period. He's an MVP in the league. He's on our team. I could care less what success Blatt would have without LeBron, or LeBron would have without Blatt. I only care how they function together, because they work for the team I've cheered for all my life. You sound just like the countless people demanding the Heat fire Spo early on in their first season together. Everyone has egos, tempers flare, but in the end their goals are the same and they just want to win.

I don't know if we win a championship this year. I'm going to hope we do. But right now, a Cleveland team seems to have a coach we like and a solid core we might have for another 4-5 years. I really like our chances, and I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this while we got it. If you can't, good riddance.

 

[jyan_osu]

People seem to forget, Popovich started out with 17 wins because they lost David Robinson. So one asked how Blatt would do without Lebron. Well there's a good indicator..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Popovich

 

[bleedwineandgold03]

People seem to forget, Popovich started out with 17 wins because they lost David Robinson. So one asked how Blatt would do without Lebron. Well there's a good indicator..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Popovich

DING DING DING!!!!!!!!!!!!!......Also the following season he was on the hot seat cause they started 6-8.Even coach K was on the hot seat at some point in duke.