David Blatt is a former NBA coach

priceFTW · Mar 12, 2015

Damien O'Connel · Mar 12, 2015

I think Lebron's game, in the way we know it, will decline. He won't average 27/7/7 for much longer.

But, does anyone think Lebron can't average 10 assists per game? Especially playing with Love/Kyrie. We've always said he is a more athletic version of Magic Johnson.

If he can totally overhaul his game and play as a true point forward, I think he can play into his late 30's as a 18/11 type of player.

One thing to also note: While his leaping ability isn't what it once was, I don't see a decline in his straight-line speed. He's still the fastest player in the NBA.

If he can continue to push the rock like a freight train and see over the defense at 6'9, he will be effective. Especially after 5 years of playing in Blatt's offense and really having it down. He'll just pick teams apart.

I've always seen that as how Lebron's game will age, just firing bullet passes all over the court. It will be beautiful to watch.

EDIT: Shit, I keep thinking this is the Lebron thread

oracio · Mar 12, 2015

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Cassity14 · Mar 13, 2015

James Jones is the 'stretch 4' that piss poor teams like the Knicks would use down the stretch of a game against the Spurs BECAUSE they don't have the luxury of having a guy like Kevin Love on their roster.

Someone explain this move to me. Blatt looks really bad right now.

Simon · Mar 13, 2015

Blatt's rotations made no sense tonight. Especially in the fourth.

Dshuks · Mar 13, 2015

Hey guys we should totally fire Blatt and ridicule him on the internet because he had abad coaching performance during a regular season game.

kookoo · Mar 13, 2015

Blatt. Look within. And see that James Jones shouldn't play this many minutes and Mozgov needs to be guarding their bigs.

leow · Mar 13, 2015

Dshuks said:
Hey guys we should totally fire Blatt and ridicule him on the internet because he had abad coaching performance during a regular season game.

pinoycavsfan · Mar 13, 2015

need to incorporate love more on offense and let him and mozgov play in the 4th.. playing in the 4th builds confidence in players and in teamwork.. we might lose some games but building the players' confidence late in games will be beneficial in the playoffs..

Ophir · Mar 13, 2015

I just can't understand all this bitching and whining about coach Blatt's decisions, it might be more sufferable after a loss, but after getting a W at fucking san antonio, against the fucking spurs who were on a roll...
grow up people!!!

Kizzle · Mar 13, 2015

Blatt got bailed out today

Sean King 87 · Mar 13, 2015

While your bench is the worst in the league at making points, against the choached team in the league with unbelievble depth, you have no way to win with a beautiful game. Yes, Blatt didn't played Mozgov but EVERY one in the game thread said by himself he is worthless today. Yes, Blatt didn't played Love in the crunch time, but EVERY one in this game thread said he is worthless in the way he played today. So Blatt had just one option, to go with KY and Bron and Shump and TT untill we'll win or die. We won fellas. We won, and I'm not we could winning today in other way.

congratulations coach for your first win against Pop. You have a lot to learn from the best coach maybe of all time, but I believe you'll learn what you have to learn. Your winning mentally and the sense for winning is something nobody can learn.

Helium filament · Mar 13, 2015

pinoycavsfan said:
need to incorporate love more on offense and let him and mozgov play in the 4th.. playing in the 4th builds confidence in players and in teamwork.. we might lose some games but building the players' confidence late in games will be beneficial in the playoffs..

To me, it isn't even about building their confidence. Our starting lineup is our best lineup, why wouldn't we finish out the game with it? I don't think it would result in more losses.

tocov · Mar 13, 2015

Blatt showed some bad coaching in the 4th.
The lineups were bizzare, the switching on D was terrible and the reactions were slow.

But there were good things too. Some great offensive plays that left Ky either open for a 3 or the lane clear for him. Most of the time our offense looked pretty good, against a very well coached and experienced SAS team.

Blatt and the coaching staff should study the tape of this game and see the mistakes in the 4th.
Knowing Blatt's methodology and how passionate he is about the game, I know he will. And I know in the long run these mistakes in the regular season will be beneficial for better utilizing our roster at later times.

Great win, one of the best basketball games I've ever watched. Up there with some Jordan games.

Ob1 · Mar 13, 2015

Blatt's 4th quarter coaching left a lot to be desired, but how amazing was that KI inbounds play to send it into overtime? He was so open on the first look that he didn't even know what to do, and had enough time to take another dribble and still put up the open look!

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