Clearly nothing. Going to have to disagree with you here and I would appreciate not being swept up in some ongoing media feud. All of this has come from my own eyes except for the overriding plays at the end of the game, which admittedly came from Lebron's own mouth during a recent interview.
Well, we're going to have to disagree on how we interpret/parse & look into guys minds. What leBron's intents are get swallowed up in spin, so let's just leave it at your speculation on his attitude is no better than mine, imo.
I saw what Blatt ran in the summer league and beginning of the year. It was awesome. We were doing elaborate weaves, multiple layers of off ball screening, decoy plays, even some elevators - all stuff that Mike Miller said was genius stuff. Where is that now?
This is fact. However the team's ability to make the reads and use it was inconsistent in the beginning of the season. It wasn't like we looked like the Hawks or the Warriors running that stuff. Cavs had their moments, when they moved the ball, but that seemed to have little to do with what they ran and more to do with the personnel and their decisions. Which is of course Blatt's responsibiility. Bad Coach. Bad Coach (newspaper to snout)
It looked to me that Lebron let us run that for a while with Kyrie as the primary ball handler and then decided that he would take over with the simple PnR and create offense. Kyrie then followed his lead.
This is some unmoored speculation. What made you think Kyrie followed his lead? Do you have some specific examples? Where do you get "LeBron let us run that" - just the idea that we don't run it has to be LeBron not the coaching staff. Can you give me some support for thisf? Some reasons someone outside of your skull might also believe this? What are your thoughts aon Kyrie's ability to create off the bounce, becasue to my eyes, once he starts going downhill he's not going to pass it but try to finish. So perhaps the move off the ball had something to do with his skills. But like, that's just my opinion, man.
Sure did see that. Though I am having trouble seeing how running a couple plays is a riposte to me saying that Lebron threw out the offense that I described above.
You said the offense has been scrapped, not reduced. In my limited understanding of English, "scrapped" means thrown away, tossed and/or burned on a pyre. Not "much less frequent".
Oh come on. You are baskebtall writer. Relying on players' strengths in iso does not mean that you cannot run an offense. In fact, what I really liked about our offense early in the season was that we would have constant movement and screening creating mismatches late in the shot clock that would lead to Lebron and Kyrie on a bigger defender enabling them to iso without any help under the basket. My favorite play that we ran was the weave into the PnR at the top of the key, giving Kyrie/Lebron a wide open iso to the basket.
I'll accept this though i Think there is still casuse to have ball in the hands of your best playmakers the whole time.
Now a point to you -- is there anything to be said for the team's offensive performance since they downgraded the offense and started doing more drive & dish iso ball? Is success a metric here or satisfaction watching the ball move, because while it obviously stops a lot at times, it's hard to argue the offense wasn't effective and immediately assume the decision was LeBron's and not the coach. I mean you can make that leap, but as you said, it'd be nice if you proivded something specific to back that up outside of some beat's hot steaming take.
Oh by the way, would it surprise you that I said this already in a previous post? But go ahead and keep talking down to me.
Didn't see it but I didn't have the patience to read everyone of your posts like it was Proust. But hey, whatever, you asked what changes he made in playoffs, then just leave that on the table. What-EV.
Once again, someone reads only what they want to read. It should be obvious through all of my posts that I would rather see Blatt's offense than Lebron's and that I am actually criticizing Lebron.
Bad misinterpretation. That's a general comment that doesn't have to apply to you. It's something that seems to be true whether or not you profess membership -- by your line of argument you court their type.
oh and one thing - if you profess to know about Xs & Os how is LeBron "overriding" a play different from Ewing wanting the ball? Or Pippen wanting the ball? Or any of a million players whose examples came up in the subsequent days.
If you don't want to be swept up in the opinions of shitty writers you can't follow thier logic.
