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[The Red Viper]

Love Coach Blatt, but the fuck does he and our coaching staff smoke during inbound plays? Why was Mo inbounding?

 

[The Red Viper]

I don't know where else to post this. So posting it here. We have to put a different team when we are closing the game. In TT and Delly, we effectively have two players who hardly offer anything in offense. That puts shitload of pressure on LeBron, Love and Mo/Kyrie. Now, you would still expect those three to score but problem is like Bulls did today, you can double up on a LeBron and allow someone like TT/Delly to be slightly free because they won't punish you. Can't have two players who can not contribute in the closing moments. Having Andy or JR instead one of them would be much better, IMO.

 

[BimboColesHair]

Love Coach Blatt, but the fuck does he and our coaching staff smoke during inbound plays? Why was Mo inbounding?

In that situation you want a proven passer bringing in the ball (with no timeouts left)...only other guy outside of the PGs I would trust and want passing that ball in is LeBron, but we've all seen what happens when Blatt does that...doesn't really have much of a choice, as Timo and TT aren't very good passers, and you want Love in the play with such little time left...only alternative that would have made sense is having Andy taking it out, but now you are down a 3 point threat.

 

[letgocavs]

JR could have taken the ball out.

 

[The Red Viper]

In that situation you want a proven passer bringing in the ball (with no timeouts left)...only other guy outside of the PGs I would trust and want passing that ball in is LeBron, but we've all seen what happens when Blatt does that...doesn't really have much of a choice, as Timo and TT aren't very good passers, and you want Love in the play with such little time left...only alternative that would have made sense is having Andy taking it out, but now you are down a 3 point threat.

TBH, I would prefer having Andy close the games than TT. We lose a bit in terms of defending but Andy's improvement on TT in the offensive end eclipses that. I don't want to talk about TT's contract because its boring to talk about it now but purely from an ability perspective, TT has to improve. We can't have him there in the closing mins just for his offensive rebounding. He has to either improve his rim-protection or get at least one decent go-to move in the offense so that he isn't a liability in the offensive end.

 

[BimboColesHair]

TBH, I would prefer having Andy close the games than TT. We lose a bit in terms of defending but Andy's improvement on TT in the offensive end eclipses that. I don't want to talk about TT's contract because its boring to talk about it now but purely from an ability perspective, TT has to improve. We can't have him there in the closing mins just for his offensive rebounding. He has to either improve his rim-protection or get at least one decent go-to move in the offense so that he isn't a liability in the offensive end.

I'm not going to start saying rotations need to change 1 game into the season, especially with how good Tristan (and the team with him on the floor in general) played down the stretch of close games in a much larger sample size last season...its 1 game, relax, we're going to be fine.

 

[InBoobieWeTrust]

I liked the set we had before the last play debacle where LBJ got blocked. Maybe Mo shouldn't have been inbounding, but if you go watch the play, when LBJ ran back, Mo missed a pretty easy bounce pass to an open Thompson who got really good position on Mirotic. It wasn't that bad of a set-up play. Maybe someone else should have taken the ball out, but I think the set itself was fine with LeBron being a distraction to open up a surprise lay-up. That worked for us multiple times last season.

 

[Otsego Mar]

I sure hope this team can stay healthy for at least a long (important) stretch.

 

[Gimme Some Mo]

3 issues tonight with Blatt...

1. Why did James Jones play over Andy in the 1st half? James Jones is terrible. Time to accept that.

2. Why is our smallest guy inbounding on that last play? Not to mention Mo probably had the best offensive game of anybody... he should've been on the court as a scoring option.

3. I know it's game 1, but it sickens me to see Kevin Love used just like last season.

 

[The Red Viper]

I'm not going to start saying rotations need to change 1 game into the season, especially with how good Tristan (and the team with him on the floor in general) played down the stretch of close games in a much larger sample size last season...its 1 game, relax, we're going to be fine.

Yeah. I know but that was my complain last season as well, TBH. Think having TT there with LeBron, Love, Kyrie and JR/Mo is alright. But with Delly also there, I feel our offense becomes more limited. Would prefer JR to be there in closing stages till Kyrie is back.

Mo - JR - LeBron - Love - TT.

or

Mo - Delly - LeBron - Love - Andy.

Can't have both Delly and TT, IMO.

 

[BimboColesHair]

I liked the set we had before the last play debacle where LBJ got blocked. Maybe Mo shouldn't have been inbounding, but if you go watch the play, when LBJ ran back, Mo missed a pretty easy bounce pass to an open Thompson who got really good position on Mirotic. It wasn't that bad of a set-up play. Maybe someone else should have taken the ball out, but I think the set itself was fine with LeBron being a distraction to open up a surprise lay-up. That worked for us multiple times last season.

I wish in that situation LBJ would take it upon himself to initiate the play from out of bounds...we have enough offensive talent where we don't have to rely on him and he is the ideal player to take the ball out in those situations (smart, tall, and a very good passer)...unfortunately he emasculated Blatt last year when he attempted to do just that after it had worked quite a few times in the regular season (to Tristan vs LAC, Kyrie vs SA off the top of my head)...I think Blatt is wary about going back to that after what he went through in the playoffs when he tried to do the same thing.

 

[BimboColesHair]

Yeah. I know but that was my complain last season as well, TBH. Think having TT there with LeBron, Love, Kyrie and JR/Mo is alright. But with Delly also there, I feel our offense becomes more limited. Would prefer JR to be there in closing stages till Kyrie is back.

Mo - JR - LeBron - Love - TT.

or

Mo - Delly - LeBron - Love - Andy.

Can't have both Delly and TT, IMO.

Why? Go look at how good Tristan and the group he was with in close games was last year. That lineup was lights out from a statistical standpoint. I honestly don't get why people can complain about a lineup that was that good...is it because people hate Tristan so he ruins everything in their minds?

And you can't go all offense when trying to comeback in games...you have to get stops. Why Delly and TT were out there, and it worked...it got us back in the game with a chance to tie or win.

 

[Pioneer10]

Please use PnR with Love. They do it all the the time with TT. Just no excuse for Love not to get as many or more plays like that

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[Helium filament]

Why? Go look at how good Tristan and the group he was with in close games was last year. That lineup was lights out from a statistical standpoint. I honestly don't get why people can complain about a lineup that was that good...is it because people hate Tristan so he ruins everything in their minds?

And you can't go all offense when trying to comeback in games...you have to get stops. Why Delly and TT were out there, and it worked...it got us back in the game with a chance to tie or win.

I know we've discussed this several times before, but statistically our starting lineup was much better than when TT was in. Not sure why you keep using those stats when we have no other lineups "in close games" to compare to. It makes more sense to not use that qualifier so that you actually can use fair sample sizes. Our starting lineup (not including TT) was historically good.

 

[BimboColesHair]

I know we've discussed this several times before, but statistically our starting lineup was much better than when TT was in. Not sure why you keep using those stats when we have no other lineups "in close games" to compare to. It makes more sense to not use that qualifier so that you actually can use fair sample sizes. Our starting lineup (not including TT) was historically good.

My whole point is it worked, and we won a lot of games down the stretch with him out there...so why the hell is Blatt being criticized for it? I don't get that.