Change your name to Blatts Mom. LeBron has forgotten more about basketball than Blatt will ever know.The cavs must choose... It can't be both lebron's team and david's team. meanwhile it seems that coach blatt does not have a full control on this team and they are playing untypical wild neighborhood basketball, just the opposite of the style that blatt usually dictates. that's a pity because he is really good coach, it just that he may don't have a chance to show it. He should summon lebron and talk things through, and lebron should understand that he will continue to get his ass kicked by better teams if he continues to act like he is in charge, and to tell you the truth with his season opener he isn't playing that well to deserve his status. and you might think I'm crazy for saying that but I would still pick blatt over poppovich any day, it just that one team listens better and I don't even know if the other listens at all...
Change your name to Blatts Mom. LeBron has forgotten more about basketball than Blatt will ever know.
He has been coaching for 20 years, Kidd and all other ex players are coaching.At this point he should give all control to the assistants until he learns to become one himself. Guy coach's like he's never been at least an assistant coach in the NBA.
I would still pick blatt over poppovich any day, it just that one team listens better and I don't even know if the other listens at all...
I'm actually going to reply to your comment to your reply seriously. If you think lebron knows more basketball than blatt you are delusional, david blatt's has been midas in the basketball world for the past 15 years, every team he coached won something sooner rather than later, its not a fluke that he is the first "european" coach entrusted with an nba team. regarding the coaching level in europe, if you think for one second that the coaching level there is lower than the NBA you simply don't know euroball, The NBA might have the best players but the best coaches are in europe, take Pop for example, he is actually stealing plays for the spurs from some known coaches in europe, he brought messina to be his assistant and some might say his successor. you think pop don't know basketball?!Cly bechaange your name to Blatts Mom. LeBron has forgotten more about basketball than Blatt will ever know.
No one is above criticism, and I think his rotations and usage of timeouts are really .. amateurish .. for lack of a better word.
Discuss.
I'm actually going to reply to your comment to your reply seriously. If you think lebron knows more basketball than blatt you are delusional, david blatt's has been midas in the basketball world for the past 15 years, every team he coached won something sooner rather than later, its not a fluke that he is the first "european" coach entrusted with an nba team. regarding the coaching level in europe, if you think for one second that the coaching level there is lower than the NBA you simply don't know euroball, The NBA might have the best players but the best coaches are in europe, take Pop for example, he is actually stealing plays for the spurs from some known coaches in europe, he brought messina to be his assistant and some might say his successor. you think pop don't know basketball?!
the problem is more profound, in order to beat a well coached disciplined team you must have a well coached disciplined team, pop said it in an interview himself: " we only get players who are over themselves", and unfortunately I don't see how lebron fits in that category. and with all do respect and I have much respect for lebron, I think his baskeball IQ is way overrated, there is a tendency for people to praise him for things that he is not only because he is a great player.
You know, last year deep in December of 2013 Blatt was one game before to be fired , since Maccabi started bad that season. And one of the Maccabi owners didn't love him (exactly like you and maybe even more). Finally you know what happened - they won it all! Even then after winning the Euro-League and all the rest titles in the season that Maccabi owner didn't want to give Blatt a good word because he didn't like him nevertheless what he won. I guess it's going to happen the same with you. Even in case of Cavs have great success this season we'll never hear a good word from you about Blatt.HAS NOTHING to do with any political issue. Hell, Dan Gilbert probably shares the same politcal views as Blatt, and I love and support Dan G to the fullest.
If you're blind to see that this guy's style of coaching is not FIT for this team, than I'm going to imagine you really are in denial of this guys lack of competence as an NBA coach.