Pioneer10
Come home Sideshow Bob
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The Cavs are not in an enviable position. They really only have three options, judging by the comments, and they all kind of suck right now. Which one would hurt least?
1. Keep Blatt, hope things correct themselves and we all laugh about this come May. Or it doesn't and they fire him after the season. Cue the fourth coach in three years and everything that entails.
2. Fire Blatt after the weekend and replace him with Lue. Now the season is in the hands of another rookie coach who is, by most accounts, not a great Xs and Os guy. It's his billet to run the defense. Which he has. Into the ground. If it works out, ok, if not, another coaching search. Maybe the Cavs need a personality guy like Lue rather than a another Popovich.
3. Fire Blatt, hire (preferably) George Karl or someone like Jackson. The Cavs now have the dislocation of a change in culture and trying to integrate a new system with new players in the middle of a season. Upside is they would then have all summer to prepare for the next season in a single system and with a unity of command with a coach whose previous work demands respect.
I don't really mean to demean Blatt by saying things aren't working out. Blatt was hired to coach a very different team. As a rookie coach who never even served as an assistant in the NBA. It is a lot to ask.
Karl seems to be least vomitous option. Experienced NBA coach, gets the most out of his team, players respect him, he's not Mark Jackson