Rick Astley
A rich man's Dahntay Jones
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Rookie coach who was supposed to be "fired" mid-season then burned everything in his path to the Finals. Oy muthafucking vey!
Blatt with a giant STFU to everyone.
Bud, "Spurs-East," "Spurs-Lite," "beautiful basketball," "basketball played the right way," got destroyed beyond recognition. Obliterated.
Funny how the narrative keeps changing around the internet: "Hawks are the worst #1 seed ever, Hawks have no stars, theyre injured, Bulls aren't that good, the East sucks, excuse, excuse, excuse."
Sit down, shut the hell up, and give proper recognition to Blatt and staff. NOBODY predicted this type of ass-kicking. Nobody.
Just imagine how good this team would be if they had a good coach!
I'll caveat this by saying that Blatt has done a great job in the postseason. I haven't checked the stats, but it seems like most of the time when the Cavs have gone with a Lebron-less lineup they've held their own or extended leads. It leads me to wonder why they can't get a few more minutes out of the Marions of the world, or slide JR to the 3 to get Lebron more rest so he isn't so exhausted at the end of the game. If the team is going well, get Lebron 5 mins rest instead of 3. In the second half get him a couple of minutes late 3rd or start of the 4th instead of playing him the entire 2nd half. I think fatigue is behind some of the 4th quarter lulls the team has had.
Blatt is basically playing 7 guys (8th guy getting token minutes) and often he's pretty much running 3-4 guys the last half of the 3rd and entire 4th quarters. Seems like the Cavs would be better prepped for the stretch run with Lebron, for example, playing 37 minutes instead of 42. If the team was giving up big runs w/him out of there I could see the dilemma, but that hasn't really been the case.
This is the one area of Blatt's that has seemed a little, uh, Mike Brown-ish.