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Game #60 | Cleveland Cavaliers (35-24) vs. Brooklyn Nets (19-41) | February 27th, 2018 @ 7:00 PM

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You have zero objectivetivity on Lue.

I respect that you at least can intelligently illustrate some of the things you dislike about his decisions and I agree with some of them as I’ve maintained he’s an average coach who does some things well and something poorly.

But you’ve already made it clear that we could have a perfect game, and you would give ZERO percent of the credit to Lue. Which gets at a strange paradox wherein when we’re playing well it’s ALL in the players and when we’re playing poorly it’s ALL because things he did in game, in practice, or schematically.

LeBron in the post game interview even said they tried out several new things defensively, which is what you do when you have new personnel and a short amount of time to figure out what they can and can not do before you have to settle in on a more narrow plan of attack in matchup specific playoff games.

You’ll give this a disagree and suggest that I’m defending or endorsing Lue which I’m not in fact doing. I’m taking issue with how you assign responsibility for what happens on the floor, especially at this point here we’re still working in 4 new guys, defining Cedi’s role, and doing it all as we can only anticipate how Love will fit into and positively/negatively affect what we’re doing.

I'm not giving you a disagree, because I don't like to do it.

But I disagree. I have absolute objectivity.

If I saw a black log on my floor I would hope it was just mud, but if it smelled like shit after smelling it 164 times i'm sure as hell going to point out that it stinks.

The variables had changed, we traded for athletic players on the wings, one great PnR defender in Hill and an excellent Big Man defender in Nance... we were good defensively before the coaching staff had instilled their scheme and now we look even worse defensively. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that our coaching staff and Lue in particular are the only constant in this equation.

Only thing I want is the best for the team, and for me, as someone who watches basketball a bit too much and is familiar with a lot of things it just pops out.

Lue has two and half seasons under his belt as a Cavaliers coach and we have regressed each and every season.

I'm sorry.
 
Maybe not on one end of the floor.
He just averaged a triple double for the month of February, but if you can't enjoy watching him play while he's still in the NBA that's your loss.
 
He just averaged a triple double for the month of February, but if you can't enjoy watching him play while he's still in the NBA that's your loss.

Lebron in the last 3 mins attacked the basket like a man possessed. He wanted this win badly after he had realized the Cavs were in major trouble.
This was insane.

His defense though was not up to par.
 
Lebron in the last 3 mins attacked the basket like a man possessed. He wanted this win badly after he had realized the Cavs were in major trouble.
This was insane.

His defense though was not up to par.
His defense (or lackthereof) during the regular doesn't really bother me much. He's turned it on this year when he needed to. It's when he gets passive on offense and settles for jumpers that I get annoyed.
 
His defense (or lackthereof) during the regular doesn't really bother me much. He's turned it on this year when he needed to. It's when he gets passive on offense and settles for jumpers that I get annoyed.

He tries to conserve energy to start the game when there is not much at stake. If he shot those jumpers to end the game tonight it would have sucked, but luckily he didn't because there was too much at stake.
 
LeBron with a super humble interview with Allie.

I mean, he has a right to say what he says, but that was the biggest case of sucking your own dick that I’ve seen in awhile.

At least since he congratulated himself on scoring 30,000 points.
 
His defense (or lackthereof) during the regular doesn't really bother me much. He's turned it on this year when he needed to. It's when he gets passive on offense and settles for jumpers that I get annoyed.

The issue with this is what Lebron does, the team does. Play shotty defense all regular season it translates to when it really matters, and that showed last year.
 
This Nets team is terrible. Everything we did tonight was wrong.

I'm relieved beyond belief that the Cavs won this game, as I can't imagine how I would feel if they didn't. This just shouldn't be like this.

Every defensive PnR play was bad, every switch was late and uncoordinated, players were rotating to the wrong players...it was a total chaos.

There was no reason to switch the PnRs tonight as the Nets are one of the worst teams in the league in PnRs. Literally the only thing they are good at on the offensive end is shooting Spot ups in which they are ranked 4th in the league.

I have seen everything tonight. I'm traumatized and and disgusted by our game plan(or lack thereof) and execution.

Just by scouting the Nets though they should probably be the easiest teams to score against given our personnel. They can not defend off-screens to save their lives...Korver could have reached 30 points easily if we ran stagger screens for him on every possession.

I can't believe Nance took that 16 foot jumper...this requires some big fucking balls. Wow.

Actually all role players came up big tonight, so they might not be regular role players after all and might come up big when it counts in the playoffs.

I applaud the players on the floor tonight for saving the Nets pick. I salute them.

I almost had a heart attack, seriously.

They said they were trying something new defensively and their timing was terrible.

TT cannot switch onto guards anymore. Change of pace and the guard went right by him. I was ok with TT giving up some 3s on the perimeter, but getting blown by every time means he cannot switch like that anymore . If they don't recognize that it is going to give me a heart attack too. Here'sHe that guy anymore.

This seemed like the worst game defensively. If this keeps up, Longbardi had got to go. He had been such a negative as far as I can tell. Here is worse than normal player instincts according to the first 2 games. That is an epic fail.

The fact that the Cavs tried to fire him this year really really makes me want this dude gone.
 
I didn't watch the game, but I see our great defensive mastermind of a coach showed his prowess again.
 
Glad they got the win but flabbergasted it took everything to go right to beat the lowly Brooklyn Nets.
 
This team couldn’t stop a motherfucking nose bleed
 
It’s Longabardi defensively installing his shitty schemes.

But for some reason, Lue won’t let the FO axe that guy. They wanted to. Lue said he’d walk if Longo goes.

So....why aren’t they firing Longo?
 

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