GAME 68 | Cavaliers vs Heat | Wednesday Mar. 20 7:00 pm

[Rich]

Think about all the good press that would have come from the Cavs ending the streak.

Instead, people keep talking about the Heat, and Cleveland is the punchline again.

It was a missed opportunity, and a huge let-down.

-KT

As soon as you guys stop caring about the press/media think of Cleveland, the Cavs, and by extension you, you'll be much happier.

 

[I.K.W.T]

I thought this was funny though.

 

[3 Ball...GOT IT]

I'm going to be completely disinterested in anything Cavs other than draft talk. Should just shut the site down outside of the draft threads lol

 

[AvonCavsFan]

Watch Scott Brooks, Doc Rivers, Popovich, and shit even watch D'Antoni. During the game, they talk to the team. During timeouts, they talk to their players, they get them fired up (Popovich maybe not as much lol). They dont stand there with their arms crossed. They COACH. When a team starts to make a run, they call a timeout, or mix up a rotation, they do something. Even with Gibson as the only other option, do something. He didn't. He stood there with his arms crossed.

Pop sure does coach his team on the sidelines.

I sat first row behind the Spurs bench when they were town (terrible place to sit to watch the game by the way, can't see the damn court very well, but a unique perspective on seeing the coach interact with the players).

There was a sequence when he pulled Danny Green from the game, walked down and said to him (and I am paraphrasing here): "I don't know what the fuck you were doing. That sure as fuck was not good defense. If you playing fucking defense like that again, you won't ever see the fucking floor again." Danny's defense picked up when he went back in.

As for Byron. I am not a fan. Tactically I just don't think he gets it. We should have used every damn time out we had to slow that run down. I was at the game and for 10 straight minutes it seems Miami had at least 2 or 3 guys WIDE OPEN on the three point line. When you are up 27 fucking points--let them drive. Foul them at the rim if you have to. But the fastest way for a team to get back in the game is the three ball--and especially when you have Battier, Allen and Chalmers, you can't leave those three wide open and we did. Miami made 11 out of 14 threes in that period. Our guys should have been told: "DO NOT LEAVE YOUR GUY".

Zellers (who I don't like because he is soft), was playing really well--4 fouls and he sits--he ended the game with 4 fouls. 11 boards in 23 minutes. This was the perfect game for him, because he could play the softest player in the league (Bosh). At one point in the game, we had a 34 to 10 rebounding edge (per the scoreboard). Final tally was 42-34--so they out rebounded us 24 to 8 to close the game out. Why did we go away from what was working?? Let Zellers foul out, max out his minutes.

Also Walton was having severe issues with the mask--as soon as he saw that he should have pulled him, yet he left him in while Luke was fiddling with the thing the whole time-until he tossed it and played without it. By then he was rattled and out of sorts.

And another tactical thing he does not do is take the 2 for 1 very consistently. It is the easiest way to get gain a possession or two during the damn game.

I could ramble on..but that is it for now.

 

[brownindian]

Me thinks Byron is a good teacher but not a good coach. There cant be a better explanation to this lack of timeouts fiasco which saw the Heat slash a 27 point lead.