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John-Blair Bickerstaff: Currently The 6th Longest Tenured Head Coach

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Will JBB Return Next Season as Cavs Coach?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 2.8%

  • No

    Votes: 16 44.4%

  • Only if a Miracle Happens

    Votes: 5 13.9%

  • Injuries Derailed the Season, not JBB

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • He Should be Fired Right Meow

    Votes: 11 30.6%

  • Only if Jim Chones Replaces Him

    Votes: 3 8.3%
  • Total voters
    36
BimboColesHair said:
Fun fact.

A lot of these people wanting JBB to be fired also thought Ty Lue was a terrible coach and wanted him fired.
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Ah, I hadn't discovered this board in the Ty Lue era. I'm not surprised. He got criticized in 2017 and 2018, if I recall correctly.
 
I think he is doing pretty well. Mitchell got too much run last night, but what are you going to do? Very hard to take him off the floor when he is playing like that. Mitchell and Caris both tried to hero win it all at the end and should have continued to move the ball. That was on them IMO

He has played the flow of the game better than I think he has. He has not been automatic with his rotations. Even the way he has deployed Rolo has been the right move.

Probably needs more Wade. I get the Okoro hate, but he was pretty crucial in slowing down Derozan and Beal at times. They played Beal close up on purpose and made him drive, which he did really well, but he didn't take a single 3 last night. They made him into a finisher playmaker and it wasn't enough for the Wiz to win.
 
It gets overlooked way too much that JBB is the leader of probably the best locker room in basketball right now. Nit pick away, but he’s likely going to be our coach as long as this team continues to buy into him. Very happy with how he has this squad playing.
 
shoes22 said:
On this board? He got criticized from Day 1 :chuckle:
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Were there Blatt supporters? There probably were. There's everything else.

I can't see how he got criticized in 2016. He was pushed into the coaching job against his will and then overachieved.
 
jjvors said:
Were there Blatt supporters? There probably were. There's everything else.
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There were indeed, yes. A significant faction of them actually (including several posters from Israel) who felt like Blatt got the short end of the stick.
 
shoes22 said:
There were indeed, yes. A significant faction of them actually (including several posters from Israel) who felt like Blatt got the short end of the stick.
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Yeah, I kind of felt that way. It was a locker room rebellion and the front office should have backed up the coach. The team's record was great, better with Blatt than Lue.

That said, a lot of what Blatt tried didn't work in the NBA. He was the beneficiary of a great team with superstars and one of the top three players of all time. He was certainly from outside the NBA culture.
 
These rotations where our spacing looks like the implosion model from the Manhattan Project are starting to worry me. Players, especially big men, needing room to operate offensively is not an advanced coaching concept.
 
Can't he just start the backup PG while his point guard is out for a few games? Neto being a vet and all.
 
World of credit to JB tonight. He pushed the right buttons and stayed on his guys as they certainly didn’t have their legs all night or their typical energy in the first half.

Giving Wade the starting nod was the difference in the game.
 
It’s nice to see guys who have been around a while still listening to him. always on the lookout for guys tuning out a hardass like JBB.
 
jjvors said:
Were there Blatt supporters? There probably were. There's everything else.

I can't see how he got criticized in 2016. He was pushed into the coaching job against his will and then overachieved.
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That's debatable.
 
Cassity14 said:
World of credit to JB tonight. He pushed the right buttons and stayed on his guys as they certainly didn’t have their legs all night or their typical energy in the first half.

Giving Wade the starting nod was the difference in the game.
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Dean Wade with efficient shooting from deep is exactly what we need from the 3. Very nice performance tonight.
 
JBB reamed them out at halftime.

Last season, Bickerstaff lamented perplexing losses against teams with worse records. In his eyes, there were too many of them, which played a critical role in missing the playoffs. Washington twice. Charlotte twice. Detroit twice. Houston. Orlando. He hoped this year would be different, that his hunted group would learn lessons from that. Prior to tipoff, he even reiterated the importance of approaching every game with the same mindset and making sure the standards don’t change based on the opponent.

The first-half malaise felt too familiar. It drew his ire. The Cavs were headed for another one of those bafflers and Bickerstaff wasn’t about to let it happen -- again. So, he used the halftime break to get his point across. Sternly. With vulgarity.

The Cavs won the second half 49-42.

I'm optimistic the Cavs will have fewer of those games this year where they lose to an inferior opponent. Of course injuries played a big role in that, but the mindset may have been an issue as well.
 
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