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

[shoes22]

JBB coached very well last night, I thought. Cedi even credits him with his improvement.

 

[BimboColesHair]

For everyone here who sees what they want to see and always brings up how the Cavs run no plays or no good plays out of stoppages, I urge you to go watch the set play the Cavs ran to start the 4th quarter to get Mobley an easy dunk.

Set the tone for a quarter where Mobley was leaned on to close out the game offensively.

And I agree with everyone else saying this was a loss last season. It absolutely was, we saw this exact game vs Orlando late last season that ended as a backbreaking loss.

 

[Sir'Dom Pointer]

For everyone here who sees what they want to see and always brings up how the Cavs run no plays or no good plays out of stoppages, I urge you to go watch the set play the Cavs ran to start the 4th quarter to get Mobley an easy dunk.

Set the tone for a quarter where Mobley was leaned on to close out the game offensively.

And I agree with everyone else saying this was a loss last season. It absolutely was, we saw this exact game vs Orlando late last season that ended as a backbreaking loss.

I have 0 issues with the set plays this season. Really.

It's all about rotations and feel right now.

 

[BimboColesHair]

I have 0 issues with the set plays this season. Really.

It's all about rotations and feel right now.

It's game 4. Everyone's biggest complaint about his lineups has been Okoro starting.

Okoro not only was taken out of the starting lineup after all of 2 games, he was effectively benched in the 2nd half of a tight game last night in game 4.

He rode the hot lineup against Washington in OT instead of subbing the starters back in in game 3. He coached circles around Billy Donovan in game 2.

What is the current complaint about "rotations and feel" right now?

 

[Sir'Dom Pointer]

It's game 4. Everyone's biggest complaint about his lineups has been Okoro starting.

Okoro not only was taken out of the starting lineup after all of 2 games, he was effectively benched in the 2nd half of a tight game last night in game 4.

He rode the hot lineup against Washington in OT instead of subbing the starters back in in game 3. He coached circles around Billy Donovan in game 2.

What is the current complaint about "rotations and feel" right now?

It's an extension of last season. I wrote it in the gamethread.

I want him to mix and match more and abuse matchups. Last night he had to put Allen against Bol Bol. Twice before he was subbed out during both halves he completely bullied him under the basket.on both occasions the Cavs could have iced the game had he stayed on the floor. Instead he subbed him out and kept Mobley in.

Cavs should dictate the natchups, not the other way around. We have so many options to choose from to abuse particular matchups. There also isn't a valid explanation to why he couldn't give Lopez a few minutes. I didn't see anybody that could guard him and he could have been paired with Mobley to assist him with help defense. A little bit of toughness, great screening and easy points is worth the occasional 3pt attempt by Bol.

It's not a shame to play deep early in the season and I'm not convinced he would gave been abused on the other end. So far he has played great.

 

[BimboColesHair]

It's an extension of last season. I wrote it in the gamethread.

I want him to mix and match more and abuse matchups. Last night he had to put Allen against Bol Bol. Twice before he was subbed out during both halves he completely bullied him under the basket.on both occasions the Cavs could have iced the game had he stayed on the floor. Instead he subbed him out and kept Mobley in.

Cavs should dictate the natchups, not the other way around. We have so many options to choose from to abuse particular matchups. There also isn't a valid explanation to why he couldn't give Lopez a few minutes. I didn't see anybody that could guard him and he could have been paired with Mobley to assist him with help defense. A little bit of toughness, great screening and easy points is worth the occasional 3pt attempt by Bol.

It's not a shame to play deep early in the season and I'm not convinced he would gave been abused on the other end. So far he has played great.

So let me get this straight.

You want Jarrett Allen out there more to abuse the mismatch against Bol Bol, but also want the team to play deeper and give Robin Lopez more minutes? At the expense of minutes to Jarrett Allen, the C you want to see on the floor more. I'm reading that correct? Or are you wanting to pull Jarrett Allen in the regular season at his normal break times, but instantly sub him back in the moment you see Bol Bol go and check into the game?

And Allen was subbed for Mobley. Shouldn't we expect Mobley to also abuse a matchup with Bol Bol? We're talking about Bol fucking Bol.

And if you want the Cavs to "dictate the matchups" wanting Allen in the game solely to abuse Bol Bol when Orlando puts him in the game sounds an awful lot like Orlando dictating the matchups. If you want to win the matchups, then I would be agreeing with you.

And play deeper how? If he plays Okoro even 1 second he is bashed by the play a deeper rotation crowd and fans in general. If he plays Lopez against a young team that plays fast and he gets ran off the floor he's an idiot for even putting him in in the first place. His starting PG and backup PG are both hurt. Play deeper how? I think he is doing a great job spreading minutes around right now. Only one player played more than 35 minutes last night in a game where his rotation was only 9 deep and the game was close until the last few minutes. Tells me he is not pulling a "Thibodeau" and isn't running his starters into the ground, and is playing his bench players deeper minutes when they are playing well.

The only guy I don't understand getting no run with the Cavs effectively playing PG free basketball at the moment and opting to play more wings is Lamar Stevens.

And this goes back to last season too. Play deeper how with no Rubio, no Sexton, multiple bouts of Covid, Garland missing a lengthy stretch, Allen missing a lengthy stretch, Mobley missing a lengthy stretch. It's saying something that the only player on the team last year who played in 70 games was Kevin Love, who had played like 70 games in the previous 3 seasons combined. So play deeper how? I see all the complaining about guys like Okoro, Pangos, Valentine, Nembhard, Rondo, Windler when they play meaningful minutes by the same people perched up on their high horse screaming the rotation needs to be deeper. It makes no sense to me.

At this point you guys are just nitpicking out things every coach does throughout the regular season and acting like only JBB does them. Go watch Pop, go watch Spo, go watch Nurse and I am sure you will see head scratching subs in your eyes every single game, or them sticking to their rudimentary regular season sub patterns when their players are available...if you can even objectively do that that is.

 

[2 For The Brew]

In England if performance in the first half is bad the manager "gets the hairdryer out". That means he yells so loudly the players' hair is blown back.

It's a locker room that will respond to being called out, which is great. Some players don't give a shit and just tune out criticism, legit or not.

No Garland; Mitchell Love and LeVert shooting poorly, but they won anyway because the team busted ass defensively. It wasn't pretty but a W is what matters even against a weak team like Orlando.

 

[Lee]

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.

This cant be true.

JBB is the worst coach ever. We are playing well without our top 2 PG's, nothing JBB is right, anything good that happens is pure luck on his part, oh and JBB agrees with Kanye. He is a monster.

 

[Lee]

JBB coached very well last night, I thought. Cedi even credits him with his improvement.

Cedi is playing well because he has learned his role as a valuable role player off the bench and not Turkish Lebron.

If JBB helped with that, he deserves credit for sure.

 

[Cavatt]

In England if performance in the first half is bad the manager "gets the hairdryer out". That means he yells so loudly the players' hair is blown back.

It's a locker room that will respond to being called out, which is great. Some players don't give a shit and just tune out criticism, legit or not.

No Garland; Mitchell Love and LeVert shooting poorly, but they won anyway because the team busted ass defensively. It wasn't pretty but a W is what matters even against a weak team like Orlando.

They looked locked in on defense and dictated the game on that end when they came out after the half. Yes, very good to see the team respond. Mobley too on Banchero and slowed him too in the 2nd half.

 

[FrontPageNews]

JBB changed my opinion on him when he swapped okoro for wade. I get it he had to at least try with okoro but at least he made the right adjustment.

 

[letgocavs]

His best win as a coach. I thought they were dead in the water. He might not be a great X’s and O’s, but he really knows how to communicate and get his team ready to play.

 

[Cassity14]

Celtics got a perfect first half and the Cavs stuck with them and stole one. Coaching is a factor in a win like that.

For those who talk about dictating matchups, JBB did exactly that tonight. The Celtics couldn't figure out how to play against Allen and Mobley, and even when they went on runs with various groups, JBB stuck to his guys and forced the Celtics to beat them straight up over 53 minutes, which they couldn't do.

 

[2 For The Brew]

Can we give this man some love for a great start without Darius? This team is busting ass and playing D when it's really needed. Our locker room is top notch. We're playing great team ball.

The utter lack of respect for our coach isn't just old - it's becoming ridiculous. He has his shortcomings but he's getting the job done.

JBB - Just B*ttf*cked Boston.

 

[buzzdog]

The whole team is bought in including Donovan.