Yep. This team really just quit tonight. That lazy pass by Sasha thatled to the Nate Robinson steal and dunk perfectly captures the Cavs spirit right now. But that is not teh only problem. The list is long...
1. The Cavs players gave up. Not just tonight, but over the course of teh last two weeks.
2. Coach Brown has no functioning offensive scheme. My high school team ran better sets than those the Cavs presently run.
3. Teams have figured out the Cavs help-out defense and realize that good ball movement and dribble penetration effectively nullify it 9resulting in wide-open jump shotson the wing).
4. You have no functioning pg on the team. Snow is yor best pg, but he is too offensively challenged to be of real service. Hughes is your second best pg and he has made up his mind that he does not want to and will not play pg. Boobie, DJ and the Browns are not pgs. If you have a coach who does not have an effective offense, then you need a pg out there who can override his calls and mask his deficiencies. There aren't many pgs in the league who can do that unfortunately. I don't think anyone short of Jason Kidd or Steve Nash could make coach Brown's offensive sets work.
5. Your television play-by-play guys are painful to listen to. I respect austin Carr as a player, but who owed this guy a favor and gave him the television job? He must have some dirt on the Cav's owner. The other guy is a bit annoying, but at least he is mostly coherent. It bares repeating (since it may not seem like it)...I respect Austin Carr as a player.
6. Mike Borwn is too soft. How on earth does Sasha Pavlovic get back in the game after that pass that resulted in Nate Robinson's steal and dunk? Surely there was someone on the bench that have played out garbage-time in the 4th quarter in his stead. I would have broken the leagues rules and put Donyell Marshall out there (suit, dress shoes and all).
7. If that Knicks game were at home at the Q, then the team owner, if he was a decent man, would have to refund every fan who attended the gamme the price of admission and make the Cavs players and coaching staff pay pro-rated shares of the economic loss. Everyone except LeBron James and Z that is. Z is having a heck of a season (just didn't play well tonight).
8. Finally, note to coach Brown. When the Knicks had both David Lee and Eddie Curry on the floor inthe 4th quarter, then you need more than one big man out there to counter them. Av was not enough. Watching Larry, LeBron and Devin look at David Lee pull down boards like Moses Malone is pretty nauseating.
