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Larry Drew - Cavaliers Acting Head Coach

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Cavatt said:
You just run pick and roll with those guys and Clarkson. They can score off of that. Let JR be the spacer.
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Run a high PnR with either Zizic or Nance on the ball and have one of them screen off the ball for our perimeter shooters...shouldn't be this difficult. They will generate good looks.
 
Sir'Dom Pointer said:
I think Nance and Zizic can definitely be on the court together. You give the team a different look. A new defensive look, and offensively much better scoring inside and a relentless offensive rebounding duo.

It's not all about the spacing. You can be good without a stretch 4...just got to be more creative. I mean, most teams second units don't have a stretch 4. Heck, the Warriors bench spacing is terrible.
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We need all our guys back to figure this shit out .

Nance 28 Zizic 20 covers us at center . Love 32 Bron/Green 16 at PF . TT 48 Towel waving / butt smacking .
 
Cavatt said:
Yep. It should just be screen city out there.
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Yup. Moving or not - like Draymond realized... If you do something often enough, the refs start turning a blind eye to let the game flow better. Stupid that very few teams have really taken advantage of this.
 
In the presser Larry said "Monday night quarterback". And he said coaches Don't foul up 3 because they "just trust in their defense" so I guess that means he didn't lol.
 
Anyone catch post game interview ? Regarding defense question he answered “ we’re short handed and just when he was about to say the names he said 2 pieces under his breath . It’s as if he thought about the names , hesitated and preferred to say “2 pieces “. This could be a good sign TT is out of the rotation . I’m assuming he was thinking of Hood and Nance.
 
He’s pressed the right buttons tonight.
 
TyGuy said:
He’s pressed the right buttons tonight.
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I thought it was Lebron completely turning on the switch to be quite honest. I didn't like Drews rotations and minute management tonight at all, but I did like that he switched from drop coverage to hard Blitz. That was a good move and it worked.

Again, i'll give him that.
 
Sir'Dom Pointer said:
I thought it was Lebron completely turning on the switch to be quite honest. I didn't like Drews rotations and minute management tonight at all, but I did like that he switched from drop coverage to hard Blitz. That was a good move and it worked.

Again, i'll give him that.
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I think he did a great job bringing Hill back earlier in the 4th. Clarkson has had too much time in the second half of games. Also feels like for the first time Hill has been told to take it to the hoop and not "hey Georgie boy, do what you do, cat." Or whatever Lue would say to him to sound like the fun uncle...

Can make this excuse for Lue as well but our roster was depleted today. I think it's the most short handed we've been since the trade game against Minny. He gave George Hill a lot of minutes, yanked Clarkson early, realized Zizic was having a tough time and pulled him out before it got much worse. And as you said, switched out the drop coverage which was basically the reason they were killing us from 3 in the first half and then fell hard down to earth in the second. +18 in a half to the Raptors is BIG considering they have a top 5 defense and offense. LeBron also played 39 minutes, which in a game like this is actually impressive. Didn't overplay rotations in the second half.

Again, this could be an anomaly based off the fact we're missing 5 guys from the rotation and things could go worse. But I didn't hate what I saw in the second half.
 
I replayed the post game interview with Drew and he clearly said we we’re missing 2 pieces . He actually gave it some thought before saying it as well. Just a nervous mistake ? Or was he being honest without caring about what he just said ? I count 5 pieces missing tonight if TT is included . Korver / Hood / Nance / Cedi / TT.
100% chance will be in playoff rotation
Bron
Love
Hill
Nance
Green

Tier 2
Korver
Clarkson
Hood
Smith

Tier 3
Cedi
Zizic
Jose - possible he snags back-up pg role

And no clue where they value TT yet.

I guess it’s good they have plenty of options and maybe I’m over thinking what Drew meant when he said missing 2 pieces . Time will tell.
 
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