David Blatt coached well in the finals honestly

[mastermind]

there like 12 roster spots and 5 players allowed on the court, so countless permutations if we want to be literal. the fact of the matter is, kerr changed it up once he saw his team's weaknesses being exploited. it's blatt's job to institute a sound strategy and once it's beaten, adjust. he failed. green was not the starter going into the season, iggy was not the starter, klay had an embarrassing string a games this series, festus e managed to come up big,. kerr made sound decision and blatt stayed stuck in the mud. was defensive with media about not using mosgov in the previous game then went ahead and did it the very next game. he can grow and i would expect him too, but this is a L.

so you dont have an actual adjustment.

cool.

 

[BreezyH]

so you dont have an actual adjustment.

cool.

and neither did blatt, but who's the professional

 

[mastermind]

and neither did blatt, but who's the professional

there was no adjustment to make.

Cleveland had a very limited line up.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Dennis Rodman's opinion is more valuable than your dumb ass opinion. What did you actually refute?

I didn't have an opinion, I did however read the opinions of players on the team.

The point was, people were actually valuing his opinion knowing full well he hadn't been anywhere near the Warriors to even know what was going on. They just used some vapid reasoning of Rodman's NBA accomplishments, as if that meant he had "intimate knowledge" of exactly what kind of input Kerr had. Especially since we had actual quotes from players that said how much influence he's had on the team -

“They’re running me in the high post a lot more and utilising my passing and it’s been great so far. Steve Kerr’s turned around my career and getting me back involved offensively, too, helps.”

“He’s adapted (multiple championship-winning coaches) Gregg Popovich and Phil Jackson and taken the best of all those guys and he continues to learn,” the 30-year-old said of Kerr. […] I think guys are starting to feed off that, he’s a very fair coach, he’s not a negative guy, he’s just got a positive vibe about him to be around every day and I’ve really enjoyed working with him so far and I think it will only get better.”

Under Mark Jackson, Barnes was asked to be a scorer. Especially last year, when Barnes was moved to the Sixth Man role after the signing of Andre Iguodala, Barnes’ role was to carry the offense for the second unit. But most of his action was isolations. That just didn’t fit his game.

Before the season began, Kerr sat down with Barnes and went over film with him. Kerr explained where Barnes’ best spots were on the floor, where he should drift, where he should cut and how he wants him to exist in the Warriors’ potent starting lineup. Plus, Kerr started Barnes with Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson. That opens the floor for Barnes to cut and find creases to offensive rebound….

“It’s hard when you get the ball in an iso situation and you have a set defense in front of you,” Barnes said. “Very few players in the league can do that. You look at the best – Durant, Melo, those guys — look at what percentage they shoot. And that’s the best of the best, so you can imagine where I’m at. I’m like at 15, 20 percent on isos. To get me with the ball moving, getting me in different spots, playing off other people, that’s more of a strength for me right now. Going straight isos, that wasn’t a strength for me.”

Rodman's opinion or players on the team that have first-hand experience with Kerr? That's a tough one.

 

[BreezyH]

there was no adjustment to make.

Cleveland had a very limited line up.

stop. this team ran through the east and controlled the first 3 games of this series. blatt was countered and made no adjustments. he didn't trust players outside his rotation, even though many in his rotation weren't doing shyt anyway.

 

[mastermind]

stop. this team ran through the east

stop it slime.

that doesnt mean shyt in 2015.

 

[jwinfield]

stop. this team ran through the east

They beat the Celtics, a Bulls team hat was falling apart and a team that had Kyle Korver as it's #1 option

 

[RubioTheCruel]

he didn't trust players outside his rotation, even though many in his rotation weren't doing shyt anyway.

Who, exactly, could he have gone to? Irving, Love, Varajeo are out. Perkins and Haywood aren't answers. They saw Marion every day in practice. If he could play, he would have. Unless Joe Harris() was the X-factor, he didn't have a lot of options. MAYBE he puts Mike Miller in and he gets hot from 3, but that's a longshot at best.

 

[BStapies]

That decision wasn't down to him.



Take a good guess why a seven-man rotation shouldn't put a team with one of the best free-throw shooters in the penalty early.

I never said to do it early. Do it at the end of the 1st and 3rd quarters. Or when the Warriors are on a run and not missing to kill they momentum. It also gives ur team rest, slows the game down (which the cavs want) and kills any momentum the warriors have whenever they arent missing or on a run


If marion is , then wat is miller and jones? How does Marion get absolutely no minutes when he played big minutes for dallas last year? Even dirk was confused

AT LEAST bring him in to hack Iggy.

Its bad coaching man. Just bad coaching

 

[BStapies]

He really didnt though, played 25ish minutes in game 1 and 4. Not playing wouldn't have prevented the injury that he suffered.



He played in the Boston, Chicago and Atlanta series(admittedly it wasn't much).



Ehh.... Iggy's a 71% career FT shooter. If he got in rhythm he'd start sinking them. Anyways, I don't think racking up fouls is a good idea on a team playing a 7 man rotation out of necessity

He also shot worse then deandre jordan from the line in the finals

When a player that is killing you offensively and defensively has a glaring hole in his game that will force him to be taken out the game, you exploit it no matter what. Even if he hits one, thats better then him getting a wide open three or Curry pulling from 30 and draining it.

At least bring marion in to foul iggy and get ur team some rest, slow the game down and kill the warriors momentum whenever they go on their offensive bursts.

Just bad coaching mistakes. Any experienced coach like greg pop wouldve exploited that by game 4.

"If you cant hit free throws, thats your problem" - greg pop

 

[PortCityProphet]

David Blatt is more than expendable. LOL @ him being there first meaning anything, especially since most are in agreement that if they knew Bron was coming back Blatt would have been an assistant for Golden State right now. He just had damn near a full year to earn respect or stand up like a man and demand it. From the outside looking in he didn't do that.

LeBron came back to Cleveland with Dan Gilbert still owning the team. The move was clearly a lot bigger than basketball.

All coaches in the nba are expendable. It's a players league. Dude was probably on eggshells the whole year cause if he poss Bron off after one meeting with management it's bushes for blatt.
Idk if Bron respected him or not but he shouldn't have acted like a brat and undermined him so much.

 

[BreezyH]

Who, exactly, could he have gone to? Irving, Love, Varajeo are out. Perkins and Haywood aren't answers. They saw Marion every day in practice. If he could play, he would have. Unless Joe Harris() was the X-factor, he didn't have a lot of options. MAYBE he puts Mike Miller in and he gets hot from 3, but that's a longshot at best.

people were ready to file papers on barnes last year, festus came up big when few if any expected him to have significant moments. coaches find the glitches and exploit. blatt did a decent watch, but "well" is an outright falsehood and he was thoroughly outcoached in the money games

 

[FTBS]

Kyrie shouldn't have played 43 minutes in game 1 coming off his injuries, period. Then when he goes down Blatt runs this 7 man rotation with a bunch of guys that aren't that good and aren't used to playing that many minutes. That defeats the entire purpose. The team got gassed in the 4th qtr of every single game and looked more and more gassed as the series when on (which impacted their effort on both ends) and it never occurred to him to try to give guys a little more rest throughout? And then there is the Mosgov rollercoaster. You have not chance beating GS at small ball with Kyrie out. Your only advantage at that point is size and you take it out? I could see not playing him with Tristan as much but to take out the only other guy that was consistently effective offensively when offense was your main issue in the series is .

 

[BreezyH]

stop it slime.

that doesnt mean shyt in 2015.

if you were already conceding the finals based on that then the smartest coaching move of all would've been sitting james for the series .

if the Eastern conf. was such a cakewalk, would've been a great opportunity to tinker with lineups in anticipation for what was going to be a brutal finals opponent no matter who it was.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

people were ready to file papers on barnes last year, festus came up big when few if any expected him to have significant moments. coaches find the glitches and exploit. blatt did a decent watch, but "well" is an outright falsehood and he was thoroughly outcoached in the money games

Again, once Kerr made the move to go small and bench Bogut, they won by 21, 13 and 8(which wasn't really that close, JR chucked up some desperation 3's).

What was this magic formula to get the Cavs to win this series? Love got his fukkin arm pulled out of its socket and Kyrie broke his kneecap. Getting the series to 6 with the best team in the NBA is about all you could have asked from him.