Report: Tyronn Lue told Lebron to STFU in huddle

[Floyd Pinkerton]

:letroll:

 

[calh45]

How about Magic in Los Angeles?

If your coach/management is incompetent, I've got no problem with players calling them out, punking them, or essentially getting rid of them. Blatt was incompetent, was LeBron supposed to bow down to him just because? It's Bron's legacy that's on the line anyway, not Blatt's. He's the one who's going to get shytted on when things don't go right.

Magic crossed Westphal and it didn't work. He didn't cross Riley. That's who he won with.

If you're in the huddle and you're trying to talk when the coach is trying to talk then the coach has the right to tell you to shut the fukk up. I don't see it as a put him in his place moment. That's how the dynamic is supposed to work in that moment. Bron can have as much power as he wants in the organization but on the court the coach has to be that dude for the team to function right.

When Lue first got hired I was concerned he was gonna get overpowered like Blatt did, but he clearly got the ship in the right direction. They blowing the East out the water. I salute ole boy.

 

[Greenstrings]

Suddenly it's Blatt's fault that Bron didn't wanna at least meet him halfway to run his offense?

Well... yeah

Why is Lebron obliged to take that chance having lead teams to the finals 4 years straight, if a first time NBA coach couldn't convince him?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Well... yeah

Why is Lebron obliged to take that chance having lead teams to the finals 4 years straight, if a first time NBA coach couldn't convince him?

He led them to the Finals without Love and a hobbled Kyrie, and pushed the Warriors to six games with a makeshift team in his first season as coach (more impressive than what Lue is currently doing) - that's not convincing enough?



LeBron never gave him a proper chance to begin with. His decision was probably made before he even set foot back in Cleveland.

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

not the first time bron was checked by a coach. after bron bumped him, spo told bron if he ever did that again he'd have no choice but to give him the hands. espn mics caught it.

 

[loyola llothta]

bullshyt stories. just sound like cacs and c00ns heard about the billion dollar nike deal

 

[calh45]

not the first time bron was checked by a coach. after bron bumped him, spo told bron if he ever did that again he'd have no choice but to give him the hands. espn mics caught it.

I'm gonna have to call receipts on this one.

 

[Gyasi85]

Breh I saw this shyt coming a million miles away. When lue was hired it was cause he was Lebron's boy and he hand picked him. The media and some fans screamed that Lue didn't know what he was doing and the players were running the team.

Now the Cavs and Lue are possibly on one of the greatest runs of all time in the playoffs.....the media switches the narrative that somehow is a hard nose that runs a boot camp and made all the players do what they are suppose to do.

Also this shyt really works on my nerves in sports. Black coaches are almost never and I mean never commented on their intelligence and game plan. It is always that their calmness (think Dungy) or being a tough disciplinarian is what makes the team play well.

You look at shyt all the time how in basketball or football the black coach is called to either mellow out the team or whip them in shape. But the white coach is called in for the Xs and Os and game planning.

In saying all of this....the reason the Cavs are winning ain't about lue calling out Lebron or some players. This man has out coached ever coach he has faced so far in the playoffs. His offensive sets have been up there with the warriors. The way that he has substituted is 10 times better than Blatt. The sets he is running with love, Lebron and the second unit is on some popvich level.

Not to mention him being smart enough to have the players increase pace and get them ready to run more during the season. Or how about the adjustments he has made each qrt during these playoffs.

But hey the media ain't gonna give a black coach props for his intelligence. We just gonna use the old clichés that he is hard as nails and won't let the uppity players run the asylum.

 

[Gyasi85]

Also once again (which the Cavs fans on here can back me up on this shyt) I called all this shyt when Blatt was fired. I told kats lue was being groomed and he would have this team playing well in the playoffs.

NBA history shows that assistant coaches come out of no where and lead teams to championships all the time.

But that firing of Blatt was all about gilberts cavs payroll...his 100 million dollar PF being under utilized and the pressure that the team had to succeed. I know the media will never say this shyt was about love and Blatt cause a white player getting white coach fired ain't gonna get no clicks.

 

[Greenstrings]

He led them to the Finals without Love and a hobbled Kyrie, and pushed the Warriors to six games with a makeshift team in his first season as coach (more impressive than what Lue is currently doing) - that's not convincing enough?



LeBron never gave him a proper chance to begin with. His decision was probably made before he even set foot back in Cleveland.

It's clear that Lebron had already marginalised Blatt by that point but I don't see why Lebron's rationale in doing so isn't understandable given what the stakes are for him.

He's at the tail end of his prime with only a few years of high level play left and frankly his personal legacy is bigger than that of the organisation. He's painfully aware of this, hence the urgency and moodiness he's exhibited these past few seasons.

If he'd taken that chance and given Blatt a foothold, had things went awry or fell apart it would be incredibly hard for him to procure a change of course (at least in a way that wasn't fractious or destructive). He hung Blatt out to dry because he felt he needed that flexibility and while those are difficult circumstances to work under, Lebron was justified in feeling that way plus Blatt wasn't savvy to understand where Lebron was coming from and use that to his advantage.

Blatt deserves credit for the defensive schemes that allowed them to punch so far above their weight in the playoffs last year but the idea that he was the leader of that team is laughable. Most of the reason they were able to do what they did last year was Lebron so why would Lebron then find Blatt's performance under those circumstances compelling?

 

[Originalman]

Truth brotha. Look no further than the QB dynamic in the NFL and how it plays out in the media with a white coach and white QB and a black QB and white coach.

 

[Gyasi85]

They won't stop with the Marc Jackson hate..Boston Cac Bob Ryan got himself suspended for 2 weeks slandering this nikka for no reason... Marc turned the Warriors around in 1 year...but had his own assistants sabotaging him behind the scenes.....his owner throwing shade in public at games.. ..and now he Stupid cuz he dun run the same sets Kerr do.... But Kerr back fold up like a lawn chair...and Luke ain't miss a beat... The Fake Hebrew Ofay get fired...and Israel had the Mossad lookin for Bron.. The media had the Pistons taking them to 6...and Miami knocking them clean out the BOX... ...They ran scrimmage with the Hawks.... now they 9 - 0... .They gun Trash Blatt like they did Marc ? Can nikkas spot the double standard ? Now you notice ever since the Cavs started they playoff run...the media dun switched up the narrative...NOT a PEEP about Lue and his adjustments...or his "X & O's.....but they gun Crown Donovan the next PoP...if OKC win Game 2

 

[Weaver31]

Respect.

It's respeck niqqa. Put some respeck on Lue's name.

 

[Originalman]

It's clear that Lebron had already marginalised Blatt by that point but I don't see why Lebron's rationale in doing so isn't understandable given what the stakes are for him.

He's at the tail end of his prime with only a few years of high level play left and frankly his personal legacy is bigger than that of the organisation. He's painfully aware of this, hence the urgency and moodiness he's exhibited these past few seasons.

If he'd taken that chance and given Blatt a foothold, had things went awry or fell apart it would be incredibly hard for him to procure a change of course (at least in a way that wasn't fractious or destructive). He hung Blatt out to dry because he felt he needed that flexibility and while those are difficult circumstances to work under, Lebron was justified in feeling that way plus Blatt wasn't savvy to understand where Lebron was coming from and use that to his advantage.

Blatt deserves credit for the defensive schemes that allowed them to punch so far above their weight in the playoffs last year but the idea that he was the leader of that team is laughable. Most of the reason they were able to do what they did last year was Lebron so why would Lebron then find Blatt's performance under those circumstances compelling?

Homie the word was that Lue was the one that suggested to blatt the defensive adjustments. Blatt was nothing more than dan reeves to Lue's Mike Shannahan during the Elways run. Like reeves Blatt was close but no cigar.

In the end it was the owners decision just like when Collins got canned for Jackson in Chicago. Or when Jackson got canned for Kerr. Folks need to stop capping for blatt he ain't the first to get canned and won't be the last.

 

[Theodoresolderbreh]

Raise your sons brehs.