The problem I have with the David Blatt Firing

[BamdaDon]

Yet Lue is the cure all? And LeBron didn't feel any less convinced now than he did last year about Blatt yet he chose now to pull the plug. I don't think when Cleveland fails to win it'll be specifically because they fired Blatt. Blatt's just a symptom of what happens when you bend over for someone who doesn't have all the answers and doesn't get paid to give those answers

I didn't say lue was a good coach he has his shot to prove himself. Hell Saturday if he wins nikkas gone say lue was a better choice . But I will say the last two games have the cavs playing a different type of basketball and the rotations are different and better.

What I am saying is Blatt is not great at coaching and I point out the finals as my proof. Great coaches are made during big games /series and I'm seeing Blatt fukk that up because he sucks at adjustments and rotations . The warriors and spurs are the teams to beat and he basically got out coached everytime. So yeah it's time to go. I look at all the games where he could have made his impact and he failed to do so. Last season cavs split with warriors and spurs in the regular season. But look at the finals and you can see dude just got out coached he did it in the match ups this year too vs the spurs and warriors. I honestly feel they gave him a shot to see what he could do and he fukked up. Cavs could have one in both San Antonio and golden state they had leads in both of those games. But just got out coached. The finals in hindsight is just how the fukk do you go to overtime 2 times in a row. Win the third game, take home court and have the other team changing thier game plan to beat you.

Then once you see they are smashing you, you make NO changes and just get stomped three games in a row and nikkas capping for this dude I just don't get it. He already proved he can't get you over the top so

 

[NYC Rebel]

Yet Lue is the cure all? And LeBron didn't feel any less convinced now than he did last year about Blatt yet he chose now to pull the plug. I don't think when Cleveland fails to win it'll be specifically because they fired Blatt. Blatt's just a symptom of what happens when you bend over for someone who doesn't have all the answers and doesn't get paid to give those answers

Blatt was hired as a green rebuilding organization coach before Lebron was signed. Bron changed the entire structure of the organization into a win now team. Blatt isn't built for that.

 

[Biscayne]

Guess there is no correlation there huh? Going to game 6 of the Finals in your first year with a squad that was in the lottery they year before while missing your 2nd and 3rd options isn't worthy of a pass? If that's the case, it's a whole lotta superstars and stars that should have been roasted last year. I mean, there are limits to stupidity even for the media. The fact remains that they were still expected to win going into last year and going into this year as well. The last year you can say their weren't championship expectations for a squad with Bron on it was 2007. People keep trying to ratchet it up because they are in their feelings and want everybody else to have the same level of anal discomfort towards him as they do but you can't really get much higher on the pressure scale than the level he's been at for years.

I'm not saying he didn't deserve that pass. But last year was a buffer. After "The Letter", and the Homecoming event he held for the kids, and Cleveland going 6games against an all-time great team in The Finals, he got a pass. Going into that Finals series no one thought Cleveland would win, and the pressure wasn't on LBJ to win wasn't anywhere near Miami levels in which they expected Miami to win every year, no excuses. Going into The Finals vs GS, who last year thought Cleveland had to win it? Who proclaimed win-or-bust? Everyone including LBJ knew GS was the better/healthier team. The way things are going now, this year might be a return back to the Miami levels of pressure. The media's even getting chippy with him again, and David Blatt's become the media darling that everyone feels sorry for. Last year LBJ was commended and given props for following his heart by going back to Cleveland and for basically curving Riley. I bet you those are probably the same folks who are now like "LBJ needs a Riley to hold him accountable for playing lazy", "He has too much power". Fact of the matter is, last year he only had Heat fans really hating him, while everyone kinda encamped themselves around him. This year, he has all of Israel hating him, while the organization is feeling the pressure from GS.

 

[FTBS]

I'm not saying he didn't deserve that pass. But last year was a buffer. After "The Letter", and the Homecoming event he held for the kids, and Cleveland going 6games against an all-time great team in The Finals, he got a pass. Going into that Finals series no one thought Cleveland would win, and the pressure wasn't on LBJ to win wasn't anywhere near Miami levels in which they expected Miami to win every year, no excuses. Going into The Finals vs GS, who last year thought Cleveland had to win it? Who proclaimed win-or-bust? Everyone including LBJ knew GS was the better/healthier team. The way things are going now, this year might be a return back to the Miami levels of pressure. The media's even getting chippy with him again, and David Blatt's become the media darling that everyone feels sorry for. Last year LBJ was commended and given props for following his heart by going back to Cleveland and for basically curving Riley. I bet you those are probably the same folks who are now like "LBJ needs a Riley to hold him accountable for playing lazy", "He has too much power". Fact of the matter is, last year he only had Heat fans really hating him, while everyone kinda encamped themselves around him. This year, he has all of Israel hating him, while the organization is feeling the pressure from GS.

Last year was him playing the media and casuals like a fiddle. There were still championship expectations though. A player of his caliber will always have those. The pressure will never will never return to pre-12 levels because he actually has rings now. If there was no pressure on him to win then Blatt would still be coaching, Wiggins would still be there and he'd be on his Wade " I got mine" shyt.

 

[Victim of Racism]

Did any coaches cape like this for Mark Jackson when he was relieved of his duties in Golden State?

 

[Victim of Racism]

Says the most shyt poster here. Tell us more about how everyone has it all wrong about Love because he's a solid defender.

 

[Victim of Racism]

Stop blaming basically a brand new coach when all he did was bring you to the finals and let them have one of the top records in the league.

Maybe the blame should be on the bumass organization and loser of a leader instead?

Dude tries to passive-aggressively shyt on every coach he gets. So far he's 2-2 for getting a coach fired while leading the Eastern Conference with another hand picked superteam

So, the "brand new coach" is the reason for their success and 1 of the best players in the league and the organization that put together one of the most talented rosters in the league is the reason for their few failures. Got it.

 

[Victim of Racism]

Again..LeBron took Blatt to the Finals...not the other way around ...

How you can think different is incomprehensible.

Don't forget about Lue. We all saw Lue coach that team, especially in the most important area, defense.

 

[Victim of Racism]

Who are you tagging, your boyfriend for backup

 

[Victim of Racism]

If that's the case then Lebron also lost the finals and got blown the fukk out against GS last week as well.

Giving him all the credit for success but no responsibility for failure.

Lebron has also had a "Big 3" superteam in the eastern conference for the last 7 years as well... Should we continue?

You prove @MGM's point when you say the bolded. And we know you don't lose to that team by 5 in their building and then get 40-pieced in your own building, where you have lost very few games, unless you threw the game to have an excuse to fire your incompetent coach who called time outs that he didn't have.

 

[Victim of Racism]

The thing is do they try to keep this coach and have their superstar go against him (Bron was on his bullshyt with those clips in that other thread) and potentially walk? Or let go of the person who was brought in to groom young players anyway? You could have the most talented team in the league but if they as a whole or the on court leader doesn't respect him that's a tough spot.



I agree with these

While Jackson did a good job turning them around, Warriors were 6th in their conference and lost in the 2nd and 1st round the years he was there. Not quite the same.

It is the same because the Cavs are a stacked roster. Jackson isn't given the credit he deserves for how well he developed them. He made them elite. Kerr did not. Kerr inherited and elite team that didn't have to play anyone in the playoffs. Klay couldn't even play defense before Jackson. Jackson got them to beat stacked teams in their own buildings (the Miami Heat's big 3) by developing their backcourt into the Splash Brothers and improving their defense tremendously. The league sent the refs to help the Clipps beat the Warriors because of Sterling's prejudice. The Warriors were coming, with or without Kerr.

 

[Victim of Racism]

Mark Jackson wasn't fired mid season and after reaching THE FINALS. I'm someone who believes GS did him dirty, but had he gotten to the finals and then started 30-11 the season after? He'd still be there. They thought MJaX was underachieving so they canned him. Which I disagree with.

Also, there's no talk about how improved the East is this year? And they were still 30-11

Just as Griffin said they were 30-11 with an easy schedule, the GSW's got to the Finals without having to play anyone. The East isn't improved enough to challenge the most talented team in the Association. The East isn't even as good as the West has been in recent years. The Cavs are head and shoulders above every team in the East. It's not close. Mark was fired either because of personal problems with the Front Office (like Thibbs) or to put Afrikans back in "our place" when a Euro lost his team for hating Afrikans.

 

[Victim of Racism]

Who caped for Kevin McHale? He made a deeper playoff run than Mark Jackson and was fired 11 games into the season.

Warriors greatly improved under Kerr and became champs. Rockets are not any better than they were under McHale but some posters just can't help themselves and gotta make everything about race.

Everyone:

Breen even said it was Harden's trash defense that hurt the Rockets and not Mchale, even though they won plenty of games with Harden's awful defense. McHale had plenty of time with that stacked roster to win and he didn't. Mark got a weak roster and turned them into contenders.

No, the GSW's did not "greatly improve" under Kerr. Kerr inherited a roster that Mark greatly improved and they didn't have to play anyone in the playoffs. Jackson isn't given the credit he deserves for how well he developed them. Klay couldn't even play defense before Jackson. Jackson got them to beat stacked teams in their own buildings (the Miami Heat's big 3) by developing their backcourt into the Splash Brothers and improving their defense tremendously. The league sent the refs to help the Clipps beat the Warriors because of Sterling's prejudice. The Warriors were coming, with or without Kerr.

 

[Victim of Racism]

It's not a new trend, Magic, Jordan, Kobe etc have all contributed to coaches getting fired so why is there a narrative that Bron is doing something that has never been seen before? People credited Bron with everything to do with the success of the team and labeled Blatt a puppet, so why is there so much consternation that a supposed puppet has been fired?

Because his replacement is brown-skinned.

 

[Victim of Racism]

You didn't answer the question but instead deflected. No one mentioned race beside you.

Shows how obvious the reason for the outrage is that Blatt's replacement is brown-skinned.