Dave Blatt fired..

[Chillen]

Lue doesn't strike me as a very talented coach, they will play with the same system, so firing Blatt made zero sense. Even worse signing Lue immediately to a 3 year deal, so if they fire Lue, they will have to pay two coaches instead of one. A move like this could really hurt the Cavs, I don't think any opponent is gonna be afraid of little Lue on the sidelines. Blatt was a very intelligent coach, who knew the game well.

[Vokun]

The curse of Blatt is going to be a bitch.

[JoeTait75]

For me, personally, it makes me lose respect for him. It will affect my memory of him and his overall standing with the other NBA legends. If I'm starting a hypothetical franchise with any player in history, I'm taking Tim Duncan over Lebron James every time. :lol I might be a biased Spurs fan, but you could hardly argue that Tim is more coachable and easier to build around.

I was just going to say, it's easy for Spurs fans to talk because you have Tim Duncan, and Tim Duncan doesn't pull shit like this. Which is fine and good, but there is only one Tim Duncan. This is what you get when you have LeBron. Part of the deal. The only reason he didn't get Spoelstra fired in Miami was because he (and the rest of them) knew Riley would come down and replace Spoelstra, and they definitely didn't want that. This is what you get with LeBron. I'm not saying it's right or good, just that it is what it is.

I do feel Blatt is getting jerked around because he's taking a beating from the organization and from the local media, which isn't fair. He was in a tough spot to begin with because he wasn't hired to coach LeBron and Kevin Love- he was hired to coach Kyrie and Tristan Thompson and Andrew Wiggins and Dion Waiters. He was hired to shape a young team, not cater to superstars. This was a no-win situation for him right from the jump.

[Spurs9]

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That first vid :lmao :lmao

[UZER]

:lol Lebrons post game comments, "whatever coach wants, we do." Overcompensating trying to hide that fact the got Blatt fired.

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I was just going to say, it's easy for Spurs fans to talk because you have Tim Duncan, and Tim Duncan doesn't pull shit like this.

True,,,according to SF Tim just sat there and watched it burn to the ground.

[Killakobe81]

True,,,according to SF Tim just sat there and watched it burn to the ground.

That is the other side of the coin for being the most coachable star, 6 happens. No way does James let anyone sit him as 6 is happening. No one puts "baby" in the corner ...

[Killakobe81]

I was just going to say, it's easy for Spurs fans to talk because you have Tim Duncan, and Tim Duncan doesn't pull shit like this. Which is fine and good, but there is only one Tim Duncan. This is what you get when you have LeBron. Part of the deal. The only reason he didn't get Spoelstra fired in Miami was because he (and the rest of them) knew Riley would come down and replace Spoelstra, and they definitely didn't want that. This is what you get with LeBron. I'm not saying it's right or good, just that it is what it is.

I do feel Blatt is getting jerked around because he's taking a beating from the organization and from the local media, which isn't fair. He was in a tough spot to begin with because he wasn't hired to coach LeBron and Kevin Love- he was hired to coach Kyrie and Tristan Thompson and Andrew Wiggins and Dion Waiters. He was hired to shape a young team, not cater to superstars. This was a no-win situation for him right from the jump.

Great point James never blessed the hiring Blatt setup to fail

[djohn2oo8]

I'm surprised Cully actually wanted a white coach fired.

[gambit1990]

cavs sucked with blatt, will suck will lue. they're just fodder for whoever they have to face in the finals.

their roster is trash. they should trade irving. and damn near everyone else on that team other than lebron.

can't believe they signed lue to a three year deal :lol that puts them even more behind then they were already on pace to be.

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I'm surprised Cully actually wanted a white coach fired.

I didn't.

[DMC]

True,,,according to SF Tim just sat there and watched it burn to the ground.
That's too dramatic even for you. How can something burn to the ground yet ring the following season with basically the same players?

I suppose you don't have anything going for you so you need to create a more interesting story line than "Tim trusts his coach".

What burned to the ground was the "Heatles". When have you heard that since? Tim and company ran that shit off like dogs chasing a boogieman out of the swamps. And you, acting like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, you've done nothing about any of it except hold up scorecards.

Had that happened against your team, you would be parrotting the "Kobe grabbed jacks and timbers" mantra for the last two years.

[baseline bum]

:lol Lebrons post game comments, "whatever coach wants, we do." Overcompensating trying to hide that fact the got Blatt fired.

LOL no shit. Remember when Blatt wanted to run the Princeton offense and LeBron said fuck that, I want to play Mark Jackson iso-ball? I'm kind of sad we never got to see Cleveland try to run that offense. I figured LeBron was down to play in a system with lots of ball movement after getting raped by it in the 2014 Finals, but I guess it was LeBron just saying the things people wanted to hear.

[baseline bum]

I really thought Cleveland was going to be good when they went and hired a real coach instead of someone who'd be Byron Scott East and kiss LeBron's ass. But Blatt was in no position to stand up to LeBron's childish crap when James keeps signing one year deals.

[Arcadian]

there is only one Tim Duncan.

True...but there should be more people like him. More players should take after him as a role model. The league would be better for it.

[mingus]

It'd help if we got the real full story from both sides (players & Blatt). I'm not going to trust the accuracy of what anyone's said, whether ex-Cavs, current Cavs, Blatt or writers. They all have their own agenda.

What I can say is that Blatt never seemed to have the 100% backing of the GM & Gilbert. Through all the controversies of Blatt's tenure, I never heard them emphatically give them their support through the media. No statements or anything. Riley had Spoelstra's back, and Lebron knew he had to buy in.

Now, why they didn't have his back is the biggest question. Was it because they felt that doing so would go against Lebron's feelings toward him? Was it because Blatt, for all his success as a coach in Europe/Israel, just wasn't getting the job done from a tactical and/or player management standpoint? It could've been both. They're not mutually exclusive. If you ask me it was both. We know as pretty much fact that Lebron's ego has made it hard for his preceding coaches to manage him & the team (Brown & Spoelstra), he's a diva no doubt. But Blatt IMO was put in a tough spot where he didn't have the NBA rapport to manage an ego like that, whereas Spoelstra had Riles (and Wade) & Brown came from Pop's coaching tree, which helped them co-exist with Lebron.

In the end, Lebron is Lebron, he's been a coddled & groomed to be this way since he was 16 or younger. It's like a Lindsey Lohan or Kardashian or other child-star that almost invariably end up with a massive ego. Bottom line is it hasn't kept Bron from winning before, or from organizations building competent teams around him, or other organizations from building around similarity egotistical players (ie Kobe & Shaq). The Cavs ultimately picked Blatt to do a different job: to take over a young, developing team. But they had an opportunity to get Lebron back and they were basically stuck with him. Not sure the Cavs could've or should've done anything different at the time. Blatt was a smart hire when he was hired. Obviously getting Lebron back was a smart move.

Where the Cavs fucked up bad was trading Wiggins. From what I've seen he looks like a stud, haven't seen much tho tbh. Never been a huge KL fan

[spankadelphia]

Lebron has the same relationship with whitey that a borderline/psycho chick has with her boyfriend: "I hate you! Don't leave me!"

[DMC]

It'd help if we got the real full story from both sides (players & Blatt). I'm not going to trust the accuracy of what anyone's said, whether ex-Cavs, current Cavs, Blatt or writers. They all have their own agenda.

What I can say is that Blatt never seemed to have the 100% backing of the GM & Gilbert. Through all the controversies of Blatt's tenure, I never heard them emphatically give them their support through the media. No statements or anything. Riley had Spoelstra's back, and Lebron knew he had to buy in.

Now, why they didn't have his back is the biggest question. Was it because they felt that doing so would go against Lebron's feelings toward him? Was it because Blatt, for all his success as a coach in Europe/Israel, just wasn't getting the job done from a tactical and/or player management standpoint? It could've been both. They're not mutually exclusive. If you ask me it was both. We know as pretty much fact that Lebron's ego has made it hard for his preceding coaches to manage him & the team (Brown & Spoelstra), he's a diva no doubt. But Blatt IMO was put in a tough spot where he didn't have the NBA rapport to manage an ego like that, whereas Spoelstra had Riles (and Wade) & Brown came from Pop's coaching tree, which helped them co-exist with Lebron.

In the end, Lebron is Lebron, he's been a coddled & groomed to be this way since he was 16 or younger. It's like a Lindsey Lohan or Kardashian or other child-star that almost invariably end up with a massive ego. Bottom line is it hasn't kept Bron from winning before, or from organizations building competent teams around him, or other organizations from building around similarity egotistical players (ie Kobe & Shaq). The Cavs ultimately picked Blatt to do a different job: to take over a young, developing team. But they had an opportunity to get Lebron back and they were basically stuck with him. Not sure the Cavs could've or should've done anything different at the time. Blatt was a smart hire when he was hired. Obviously getting Lebron back was a smart move.

Where the Cavs fucked up bad was trading Wiggins. From what I've seen he looks like a stud, haven't seen much tho tbh. Never been a huge KL fan

Blatt was clueless for whatever reason. I could coach that team to that record in the East.

[Chillen]

They actually needed a coach like Thibs to right the ship, Lue is an unproven rookie coach. Lue understands the system and as an interim head coach would have been fine but immediately a 3 year deal is laughable. Thibs is the coach this Cavs team needed, he would have made sure they got better on the defensive end for sure. Firing Blatt was just a step forward briefly and now a step back by having Lue as the Cavs head coach for the next 3 years. Upgrading Thibs for Blatt would have made perfect sense. Blatt or Lue as the head coach, nothing is going to change with this Cavs team now.

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Blatt was clueless for whatever reason.

Probably upbringing. Dollars to donuts his parents are intact and of principle.

[DMC]

Probably upbringing. Dollars to donuts his parents are intact and of principle.
if so that definitely puts him on the outside.

[DMC]

They actually needed a coach like Thibs to right the ship, Lue is an unproven rookie coach. Lue understands the systeam and as an interim head coach would have been fine but immediately a 3 year deal is laughable. Thibs is the coach this Cavs team needed, he would have made sure they got better on the defensive end for sure. Firing Blatt was just a step forward briefly and now a step back by having Lue as the Cavs head coach for the next 3 years. Upgrading Thibs for Blatt would have made perfect sense. Blatt or Lue as the head coach, nothing is going to change with this Cavs team now.

It's really not an issue with coaching. It's an issue with ownership. When you give one player so much power over your franchise don't expect a second tier coach to come in and usurp that power easily.

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if so that definitely puts him on the outside.

His self esteem is assured. He refuses/ed to get into the mud & blood with these cretins. He knows better.

His parents? They done good.

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Damn LeBron is a cancer.

[AlexJones]

:lmao:lmao:rollin

[spursistan]

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:lmao GM 'Bron

[Chris]

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dayum gotheem :lol

[lefty]

:lol Bill

[HarlemHeat37]

Blatt didn't make a difference, tbh, it's the same team with the same flaws..

They're just a limited team with some off-court issues, apparently(Irving and Love)..

[spursistan]

Blatt didn't make a difference, tbh, it's the same team with the same flaws..

They're just a limited team with some off-court issues, apparently(Irving and Love)..
Toronto/Boston should have made a splash in the deadline..the Cavs looking extremely vulnerable (they are worse version of 2014 Heat team)..

[Spurs9]

Blatt didn't make a difference, tbh, it's the same team with the same flaws..

They're just a limited team with some off-court issues, apparently(Irving and Love)..
Almost had less issues before tbh

Now that Blatt is out of the way, the failing is Lebron, and I don't think he can deal with it :lol No one else to blame for him.

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Blatt didn't make a difference, tbh, it's the same team with the same flaws..

They're just a limited team with some off-court issues, apparently(Irving and Love)..

You know they (James/Irving) tried to do to Love what MJ & Pippen did to Kukoc. Use/Abuse him. Kukoc played along with it. Love has no such intention. And why would you:::there is no pay off like there was with the Bulls. The Cavaliers are wandering about in the winds. They don't know which end is up. They want it, but, have no desire to solve it, work for it and attain it. None.

James is confirming everything that Joe Public knew all along and that MSM has been hiding all along. He's a loser. In a winner circle. It happens.

[spursistan]

WINDHORST: LEBRON TIRED OF CARRYING TEAMLeBron James said the Cavaliers aren't playoff ready. As Brian Windhorst explained: "LeBron knows he's going to have to carry these guys in the postseason and I don't think he's real happy about it."

[HarlemHeat37]

Love gets way too much blame, though..

I don't know why people are afraid to put the blame on Kyrie:lol..he's a career loser that has never played defense in his life, and he's kind of a poor fit with Lebron, too..

As some of us here said at the time, they should have traded Irving while his stock was high, they could have gotten a serious package in return..

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WINDHORST: LEBRON TIRED OF CARRYING TEAM

LeBron James said the Cavaliers aren't playoff ready. As Brian Windhorst explained: "LeBron knows he's going to have to carry these guys in the postseason and I don't think he's real happy about it."

He ain't carried anything yet. Wade & Amy saved his fuckin' hash.

[spurraider21]

He ain't carried anything yet. Wade & Amy saved his fuckin' hash.
he has as many finals mvp's as your rapist

[DMC]

What good is James if he cannot carry a team? Last I heard, the "King" leads his people. The Chosen One carries the cross. It's not a shared burden.

[ambchang]

You know they (James/Irving) tried to do to Love what MJ & Pippen did to Kukoc. Use/Abuse him. Kukoc played along with it. Love has no such intention. And why would you:::there is no pay off like there was with the Bulls. The Cavaliers are wandering about in the winds. They don't know which end is up. They want it, but, have no desire to solve it, work for it and attain it. None.

James is confirming everything that Joe Public knew all along and that MSM has been hiding all along. He's a loser. In a winner circle. It happens.

Or Kobe to MVPau.

Only MVPau was the best player instead.

[MultiTroll]

Love gets way too much blame, though..

I don't know why people are afraid to put the blame on Kyrie:lol..he's a career loser that has never played defense in his life, and he's kind of a poor fit with Lebron, too..

As some of us here said at the time, they should have traded Irving while his stock was high, they could have gotten a serious package in return..
Not blaming Love, but for the price his expensive extension was not worth it.
Irving, agree trading him at his height could have been very good.

[dbreiden83080]

They fired Blatt because they had players on the team that just didn't like him. They gave it to What's his name, because he was more popular with the players. It's stupid and selfish but in todays game, when players whine they almost always get their way..

[Thebesteva]

This is so enjoyable to watch...hope it doesnt turn into a championship comeback story but if Lebron loses this year :lol

[hater]

As I said pre season. Nobody is beating the Cavs this year. No body

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As I said pre season. Nobody is beating the Cavs this year. No body

Don't be absurd, hate.

[dbreiden83080]

That 30-11 record when he was fired is absurd. A coach is fired when his team is on pace for 60 wins and made the finals last year??? Lebron demanded it, then ducked for cover. After he leaves again, this will all come out.

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That 30-11 record when he was fired is absurd. A coach is fired when his team is on pace for 60 wins and made the finals last year??? Lebron demanded it, then ducked for cover. After he leaves again, this will all come out.

deebs

[LakerHater]

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Damn. The great satan probably spread the gospel around the league. Sent him to exile tbh


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[K...]

What's a Darussafaka?



$2 million a year. He's worth more than that. Fuck lebron. With that karma warriors win in 5, three blowouts

[aussie91]

Will Blatt get another NBA head coaching job now I would have thought staying as a lead assistant would have been better for his long term chances.

[turkish spurs fan]

Will Blatt get another NBA head coaching job now I would have thought staying as a lead assistant would have been better for his long term chances.


haha darussafaka. they have total of 150 supporters in turkey but have good money. i like blatt coaching very much but without supporters, it's hard to be successful in euroleague.

he was the coach of anadolu efes years ago another no fan club. now i wonder which players he will bring here. for ex: mozgov ?

[spursistan]

Damn. The great satan probably spread the gospel around the league. Sent him to exile tbh


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Lebron ruined him....From NBA Finals to the fucking Turkish league :lol...that stuff leaked about his weak character and M.O is more damaging than any Xs and OS deficiency for a coach..He wouldn't even earn respect as an Assistant..

[K...]

. Sometimes it was Blatt, who was supposed to be setting the example himself, who was late. And on a January afternoon when the Cavs were practicing in Dallas, James got so fed up he tweeted about it, writing: "No RESPECT for time! #PetPeeve"

On one hand, this makes LeBron look petty, on the other it's pretty damning if he couldn't get to work on time.

[TDMVPDPOY]

what was his contract length when he sign with the cavs till he got fired? i think getting fired there is a condition if you want to get get paid the remainder of the length of contract/money, u cant coach another team in the nba, explains why alot of them dont coach and sit collect money or doing broadcasts ....

[K...]

what was his contract length when he sign with the cavs till he got fired? i think getting fired there is a condition if you want to get get paid the remainder of the length of contract/money, u cant coach another team in the nba, explains why alot of them dont coach and sit collect money or doing broadcasts ....

They can always waive and modify that. I'm sure he thought it through.

[spursistan]

:lmao Dan Gilbert
:lmao GM Lebron

wow if they don't pull a couple of games here..:lol

[tholdren]

Lebron ruined him....From NBA Finals to the fucking Turkish league :lol...that stuff leaked about his weak character and M.O is more damaging than any Xs and OS deficiency for a coach..He wouldn't even earn respect as an Assistant..
Blatt was 30-11 this season and 83-40 overall with the Cavs (http://www.foxsports.com/nba/cleveland-cavaliers-team). Cleveland went on to finish 27-14 under his replacement, Tyronn Lue, and will be back in the NBA Finals starting Thursday against the Golden State Warriors.

[Venti Quattro]

On one hand, this makes LeBron look petty, on the other it's pretty damning if he couldn't get to work on time.

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[tholdren]

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No respect for self = you have a twitter

[LakerHater]

Lue lookin like a crap ass coach!

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Lue lookin like a crap ass coach!

He's got 1 bullet & 12 chambers.

[midnightpulp]

He's got 1 bullet & 12 chambers.

Your Indians are looking absolutely sterling, Cub!

I your hometown breaks the drought this season. Indians going all the way.

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Your Indians are looking absolutely sterling, Cub!

I your hometown breaks the drought this season. Indians going all the way.

They ain't mine, Midst. I disavowed them many moons ago.

I'm just a hater now. Warms my soul.

[midnightpulp]

They ain't mine, Midst. I disavowed them many moons ago.

I'm just a hater now. Warms my soul.

Why? The Municipal was falling apart, Cub.

You don't think the Jake is nicer place to watch a ballgame?

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Why? The Municipal was falling apart, Cub.

You don't think the Jake is nicer place to watch a ballgame?

There was nothing wrong with that stadium. You can see the infield from the curb at this new one. No. I'll never step foot in there.

[HarlemHeat37]

:lmao Dave Blatt bumps :lmao

[DMC]

Right thing to to imo (again).