Cavs Coach Mike Brown Fired

[Ashy Larry]

man, if you win the coach of the year award, ya ass better put ya house on the market right after because you will be canned soon

[duhoh]

^^ puts your truck to use right? help em move?

[Killakobe81]

I think the coach of the year should stay as is. Otherwise we'd have Poppovich and Jackson going back and forth every year.

The COY is usually a coach of a team isn't expected to do a whole lot but they become a nice surprise usually by overachieving. Then the fans expect them to get even better the next few years and it just doesn't happen

Last 5 years it could of been: Phil, Pop, Doc, Pat or SVG

3 letter coaches need only apply ... LOL

[Killakobe81]

Seriously Mike Brown great defensive coach ...really ANY coach that can make guys LOOK better on defense than they actually are is good at that ...

Head coach ...nah?

He should be the Tom Thibeadoeux(?) to someone's Doc ...

He was a GREAT assitant pn Pop's staff ...

Offensively he is numbskull and cowtowed to Lebron too much ... especially late in big games.

[ducks]

so what great coach that james will listen to can the cavs get?

[picc84]

Whoever gave Brown the COY award should be fired.

[DesignatedT]

What a surprise..

[duncan228]

Cavs Interested in Phil Jackson, Coach K, and Several Other Unlikely Coaching Targets
SportingNews

Last night, the Cavs officially parted ways with head coach Mike Brown, leaving behind someone who had overseen the team’s rise to prominence in the East. It’s not enough that a team gets rid of a coach that has been to the NBA Finals, owns a Coach of the Year award, and guided them to consecutive 60-win seasons, but no one said that this summer would be a normal one for Cleveland.

So who will the team look to pick up to man the bench? Brian Windhorst lists a number of intriguing candidates, including supposed "dream candidates" Phil Jackson and Mike Krzyzewski and "more realistic big names" like John Calipari and Byron Scott. He even names a few sleepers like Jeff Van Gundy and Spurs assistant Mike Budenholzer.

Yet it remains unclear to me why anyone would take the Cavs job before LeBron James makes his free agent decision, especially if you’re a big name with multiple options. Obviously that applies to people in comfortable situations like Jackson and Coach K, but it could also be the case for lesser candidates like Scott, who carries some impressive name recognition even though he isn’t considered a top-tier candidate.

The fact of the matter is that the Cavs job is pretty terrible if James isn’t in town next season. Without him, the team’s best players are Antawn Jamison and Mo Williams, who are certainly solid players but by no means the guys you want heading up your attack. Plus, while there are many good role players on the roster, someone like Anderson Varejao becomes much less valuable without a superstar like James on the court.

If you take this job before James picks a team, you’re risking taking a job with an awful team and tarnishing your reputation forever. That might sound a bit apocalyptic, but the future of the Cavs looks that dire without LeBron. No one wants to captain a ship that’s already sinking.

[HarlemHeat37]

"Coach of the year" isn't really a meaningful award..ranking coaches is extremely stupid IMO..I'd say "good coach", "average coach", "bad coach", that's pretty much it..I don't believe in "great coaches", even the supposed "best" coaches like Pop and Jackson make stupid/questionable decisions that backfire all the time..

I also disagree that Scott Brooks is a good coach, his coaching in the playoffs was horrible IMO..his coaching in game 2 arguably cost them a game..

[m33p0]

[Allanon]

Curse of Coach of the Year. I think Pop's the only coach to have bucked the curse in the last 15 years or so.