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in the surprise move the Cleveland Cavaliers have fired head coach Friday
while there have been rumblings about his style and we had seen evidence of
the Franz disrespect toward his coach he'd seen my fair competitive this in
the finals and their performance so far this season
meant they were on the right track no coach until now had ever been fired
while his team had the best record in the conference and their rankings on
both offense and defense were among that's the pressure to win a title has
been weighing the franchise down since the Bronze we made his decision to
return to Cleveland at the various reports are to be believed and in
hindsight they certainly hold creating with meet the beginning of the end
happened when coach black changes rotations for the first Warriors game on
Christmas Day
up until that point Richard Jefferson had averaged over 22 minutes a game ball
more willing for over 27 because coach Brad wanted more details he went with
Della Vedova and Shumpert instead went didn't let Jefferson going to know
before
of course to capture right there in 20 late run in the fourth one for the
Warriors in a tough defensive-minded battle again if what has been reported
is to be believed then to veterans brought in for their leadership
complaining about the rotation for one game is the ultimate in nine
professionalism in the next game versus the Portland Trail Blazers it is now
being reported that the Cavs in response to coach last change in the lineup is
essentially boycotted the game while this is insanely difficult to prove I
did find some interesting place centering around LeBron James effort in
this game as it quickly got out of hand in favor of the Blazers mind you it's
easy to see conspiracy all you're doing is looking for 10 without question the
Bronx spend a lot of the game
disconnected from the action rarely in his stance content to walk around on the
court with half-hearted attempts to go after the ball and he's got a lot of
time simply walking around away from the action not actively engaged in making
plays in its only notable because the guy who routinely makes plays from all
angles all over the court when he wants to do he's that good he gets himself way
too high on this page then jobs back into the action while the Blazers attack
off the roll man and get it done again is a boycott or simply the broad begun
focus enough to allow all fruit immediate to blow by him like watch it
again there is no pick-and-roll coverage I know that would have the wrong man
jumped to his left to force middle like this and as this game started to fall
apart he talks shit behind the back pass out of a double team in the post to a
player whose tightly guarded hardly the kind of valuable possession we expect
from him and after this wild shot watch what he does in transition on defense
walks away as the man he supposed to pick up lines up a wide-open 3 and if
you listen to assist you can hear that the coaching staff seems well aware of
this effort issue in the first half without effort
stuff to do so this personal matters
said today
and it's safe to say the cats understand that they're not a team that can compete
with either the spurs or the Warriors while they let the Spurs for much of
their matchup back on the 14th it became apparent there were too many holes
defensively for the Cavaliers to sustain the lead in one game much less a
seven-game series the Tony Parker in full strength involving Kyrene Kevin
Love in pick-and-rolls is just death for the Cavs defense and Kyra is constant
reaching it is completely ineffective allowing harder to get to the rim at
will
helping defensively either i think is another screen Iran Kyrie in his effort
to stay with coop the Brawn again gets caught flat footed allowing you catch
and drive blow by the Kauai which compromises the whole defense of course
coach class decision to play loving center against Duncan was ill-conceived
especially since doubling him was not part of the game plan either hard to
fathom they wouldn't try to get some help down there against the old man
first knew that screaming with loves man especially if it's Duncan would generate
scores at the ramen open shots on the perimeter as well making love a big
culprit in this game
Ron simply does not match up well with Kawhi Leonard who continue to burn him
off the dribble and score at the rim as well as get right to the rim on this
trip to seal the game in the Bronx in box out
often sadly the bronze seems to fall back to beasley's isolations against
perceived advantages in matchups against the Spurs defence he's just playing into
their hands when the ball stops like this is normal shots become that much
harder when the first rotations are still pristine and effective and the
Spurs have the ultimate LeBron James stopper in Hawaii leonard there is no
one that can house up on into Mrs like this and so completely take him out of
his comfort zone to the point where is probably eclipse LeBron as a Blair now
let's meet the Warriors game if that's what you'd call a complete annihilation
from the start is more like it and apparently this was the game that sealed
coastal flats but if the argument is that the Cavaliers needed a change
because they wouldn't be able to beat the Warriors we should look at the
specific reasons why they couldn't do they had anything to do with Coach blatt
his coaching style and his offensive and defensive philosophies or were there
other fundamental issues beyond his control what other situation would you
ever find yourself in when you get hired for the job then you're told the guy who
beat out will not only few years will be the highest paid assistant in the
history of your profession
against the wall Bumi you need supreme effort I'm deepens the entire position
does this look like the kind of effort that will get a John against a team like
the war years everyone hits hit by flair screen but again I'm watching for effort
and awareness which is lacking here on this role abroad disengages from his
bumped down to about a lead on the same type of play for Blonde decides to
harbor in no-man's land doing nothing neither stopping the ball nor sticking
to his man one pass away and got about play the Broncos low man on defenceman
should have rotated to help but doesn't realize what's happening to a jew late I
rejoice in with poor effort to sprint back then does that region thing again
allowing away too easy look from 10 feet the broad completely falls asleep and is
now and has the audacity to call for us which
this allows a simple back to look up with a layup for some reason and I
suspect it's not related to anything close to that wants to do offensive Lee
ISO bully ball with a brand new post for the stagnant off ends allows the defense
to overloading pester him into bad plays of course we had biznews even kevin says
he's running around out there out of position while the Warriors are the
dunking and golden state will continue to pick on Kevin Love in the bigger role
until the Cavaliers either pension or figure out some secret way to stop these
sites and shots Kyrie Irving has yet to master improper off all positioning with
an intensity to stop a player like Steph Curry and his impeccable cutting a broad
gets back into the act of the gamble that wholesome way out of position and
he closed out he could have delayed this past a split second longer for James
Jones to more effectively contested shot and often sadly the broad can't let any
opportunities go by the wayside instead of walking down court he could be
attacking the offensive glass to make a play it's not to say we didn't see the
LeBron ISO post up work as it does here when Mozgov makes a nice base line coach
again open but it's not a viable strategy in the long term when they do
things can load up as well as they do we saw in the finals and we saw it here
when the ride starts doing this thing it plays right into the Warriors hands and
the last thing you want to do
easy transition so there you have it boards then I get it if something's not
working it's not working it's time to make a change but if you want to accept
the premise that they had to make a change because they couldn't be his
person warriors then consider what we just showed you that type of effort
reflected in coach black inability to get through to his players or was it the
players steadfastly refusing to be professional and accept the kind of
coaching the truly need to improve as a team coach flat make mistakes
sure you try calling a timeout they didn't have that almost cost them a
playoff game and that it was thrown under the bus for trying to call a
game-winning out of bounds play that had the Brawn inbounding the ball even
though james was an atrocious 9429 in over 6 from 3 at that point and it's
been reported that he wouldn't point out mistakes by the big three in their film
sessions for fear of angering his stars but we also know that the office he
brought women
a beautiful movement and spacing on par with the spurs and warriors actions was
rejected out of hand without allowing it time for the players to become
comfortable with it
say what you want about rotations and communicative skills one thing you could
always say about his team's in the past was that they were professional in their
approach to the game and play as hard as they possibly could
let's be the team that's the hardest to play the hardest to beat Kate doesn't
ever lived up there doesn't ever give up the fight this was not the case with the
Cleveland Cavaliers team from the get-go and I fear the Cavaliers from top to
bottom
never gave him that chance