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Let it all out. The Cavaliers Rant Thread

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Luckily for us, the East blows.
Some team is going to punch us right in the mouth in the playoffs and I can't wait for it to happen.

I personally am tired of watching these entitled candyasses looking ahead and playing with minimal effort. We've played with fire all year not playing with a true big man and ramping LeBron's minutes up to absurd degrees.

Don't know where the confidence comes from honestly. A team that can't even manage a top-20 defensive ranking has no business being in contention discussion. Zero.
 
Oh and btw I could care less about the #1 seed... I'd like to go '95 Rockets in our pursuit of back to back--- slip a few spots down and enjoy the journey to the top... Will just be far more fun....
 
I still can't believe how often I get shit for saying Lue in't a good coach. Why is it blasphemous to say we basically won a championship off the super human effort of LeBron and the incredible offensive play of Kyrie? If the defensive scheme we currently have (none) is what our team has practised, some people need to get fired because it literally feels like jump shooters are wide open and no one goes for defensive boards. We have had some bad injury luck, but losing two in a row to Miami then to Detroit is plain embarrassing. Seeding doesn't matter to me, but if we're working to just make the playoffs and not give consistent effort until then, manage the player minutes... Otherwise we're getting 3rd seed while LeBron averages close to 40 a game. Fuck that.
 
Shouldn’t Longabardi have his own thread on here by now? I really don’t know what he’s contributing.
 
Shouldn’t Longabardi have his own thread on here by now? I really don’t know what he’s contributing.

I'm so old I remember when Ty Lue was solely responsible for the defense under Blatt, not Blatt.

Now Longbardi catches all the flack when the defense sucks under Lue.
 
One short rant, not about the Cavs but the refs. Did anyone else notice how they let Nene get away with throwing guys down, holding, and going over the backs of our players last night?
 
I'm so old I remember when Ty Lue was solely responsible for the defense under Blatt, not Blatt.

Now Longbardi catches all the flack when the defense sucks under Lue.

I'm so old i remember when Ty Lue was solely responsible for guarding Iverson when he dropped 48 points on the Lakers in the finals. He ought to be using the film as teachable moment this year to tell guys what not to do.

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Those braids doe
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It's damn enjoyable when the team actually plays hard enough for long enough to put a team away and doesn't just F around until the 4th and then put them away.

When this team plays both ends they are among the greatest teams to take the floor. Tonight they did it for like 16 straight minutes. and really all half for most intents and purposes.

It inspired hope in me at three times the rate their typical slack-ass middle quarter play breeds skepticism.
 
I'm so old I remember when Ty Lue was solely responsible for the defense under Blatt, not Blatt.

Now Longbardi catches all the flack when the defense sucks under Lue.

What's logically inconsistent about that? The defensive coordinator under Blatt was Lue so he got the praise/blame from certain posters for the defense. The defensive coordinator under Lue is Longabardi so he should get the praise/blame from those same posters.

And let's be real, most posters are blaming Lue for the defense, so Lue is catching most of the flack. And with good reason since he's the head coach and the buck ultimately stops there.
 
I understand criticizing Lue for this regular season. What I find unbelievable is when certain posters argue that Lue had nothing to do with the Cavs success in the playoffs last year (the "it was all LeBron and Kyrie" argument) and then those same posters praise Blatt endlessly for the 2015 playoff run. So does coaching matter or does it not? Be consistent.

In general, people underrate how much coaching goes into each playoff game and series. Blatt deserved more credit from people outside Cleveland for his playoff run. And Lue deserves more credit from Cleveland's own fans for last year's championship.

There was a ton of evidence of Lue's impact on the 2016 championship run. Since his hire Lue turned an offense that was efficient but predictable (and one that I always felt was dull) into one that was explosive and creative, and one that leveraged the Cavs shooting with great spacing. Right off the bat he found ways to involve Love that made him happy, even if in the aggregate Love's touches were more or less the same. In the first three rounds, the Cavs were breaking three point records seemingly every other game. Lue found a great bench unit and used it in creative ways with all sorts of variations on the Delly-LBJ pick and rolls. He drew up awesome out of bounds plays throughout the playoffs. He also wasn't afraid to play LeBron at the four for long stretches. He wasn't afraid to bench Mozgov when it became clear he was a shell of himself. He wasn't afraid to bench Frye in the Finals when it became clear he couldn't hang with the Warriors or to bench Delly when he was no longer able to contribute (even though both Frye and Delly were huge parts of the bench lineups that the Cavs discovered in the previous rounds). He got the most out of Richard Jefferson, starting him unexpectedly and using his ability to switch effectively. And yet when it was game 7, Lue went back to Kevin Love despite the mediocre series he had to that point, and we all know how big Love was on the glass in that game. He used veterans like Dahntay Jones and Mo Williams at just the right times. He relentlessly exploited the Warriors over-reliance on switching and exposed the two time reigning mvp by targeting Steph in pick and rolls over and over again. He figured out a way to slow down the lethal offense of a 73-9 Warriors team which was far more explosive than the 2015 Warriors's offense.

tldr - Ty Lue outcoached Steve Kerr in the NBA Finals, and along the way outcoached Budenholzer, Casey, and Stan Van Gundy too. And yet people are still gonna say the man had no impact on that championship run? Please.
 
Tonight is what we will see effort wise come playoff time...with Love and Korver
 
So does coaching matter or does it not? Be consistent.
That's true, but the pro-Lue people also tend to forget that he had a healthy squad at his disposal while Blatt didn't; that can't go understated. The Cavs were a juggernaut in the latter-half of 2015 and I wholeheartedly believe we'd have beaten the Warriors in no more than 6 games fully intact.

And while we're currently a better offensive team, we're much worse defensively than we were under Blatt.

I can't say that Griffin made the wrong decision. I was never really even a Blatt fan. But I can say that some perspective tends to get lost in these discussions.
 
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