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Just curious: Why is Lue always so rude to Vardon? He seems to have no patience with him at all.

I'm probably speaking heresy in here, but while I can see Vardon as being a little annoying and occasionally he makes a big deal out of dumb stuff, he does his job in pushing to get answers and I think his articles are generally fair. Unlike Haynes, he's also a competent writer.
 
Just curious: Why is Lue always so rude to Vardon? He seems to have no patience with him at all.

I'm probably speaking heresy in here, but while I can see Vardon as being a little annoying and occasionally he makes a big deal out of dumb stuff, he does his job in pushing to get answers and I think his articles are generally fair. Unlike Haynes, he's also a competent writer.


He's just messing with Vardon. I think he actually kind of likes him.

But it's like big brother picking on little brother.

It was hilarious the other day when Lue took the microphone from Allie Clifton and asked Joe a question with it. That was fantastic. I'll find the video and post it below when I have it.

http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/video/...1/01/1483247778619-161231-TLue-PostGM-1082074
 
He's just messing with Vardon. I think he actually kind of likes him.

I agree with this description. Last year, Lue got frustrated with Vardon on a few occasions. This year, lots of friendly little jabs. Some of the other beat writers (who seem to be friends as well) do the same thing with Vardon. I assume it's because he's the young guy, in terms of having the least sports experience. Leading to stuff like this, where Lloyd nudges both Plain Dealer guys.

View: https://twitter.com/JasonLloydABJ/status/816119504438784000
 
I agree with this description. Last year, Lue got frustrated with Vardon on a few occasions. This year, lots of friendly little jabs. Some of the other beat writers (who seem to be friends as well) do the same thing with Vardon. I assume it's because he's the young guy, in terms of having the least sports experience. Leading to stuff like this, where Lloyd nudges both Plain Dealer guys.

View: https://twitter.com/JasonLloydABJ/status/816119504438784000


Good stuff.

Also, Vardon has a particular style and seems to always be the first person to ask questions after the games. He's easy to needle, by Lue and by colleagues.

I do think it's all in good fun, though.

Lue's just a good dude. It's easy to see why so many people around the league like him. In fact, I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about him.
 
I didn't think I would ever write this...but Vardon is so much better this year on the Cavs beat than he was last year on the LeBron-specific beat. He's not great yet, but he tries his best to do the job. Already far better than Haynes; we'll see where things go.
 
I didn't think I would ever write this...but Vardon is so much better this year on the Cavs beat than he was last year on the LeBron-specific beat. He's not great yet, but he tries his best to do the job. Already far better than Haynes; we'll see where things go.


I was actually going to say the same thing.

It's like night and day. Really, he's gotten some good info this year.

Props to him.

Also on the "Lue messes around with Vardon" thing: Lue doesn't like to have reporters try to 'force' him to reveal things, like strategy/lineups/injuries. Vardon does this a lot. Lue knows the reporters have to try to do this, but he doesn't like it. And so he just messes around with them and backs them off when they do it.

He did the same thing to McMenamin last year in The Finals, I think. McMenamin was writing that Love wasn't being used at certain times, or something like that. So when Lue started one of his postgame press conferences, he said something like "I know Kevin Love didn't play in the 4th, Dave. You don't have to bring it up." Something like that. It was a mixture of comedy and annoyance.

I think this is his same general tone with Vardon. But it's meant in fun, like "I know you're going to ask this" type of stuff.
 
Great job tonight. Yeah it was against the Kings, but it was still good.


1. Shumpert starts ------------------> Goes 4-for-6 from three and breaks out of his slump.

2. Liggins as backup PG ------------> Changed his role but still kept him in the mix. Liggins only had 1 assist, but he also only had 1 turnover. Liggins' confidence seems to have dropped of late, and this allows him to regain it while under less pressure with the bench.

3. LeBron w/ 2nd Unit more -------> More time passing the ball to Korver, who found his way as a Cav tonight. Only downside here is LeBron played 42 minutes.

4. Korver with closing group -------> Not sure if he's done this before, but it's a good move. Opens up even more spacing for LeBron and Kyrie to drive.

5. Used 9-Man rotation -------------> Felder and McRae benched.


We had 27 assists tonight and just 12 turnovers. This is the first time in at least 8 games that we've broken the 20-assist barrier in a game.

Good job, coach!
 
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From McMenamin:

When the Cavs first agreed to the Korver deal, Lue immediately sent a text message to the sharpshooter.

“He texted me, and he was excited about pulling out his old Ray Allen plays,” Korver said of his new coach. “He’s got a ton of them. So it’s fun.”
 
I didn't think I would ever write this...but Vardon is so much better this year on the Cavs beat than he was last year on the LeBron-specific beat. He's not great yet, but he tries his best to do the job. Already far better than Haynes; we'll see where things go.
Doing "ok" this year doesn't make up for multiple seasons of TMZ level trash that hurt the Cavs. All that it means is that he's temporarily not a hack. He's got to put in at least one FULL season or non-gossip writing before he gets any respect from me.
 
Can't think of a game where Ty coached and managed a worse game than this.

Some absolutely braindead decisions. What the fuck was with having all three of TT, Frye and Love on the floor at the same time? Why the fuck was RJ guarding Kawhi? And Love wasn't fully fit. Why play him the entire 4th quarter? Why isn't one of the greatest shooters of all time in when we need a 3?

That was beyond horrible. It was frustrating and irritating to watch it!
 
Cavs certainly not playing championship ball, and haven't been for a while. This game never felt like the team took it seriously.
 
Welp, he did draw up the hammer play, which the cavs failed to run..

Playing love was a head scratcher given he was not 100%..
 
Biggest oddity to me was how much run he gave the line-up that blew our lead both times.

Happened in both the 2nd and 4th the same way. Line-up goes in, lead gets erased, Lue calls timeout, line-up stays in, we instantly go down by 6(maybe even 9 in the fourth...) within another minute or two. Then Lue finally makes a change.

Even if he was going to stick with throwing the line-up out there twice, no reason to watch it get dominated, call time-out, and then KEEP IT IN for a little bit more pain....TWICE...
 
Lue's been ass all year. He's become a complete amateur when it comes to managing LeBron's minutes and he sticks with rotations that fail time and again. Tonight's loss is 100% on him.

But I guess he'll forever get the "experimenting" card, which alleviates him of all wrongdoing.
 

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