John-Blair Bickerstaff: Currently The 6th Longest Tenured Head Coach

[foucault87]

I'd rather swing on a new giy than get retreads. With the exceptions of Bud and Atkinson, none of the experienced guys are available. Stotts is okay I guess? What I really dont want is chasing the college pool with Cal or idk Brown

 

[Kouki]

How does Mike Brown like California? Third time's the charm...

 

[Goldin Brown]

If the Clippers flame out in the playoffs, Ty Lue might become available, wouldn't mind bringing him back. Otherwise, Fernandez and Atkinson seem like two of the top guys available, would be happy with either one honestly.

 

[Thelastcavsfan]

I know we’re heated , but I am appreciative of the hard work Bickerstaff has put in these years. Him and stefanski to me were both pretty average years ago and Kevin got better. Unfortunately just haven’t seen the improvement

 

[Goldin Brown]

Nuggets top assistant David Adelman might get some buzz too, son of Rick Adelman. That coaching staff will probably get poached, Ryan Saunders might be another name that could get a look.

 

[Cassity14]

I had an incredibly vivid dream last night that news broke of JB's unexpected firing. That dream included Ben posting it on here, the news breaking publicly, seeing memes on Reddit from every other fanbase laughing at us for firing our coach right before the playoffs, the whole 9 yards. I was absolutely devastated when it wasn't real.

 

[MikeOC33]

Not to be devil's advocate, but with as much sentiment and hope that JB is fired is shown on this forum....what if?

What if they win just 1st round, and because of the all the seasonal injuries, and still with the youth potential....what if he is not fired?

Not to doubt the talk that he's lost the locker room, but what if upper management/ownership want to stay the course?

Him being let go is not a done deal, and there was certainly enough ammunition to let him go after last season, and they didn't.

I'll believe it when it happens, but for right now, I want the team to win and keep winning, even if that means JB is still here next year. The Cavs do not have some huge window of opportunity, and every wasted year is just that, and the window gets smaller.

 

[Sir'Dom Pointer]

Gotta admit, to coach a back to back game in a dry desert, on a Wednesday, in a completely different time zone with temperatures reportedly soaring upwards to 188 degrees and to be able to keep his team not only hydrated, but to not have any person on his staff die from a heat stroke is mighty impressive…

Was just seven 3’s away from taking it to the 5th quarter… And keep in mind he was down Ty Jerome in this one..

He’s more than our coach… He’s becoming the standard…

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That’s your best trolling post ever.

 

[KevinLoveFan]

That’s your best trolling post ever.

He's on a roll...I think his recent Donovan Mitchell post was #1

 

[jhernjh]

JBB does have a lot of potential because he can get wins when a lot of injuries arise. But when guys get healthy, he is hell bent on making Mobley the backup center, even if it hurts the team.

Note to JBB, the Nuggets won their championship rings last year with DeAndre Jordan as their backup center. TT should be getting some minutes with Morris. The Cavs have size in the 2nd unit, but rarely get used together unless injuries happen.

 

[Marcus]

Not to be devil's advocate, but with as much sentiment and hope that JB is fired is shown on this forum....what if?

What if they win just 1st round, and because of the all the seasonal injuries, and still with the youth potential....what if he is not fired?

Not to doubt the talk that he's lost the locker room, but what if upper management/ownership want to stay the course?

Him being let go is not a done deal, and there was certainly enough ammunition to let him go after last season, and they didn't.

I'll believe it when it happens, but for right now, I want the team to win and keep winning, even if that means JB is still here next year. The Cavs do not have some huge window of opportunity, and every wasted year is just that, and the window gets smaller.

The bolded statement does not jive with the rest of your (not to be devil’s advocate, but also kinda sorta being devil’s advocate ) post.

Every day with JBB still coaching this team after April 27th of last year - hoping that he is a tiger that is somehow going to change his stripes as he continues to prove time and time again that he is not - is a wasted day for this franchise.

Simply making the playoffs - heck, even winning a first round series (something that JBB has yet to show he is capable of in eight years as a head coach) - can’t possibly be considered a successful season for a team that gave up quite a bit for Donovan Mitchell with a free agency decision looming that will alter the course of this franchise until at least the end of the decade.

Just being happy to be there stopped being the standard for success the minute they traded for Mitchell.

The bar can and should be higher. If it’s not, then shame on Koby for extending JBB in the first place, and then doubling down after last spring’s first round embarrassment.

 

[Sharpner]

Since it seems pretty much inevitable that JB is gone, do the Cavs fully swing the other way and full D'Antoni like hire and forget about defense to overcompensate?

I'm basically done talking about Bickerstaff, it's just too much at this point.

 

[PIP]

You waltz into LA and coach a 12:30pm game and manage to take it all the way to the wire like this…

We should have lost this by 50….

But we didn’t….

 

[kookoo]

JBB? More like ED because this team is both soft and under performing when things get hot and heavy.

 

[eChameleon]

BB will hopefully soon stand for BYE BYE.