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

[MattyIce8]

Fully preparing myself for Gilbert to hire JJ Reddick as the next head coach as a “splashy” hire.

 

[PIP]

Luke Walton
Doc Rivers

 

[bushwick_bill]

lol

 

[foucault87]

lol

Winning is almost guaranteed to be fired in 3 years. Dodged a bullet there

 

[Futuredome]

Freedom to be themselves is a good thing in the context of a well-defined offensive/defensive system. You don't want guys freelancing all the time, but you need to not be so restrictive you take away their ability to make decisions on the court in real time. However, you also don't want them operating outside of the principles of the offense or defense you're trying to run.

Here's where "freedom to be yourself" becomes bad. All offseason, all the Cavs talked about was wanting to push the pace. We saw it at times, especially when Garland was out. Then, with Garland back, he had the "freedom to be himself," which is a ball-dominant PG who likes to play slow and pound the air out of the ball. Garland being himself falls outside of the Cavs stated goals to start the season, and no matter how many times JBB yelled at him to push the ball up the court, he'd take his time getting it across the half-court line.

I'm mainly using Garland because he's the most obvious example of how this can go wrong. Ultimately, JBB sucks either way.

Except Garland is not necessarily slow. Indeed, when Mitchell was out, the Cavs fired up a bunch of 3 point shot games. The problem is between attrition, Garland slumping a bit from last year at 3 and guys crashing back to earth(Okoro) left the Cavs short. Typical JB driven season. A big point made with Mitch land was they could provide different styles to attach the opposing team. The first half of the Cavs Magic 4 was very much driven by that Mitchell Allen pnr from January. The problem is unlike the January game vs the Magic, they were healthy, looking to adjust and hoped the Cavs would basically do the same thing. Indeed they did. JB showed no adjustment, Mitchell got hammered. Bigs neutralized. We need more Garland perimeter probing with shooters ready to shoot. JB coached in fear and Mitchell went on a to parade.

 

[bushwick_bill]

Fully preparing myself for Gilbert to hire JJ Reddick as the next head coach as a “splashy” hire.

Hornets might have something to say about this...

 

[BiGZD]

https://youtube.com/shorts/y8nTnlWROqE?si=pFardj2p4XUrGbWv

Found the video where he basically says adjustments aren’t really a thing and it’s all about whoever executes better lol. If I’m a player, how can I trust this guy as the coach of the team?

I can't believe he actually said that nonsense, no less in front of a live camera. I've known for two years how much of an idiot he is, but I didn't know he was this big of idiot. Leader of men my ass.

 

[BiGZD]

Chill dude. I’m obviously being facetious. But JBB has to be fired. Has to be. And if we win this series, Koby may keep him. Do you want this teams ceiling to be the second round? Greater good

I think we are well past the point of him keeping his job even if he wins this series. If they somehow beat Boston that's a Different story

 

[foucault87]

I believe this is what we call deflection. Ugh repclae jbb asap

 

[Dr No]

This has been my qualm with the dude all season.

We should be running a high movement offense given the skill-sets of our bigs alongside our guys who are good shooting on the move in Strus, Merrill, DG & Don with Allen and Mobley heavily involved in backside screen and flare/cut actions off ball to keep the defense in compromising spots.

Instead we play ISOs and P&R as the vast majority of our possessions and hope for the best, then we're left in our current mess.

The only time our offense clicked this year was when people got hurt and it forced JBB to go away from what he wanted to do.

 

[Ohioplayer00]

Fully preparing myself for Gilbert to hire JJ Reddick as the next head coach as a “splashy” hire.

Dawn Staley

 

[bushwick_bill]

 

[David.]

Well he has very clearly stated he's not going to make a single adjustment and that's not a thing in the nba so I wonder what he's identifying

 

[bushwick_bill]

Well he has very clearly stated he's not going to make a single adjustment and that's not a thing in the nba so I wonder what he's identifying

We will find out in a bout 32 hours...

 

[wuck]

are the odds better that JBB shrinks the rotation to 6-7 players (let's say: no Niang), keeps exactly the same rotation, or expands the rotation to 9-10 players (Morris? Merrill? Thompson) to see if something else clicks?

i feel like the odds here are 5%, 90%, 5% but wish it felt more likely to see some extra role players at least in home games where they might perform ok.