pinoycavsfan
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Is it time to replace lue with blatt?
and the decision to go with Lebron for the last shot of regulation was a very bad one. Especially with the play he drew up.
Should have gone with Kyrie and that should have been the easiest decision of his career.
I'm not sure if Lue is regressing or experimenting. But the championship last year pretty much gives him a free pass card. If we didn't win it all last year and he's coaching the way he is now. He would be on the hot seat. I think this has a lot of do with Lombardi or what ever his name is. His defensive system us just not click with the players and it never will. the guy might be gone next year.
Right now the biggest mistake that will come back to bite Lue is not retesting LeBron enough this season. He can still fix this though with the 2nd half of the season coming up.
Defensively we saw exactly the same things last year with Mike Longabardi taking over the defense.
I think the experiment has run it's course, but upper management needs to be convinced.
I get why we hired the guy, but... sometimes personnel don't fit with specific schemes.
I'd prefer if we went back to Lue's defensive system which seemed a great deal simpler, and was more physical and aggressive.
The lack of putting Korver and Frye in for the last shot was... baffling to say the least.
That lineup was outscored 30-3.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 has no system.. It's a simple high PnR and give Lebron the ball in the high post and watch him do some magic.
Shitty game decisions , rotations and use of timeouts. He has been putrid and the decision to go with Lebron for the last shot of regulation was a very bad one. Especially with the play he drew up.
Should have gone with Kyrie and that should have been the easiest decision of his career.
Last night brought back memories of Game 1 of the 2015 Finals. Even with an injured Love I wonder "what could have been" had LeBron not gone for the impossible hero 3 at the end of regulation.However, LeBron's biggest issue his whole career is he worships himself. He thinks he can do anything on the court like a god. Which, is usually true. That doesn't mean he doesn't put his head up his ass sometimes. In game winning scenarios, he often settles for the hero shot--almost as if he misses it, the level of difficulty excuses the failure. This is a guy who can get to the rack at will, and his game winning attempts are always bullshit fadeaways.