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Tyronn Lue has been fired

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Northstar said:
Just hope that at this late in the season we have time to get integrated and everyone comfortable with their roles. I guess the first two rounds of the playoffs can also be counted as games available to get things dialed in. We've wasted these last two games with resting and then messing around for 80% of the game tonight.
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JR is going to get comfortable in the starting role ASAP. Like riding a bike for him, and he's already closing games with the starting unit.

Plus, with how Korver looked with LBJ and the bench unit before his foot flared up on him, and his past with D Will as teammates, I'm guessing he falls in line quickly too.

Real curious one is how does Shump translate to a much smaller role.
 
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Can anyone ask him a tough question tonight? Does the Cleveland media remember how to do that?

You know, a real simple "Why has the team's defense been so bad the entire season and how much of that is on you and how much is on the players?"
 
Jscc said:
You don't see that question implied in McMenamin's tweet?
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I don't think defensive scheme matters when you get out of anyone's way who says pardon me while going to the hoop

AC said it in the broadcast: you have to worry about individual defense before you can worry about locking down team defense. None of our players can keep anyone in front of them and it just becomes a paint party
 
I've been watching old Clippers tape recently, and even 14-15 Cavs tape recently.

It is reported that Lue was responsible for the defensive scheming for this teams, last year, it seemed like Lue eventually took back the defense after a lot of failure by Mike Longabardi's scheme.

Our scheme looks NOTHING like those teams ran. Personnel aside, there are major, defensive prinicple-type of things, that right now, we seem to be doing completely differently than anything Lue has ever coached in the past.

This leads me to believe that we are running Longabardi's stuff, even if it's a simplified version.

It is bad. I don't like it. It relies on a lot of personnel we don't have.

Lue's stuff is much simpler, easier to understand and execute. It may not have as much potential, but that potential only gets reached with super-elite defensive anchor-type guys.

Lue is the head coach. It is his responsibility to take over the defense and improve it. Maybe he knows he has to, but is waiting until the playoffs? I don't know. That's a mighty dangerous thing to not have ANY continuity in going forward, even if we ran it last post-season to relative success. If this is the case, I would like to see the "takeover" occur starting like, now.
 
Jscc said:
Is that not part of the coach's job to get the players to buy-in/execute?
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I mean, it's why Blatt was fired.

Lue really just seems to try to be the fun coach right now. Last season he forced accountability. This season, guys have been making the same mistake game after game after game with no change. In fact, we've regressed. It's either Lue or the team has their heads so far up their asses being the defending champs that they don't need to put effort in until the playoffs. His hard headedness to also play RJ so much is annoying me. He put a lineup that had Deron, Kyle, Richard, LeBron and Channing. And tonight LeBron was playing awful team defense... Needless to say we went from down 5 to down 15 in 2 minutes.
 
Jscc said:
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A generous way to look at this is that the Cavs are working on defensive adjustments that they do not want to reveal until the playoffs. Which is actually something they did in last year's playoffs, in terms of pulling out some stuff they hadn't tried during the regular season.

I don't believe that's the case here. It's hard to plan a secret plan B when plan A isn't sufficient. I'm glad that they're at least devoting some time to improve.
 
He's Byron Scott bad. Just clueless. He might have been the first ever contract year coach last year.
 
The evidence is mounting that he's not good, but it'll be impossible to do anything about it as long as LeBron is here to carry him.

He doesn't manage minutes well. The defense, since the moment he took over, has been headed downhill. He was sold last year as a guy who was going to hold people accountable. What in the holy hell happened to that idea? There's been zero of that this year.
 
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