Blatt tried that approach to make Lebron like him. Lebron thought less of him for it. So did the rest of the team.
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It’s hard to coach superstars, Lue said. “You have to get them to buy into your plan, your vision. You must have a shared vision.
“The players run the league,” Lue said. “This is not college, where the coach runs it. It’s not overseas. This is the NBA, so when you have those great players, they run the league. If they’re not happy with you, you’ll be gone.”
As we concluded the conversation, Lue thought about the future and said at some point in his head-coaching career, he would like to coach a team of younger, less experienced players.
Obviously, the run with James and a veteran Cavaliers team has been great.
“I’ve seen that side. I’ve dealt with a veteran team for the last three years,” Lue said. “If I get a chance or an opportunity, I would like to coach younger talent to see if I can coach those guys to take on my personality, coach them and mold them to the team I want them to be.”
He added that it’s rewarding to coach veteran teams like Cleveland because the players have been through the battles, they know who they are.
“When you coach a veteran team, you can’t mold,” he said. “They already are who they are. There is no changing those guys — which is not a bad thing.”
Lue said coaches are no different from players who want to challenge themselves.
His challenge would be eventually winning with the type of younger players Cleveland traded for this season. “You want to take on a different role and responsibility, that you can coach a young team and mold that team to be a good team, a tough team, a playoff team when they have not won,” Lue said.
