Okay, we’re obviously totally down with the Cavaliers beating the Spurs last night, but we almost wish it hadn’t happened.
Why? Because of the way it happened.
Cleveland had 44 points at the end of three quarters.
Not only that, but Gregg Popovich got himself ejected with about five minutes left, Larry Hughes got hot for the first time in like 10 games, and Tim Duncan spent a full 17 minutes arguing one call.
Basically, it’s the classic Cavs scenario where they’re lucky to win, and now they’ll assume they’ve done the “righting of the ship” thing, which means they’re all but guaranteed to lose at BOS tonight.
That’s not even the real issue, though. The real issue is Cavs Head Coach Mike liking the way this went down.
“We all showed mental toughness, we all showed grit. We won the game the right way.”
“[Larry Hughes] is a testament of the mental toughness and the mental grit that I’m talking about. He turned the ball over in the first half, he missed shots in the first half, but the one thing he stayed with is his defense in the first half. He got it done by being a vocal leader, and in turn, that shot was able to go down.”
Nice.
Hey, is there any possibility we can install an offense that doesn’t lead to sub-high school level scores, missed shots, turnovers, and boos? Wouldn’t that be the simpler solution than counting on Coach Gregg getting himself intentionally ejected?
We feel like an ass for bashing our own team when they just beat one of the best in the NBA, but there are no other options here. They’re doomed if they keep playing this way.
Not only that, but they’re largely unwatchable. That thing was torture last night, and not because of the tension of a tight game or anything like that.
By the way, any Boston fans out there that want to wager on the game tonight are welcome to bring it, but you have to let us take the Celtics.
Also, did you know that Eva Longoria is famous?
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Hey, would you let your man Gilbert know that those blue flashing lights in the arena make the TV broadcast look horrible? Thanks. Oh, and that was a seriously fugly game.
They should start broadcasting in the dark if that’s how they’re gonna play.
The need to get rid of McLeod. The guy is a freaking joke to broadcasting. Also, what is up with Jeff Phelps broadcasting the play that is planned when the Cavs come out of their huddle after a timeout? Also did anyone else catch the fact that Carr said someone needed to elbow Parker?
They need to get rid of McLeod. The guy is a freaking joke to broadcasting. Also, what is up with Jeff Phelps broadcasting the play that is planned when the Cavs come out of their huddle after a timeout? Also did anyone else catch the fact that Carr said someone needed to elbow Parker?
Who cares, they beat the Spurs & my Mavs won. Good day for basketball.
You know, I thought Mike Brown would eventually learn and get it done of offense. He does have them playing good defense. But I’m starting to wonder.
I was at the game and I wept blood through three quarters.
More than him, I thought Ferry would’ve forced him to get a good system in place.
I thought the team, under Ferry, was embracing the John Hollinger philosophy, I thought I read via Windhorst that they had hired some stat guru? They seem to have totally disregarded any advice he might have. This team can not go deep into the playoffs as it is presently construed. By that I mean with Brown as as head coach.
In the interim, I suggest we encourage those Cavs season ticket holders sitting near Brown to scream at him the next time the team goes into an extensive stretch of terrible basketball. Perhaps he isn’t familiar with how timeouts can be utilized and can be cowed into using them.
I think yelling things like “Hey Coach Mike you should stop doing a bad job of coaching and start doing a good job and that will result in winning more games, like it or not and now you know!” would probably help.
The power of informative taunting
If you yell “LOOGIES!” at him, he just scrunches up his face in that strange Coach Mike Scowl (R)(TM) and applies lip balm.
This, of course, is the signal for that play where LeBron stands menacingly at the three point line with the ball and nobody else moves until the shot clock hits 2 and he jacks up a retarded looking shot over two guys that sometimes goes in and we all scream “Wooooo!”
Exactly! And that’s when Coach Mike is all like “Looks like the offense works fine. We scored, didn’t we?”
god i hate the spurs so much those whiny whores… nice work cavs
im losing my mind… ive posted the same message in about 12 different posts
oh well go mavs
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