It used to be we scheduled our life around Cavaliers games. It’s now officially not only a chore to try to watch them, but we don’t even like to think about this team. Their lack of intensity and focus is offensive and appalling.
It’s not perfect, but anyone questioning the roster as the problem seriously needs to take a closer accounting of things. All these guys didn’t forget how to play when they crossed into Cuyahoga County.
They’re being utilized incorrectly – we’ve been saying this since about Game 3 of this season. (Actually, we said it last year, too – we simply assumed CLE would be hiring an offensive specialist assistant coach.)
You’ve heard all this. We sick of talking about it. You’re sick of reading about it. It’s stripped the joy out of the NBA for us. Therefore, our boycott/strike/whatever is officially a QUITTAGE.
We thank everyone for your email recaps, but we don’t want them anymore – they all say the same thing, which is the same garbage that’s been going on all year – Coach Mike needs to go. Nice guy by all accounts, but he’s in over his head. As soon as he does, we’re back onboard.
Oh yeah, the Cavaliers got rolled over by the Pistons yesterday at home.
Columbus Cavs gets Coach Mike’s awesome post-game comments about how there weren’t even any plays being called.
The national media is beginning to catch on to the truth about Coach Mike.
As embarrassing as the game was overall, the PA dude screaming “DEE-TROIT TUURN-OVER” was jarring. Fire him, too – that was horrible. And why did it sound so loud on TV?
We’re sorry this is such a bum post, but we just can’t take it anymore. This team, as we said, has robbed us of our NBA-love and is destroying our creative abilities, so we really can’t bear to deal with it (or make you deal with it) until something major changes.
That said, if you’ve got low seats at the Q, email us at yaysports@gmail.com. We have t-shirt to send you, but you need to wear it! It’s time to start the “FIRE COACH MIKE” campaign.
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The problem with the Sun Times column is that the writer refers to Brown’s half-court style on offense. That would suggest he has a style.
The line starts back here, buddy … FIRE MILLEN!
Man I cringed when I heard that ‘Dee-troit turn-o-ver’ thing. It wasn’t even properly a turnover. It’s stupid and annoying when Detroit does it. To mock it is stupider and annoyinger.
What could the team be like this year if an offensive-specialist assistant coach was installed in the offseason? How come this didn’t happen? Everyone assumed it would!
Still, they won’t fire him unless this season tanks, and only after the season is over. He won too many games last year and still has a good record this year. It’s probably good the Cavs don’t have an itchy-trigger-finger front office, but I’m starting to agree about Brown.
Can we just demote him to assistant coach? He’s good at that…
Perhaps the Cavs could demote Brown without telling him. “Listen, Mike, you work too much, we’re gonna bring in this guy who will be the Bad Cop, he’ll call time-outs and yell at the players and insist that they have some semblance of an offensive philosophy and you still get to run the defense and spit into cups! Hooray!”
Hopefully with your “QUITTAGE” of the Cavs you can focus on WSM.
Doesn’t Kobe’s hero Harry Potter play “QUITTAGE”
I think LeBron has put on a little bit of weight. Granted, he’s still a beast, but he’s getting heavier.
Welcome to the world of Knicks fans. I am on Day 630 or so of my boycott of not watching my team until Isaiah Thomas gets fired. Good luck.
I totally agree. From a guy who has watched almost every game of the Lebron era, I am just so dissapointed this year. Thought it would be much better and it is just brutal to watch.
If I were the coach, this is what I would do:
1. Shorten the rotation to 9 max! That means that Wesley, Snow, are permanently on the bench. Pollard only gets out there if there is an injury (and I like him). This would make the rotation:
PG – Boobie, DJ (no more playing him at the 2)
SG – Hughes, Sasha
SF – Bron, Sasha
PF – Gooden, AV, Marshall
C – Z, AV
2. Bron at PF sometimes
I think we need to mess with the lineups as well. Let’s have an DG/LH/SP/LBJ/AV lineup. Look what phoenix did. I know, they have a real PG, but I think this would enhance our athleticism and speed of that lineup.
Plus think of the matchup problems with PF’s having to guard bron.
3. Full Court Press!
If we aren’t playing with intensity, make them go baseline to baseline and press! Are you telling me that for 5 minute stretches in a game that having boobie, hughes and bron would not get a couple steals?!?
4. Make Lebron move without the ball
literally take him out if he dribbles for an entire shot clock. Also, teams are following detroit’s lead and playing basically a box and 1 (semi zone) when he has the ball. That means we should have either Boobie, Sasha or DJ out there (2 of the 3 at least
5. Hughes
I might take him out of the starting lineup for now. Play Sasha instead. Get his head and Jumpshot straight. He takes too many bad shots and is better on a running team.
that’s it off the top of my head, what would ya’ll do?
I totally agree. From a guy who has watched almost every game of the Lebron era, I am just so dissapointed this year. Thought it would be much better and it is just brutal to watch.
If I were the coach, this is what I would do:
1. Shorten the rotation to 9 max! That means that Wesley, Snow, are permanently on the bench. Pollard only gets out there if there is an injury (and I like him). This would make the rotation:
PG – Boobie, DJ (no more playing him at the 2)
SG – Hughes, Sasha
SF – Bron, Sasha
PF – Gooden, AV, Marshall
C – Z, AV
2. Bron at PF sometimes
I think we need to mess with the lineups as well. Let’s have an DG/LH/SP/LBJ/AV lineup. Look what phoenix did. I know, they have a real PG, but I think this would enhance our athleticism and speed of that lineup.
Plus think of the matchup problems with PF’s having to guard bron.
3. Full Court Press!
If we aren’t playing with intensity, make them go baseline to baseline and press! Are you telling me that for 5 minute stretches in a game that having boobie, hughes and bron would not get a couple steals?!?
4. Make Lebron move without the ball
literally take him out if he dribbles for an entire shot clock. Also, teams are following detroit’s lead and playing basically a box and 1 (semi zone) when he has the ball. That means we should have either Boobie, Sasha or DJ out there (2 of the 3 at least
5. Hughes
I might take him out of the starting lineup for now. Play Sasha instead. Get his head and Jumpshot straight. He takes too many bad shots and is better on a running team.
that’s it off the top of my head, what would ya’ll do?
The assiest thing (that’s right- I SAID “ASSIEST”) about the PA announcer thing was that he was doing that to the entertainment of nobody as the crowd had already left and was on their second Superbowl PreGame PreShow beer on their overstuffed and comfy leather couches.
I don’t think I’ll be going to the Q for a game anytime soon. As has been noted somewhere*, the team is not fun to watch, and it would seem the fans are continually assaulted with the nattering of idiots at volume levels that can be fairly compared to those used by the CIA in sleep-depravation torture tactics. Perhaps all the money they would save by turning the PA down would be better spent on a point guard.
*everywhere.
Can I ask why everyone calls him Boobie? I hate that nickname. It’s worse than booger.
if you can’t stand the cavs anymore, lakers are happy to have more fans
Cavalier, can you still watch other teams play?
Yeah of course, just not my own.
At this point you’d be better off watching the Clippers, and the Clippers are insanely boring. The Cavs have driven me to eat mass birthday cake and hamburgers.
Screw that notion of Cav fans giving up on the team and rooting for the Lakers. C’mon… the Cavs try to imitate the PISTONS, their sauvy cousins up north.
I myself will catch any Cavs game I can… can’t get enough of Amanda on the Dance Squad!
It’s a little silly to say the roster isn’t the problem. This team was constructed to mirror San Antonio and Detroit, teams built around the NBA’s two best low post defenders and the NBA’s two best backcourts.
The Cavs have a terrible low post defender and probably the NBA’s worst backcourt.
leroy then you agree with me…
The Cavs have a coach who insists on trying to play a style that’s ill-suited to his personnel.
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