Comments on: Coach Mike is awful

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:20:02 +0000

Dave, that may have been true last night, but it doesn’t explain a whole season of going away from what works.
It’s like they don’t have any real ingrained plan on offense, and I think that’s exactly the problem. Adjustments might work if they had something with which to begin.

The one up for Brown is that this team truly plays better defense than I ever would have believed they could play.

By: Fios

Fios — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:06:17 +0000

Edit: A plan on offense, the qualifier wasn’t necessary

By: Fios

Fios — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:05:35 +0000

If Mike Brown returns next season sans a new plan on offense, I may have to boycott

By: TVBrain

TVBrain — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:01:37 +0000

USA Basketball? Is that the new standard? Call me when they win something.

About 2 of the “strips” in this whole series have been clean.

Pistons in 5.

By: The Cavalier

The Cavalier — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:12:01 +0000

What tragic and funny is that this is exactly the same problem as last summer – they desperately need an assistant coach that’s an offensive guru. Coach Mike seems to be against that, but it’s not like Phil Jackson didn’t get all the credit for what Tex Winter did with the triangle. He’ll still get the glory or whatever. I just want to see passing and ball movement and cutting and all that stuff people refer to as “basketball”.

By: Token Euro

Token Euro — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:01:11 +0000

* As the Cavalier noted, let’s not (just) blame the refs. While the CLE-NJN series was going on someone wrote that whichever superstar had the ball for the last play would cause his team to lose. It’s been the same story here. It’s not like screens are forbidden in the last minutes, are they?

* The way both teams started was shocking, no turnovers or field goals missed during the first 2 minutes. Chris Webber dunking! Feeding Ilgauskas! It pretty much went downhill from there.

* The Cavs had two players playing up to their level: Pavlovic & Gibson. LeBron was amazing for a half. And yet they were in this game. The East is painful.

* Having an actual point guard would have helped.

* At least half of the offensive rebounds in this game were due to players just falling asleep rather than amazing effort.

* When Coach Mike got that technical it was pretty obvious he was just doing that because that’s what coaches are supposed to do. You could tell he didn’t believe in it. Good coaches = good actors. Assistant coaches that are in over their head = not so much.

* It’s a pity Adelman didn’t want to leave the West, he could do something with this team. It seems like all the possible replacements left are flawed (lack of experience, bad offense, annoying). If Ferry has the guts to fire Brown that is.

* If one of these teams wins two games against the Spurs it’d be an upset.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:32:55 +0000

the problem is that the cavs TRY to stick with what worked in the first half, but the pistons make adjustments to counter that, so it’s no longer working anymore. a brighter offensive coach would make adjustments to their adjustments, but thats not what mike brown does.

By: USA Jim

USA Jim — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:25:37 +0000

Does anybody else get turned on by Madea? I’d like to stick my US in her A if you know what I mean….

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:11:49 +0000

Boney is spot on about the horrible call AV got when Billups cleanly stripped him.
The reffing was pathetically bad. This ‘let them play’ thing is BS. No one can play basketball when the refs can’t call the game. Unfortuanately the last 2 blown calls went against the Cavs. Doesn’t mean they didn’t miss a million more throughout the game for both teams.

The Cavs can’t stick with what’s working for some reason. Neither the players on the floor nor the coach. It’s a great mystery to me. Hopefully the Cavs back at the Q get a few more whistles and few more cajones.

By: Boney

Boney — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:36:45 +0000

If LeBron goes down on the post, Tayshaun can’t stop him. That’s a point I’ve never argued with… the extending of the arm was a foul, but the flop by Varejao to try and get the call wasn’t necessary. The game was called horribly for both teams.

After looking at the last play, LeBron was fouled on the floor and not on the shot. He initiated the contact on the shot by extending his elbow into Hamilton’s chest, but Hamilton definitely did mug him on the floor, no doubt.

Why is noone talking about the Kobe-like elbow from ‘Bron in game 1? Next time he does it I believe your boy Stu Jackson will have something to say about it.