The Official NBA Finals Thread: Game 7 - Cleveland Cavaliers are your 2016 NBA Champions

[Hank Scorpio]

4. The whole David Blatt mess. David Blatt was signed as a coach before LeBron came back to the Cavs. He should've let the Cavs know about his intentions to come back before they signed Blatt so they could sign a legit experienced NBA coach and go after the championship right away instead of an experimental coach that David Blatt was.

Experimental coach?

Blatt was a highly respectable and experienced coach in Europe/Israel. He lead the Cavs to the #1 seed last season and was coaching the #1 seed team before the ASG and got fired, because LeBron became boys with Lue and wanted him to coach the team.

At least Blatt had the Warriors in the corner in the NBA Finals last season. Lue is bending over backwards to Kerr and still figuring out where the Hell he is. Lue doesn't even look like a head coach you'd take serious. Every time he speaks and addresses the media, I can't help but to think how the Hell this guy has a position of leadership. He doesn't speak like a leader nor has the experience or qualifications to be one.

 

[dat dude chris]

Am i in there. Picked the Warriors in 5. Posted it before Game 1

 

[Hank Scorpio]

I originally had the Warriors in 5, but stuck with 6.

Dammit, man!

 

[T0INE]

They have enough to win a championship. They just don't have enough to beat this GS team.

This basically.

GSW's ascension the last few years has been amazing.

From middle of the pack playoff team to NBA champion to historically great team on the cusp of another championship and potential dynasty.

 

[dat dude chris]

How can anyone take a coach srs when all you can think bout is him getting stepped over

Plus hes barely over 10 yrs older than some of the guys hes coaching

 

[everysingletime]

Im seriously STILL cringing on 80mill for TT.



What the hell was Lebron thinking?

To me it looks like it was a panic move out of pure desperation.

Yea Bron with those short term contracts making GMs panick into making an ill advised move smh

 

[Hank Scorpio]

How can anyone take a coach srs when all you can think bout is him getting stepped over

Plus hes barely over 10 yrs older than some of the guys hes coaching

Have you heard him speak? He sounds like an AAU coach from the inner-city

 

[EddieDoyers]

Lue actually didn't want management to fire Blatt. He knew that Blatt was the better coach, but LeBron gets what he wants, and look what just happened,two blowouts already

 

[everysingletime]

How can anyone take a coach srs when all you can think bout is him getting stepped over

Plus hes barely over 10 yrs older than some of the guys hes coaching

That's also on Bron. He wanted someone he can get along with, not a real coach smh

 

[ill steelo]

He has substantially regressed as a scorer. Not sure how that can be argued.

Again, this is NT putting offense at a premium.

Melo's offense has regressed (if you want to say that), but he's been a much better defender and distributor on the offensive end. He even does a much better job at rebounding the ball.

He's even played the role of being a mentor and "big brother" to Porzingas which has contributed to his own development. But these are things you'll NEVER see unless you watch Knicks games on a consistent basis.

It's actually tiring to hear the Melo slander, when it's not even warranted.

Pointing out a prolific scorer posted his lowest numbers since he was a rookie is putting offense at a premium?

And he's a "much better" distributor? His assist & turnover rates are almost identical to what he did in '12 during his first full season in NY. He's not doing anything new in that facet.

He's also not defending any better than he did in '13 when they won 54 games & were 2 wins away from the conference finals.

Rebounding rate is also lower than what he's done in the past.

The only thing that's changed substantially is his scoring. Pointing that out doesn't = putting offense at a premium.

 

[dragicon]

Lue actually didn't want management to fire Blatt. He knew that Blatt was the better coach, but LeBron gets what he wants, and look what just happened,two blowouts already

source?

 

[Hank Scorpio]

That's also on Bron. He wanted someone he can get along with, not a real coach smh

I'm telling ya'll. When they make the LeBron SportsCentury, a big part that will be covered is his inability to be coached or have a legendary coach him. People will say LeBron got in his own way.

What could have been if he went to a team with a respectable coach.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Lue actually didn't want management to fire Blatt. He knew that Blatt was the better coach, but LeBron gets what he wants, and look what just happened,two blowouts already

source?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...d-blatt-s---messed--up--firing-153008987.html

 

[jjs07]

How?

What trade chips do they possibly have that would entice both teams?

Maybe Kyrie to NY, because they're devoid of a SG, but there aren't nearly enough enticing assets to make the deal work...on top of it all, Love to LA makes ZERO sense.

It's a pipe dream.

Knicks would take Kyrie for Melo in a heartbeat. Do it, Phil!

Trade would NEVER happen straight up...on top of it all, Cavs don't have the pieces to get it done. What else is enticing on that roster?

 

[leavemeglazzies]

Experimental coach?

Blatt was a highly respectable and experienced coach in Europe/Israel. He lead the Cavs to the #1 seed last season and was coaching the #1 seed team before the ASG and got fired, because LeBron became boys with Lue and wanted him to coach the team.

At least Blatt had the Warriors in the corner in the NBA Finals last season. Lue is bending over backwards to Kerr and still figuring out where the Hell he is. Lue doesn't even look like a head coach you'd take serious. Every time he speaks and addresses the media, I can't help but to think how the Hell this guy has a position of leadership. He doesn't speak like a leader nor has the experience or qualifications to be one.

Key words right there.

The Cavs were a trash lottery every year so it was obvious what they were trying to do: "Look at this guy. He won a bunch in Europe so let's get him to coach our team and who knows, maybe 5 years down the road his winning ways will spread to the NBA". It was an experimental gamble because they were a trash team in full rebuild mode that had nothing to lose anyways.

 

[dat dude chris]

That's also on Bron. He wanted someone he can get along with, not a real coach smh

Yea I know. This whole situation is self inflicted

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Trade would NEVER happen straight up...on top of it all, Cavs don't have the pieces to get it done. What else is enticing on that roster?

Which roster? Knicks or Cavs?

We'd take back Frye

 

[phamo]

I pray for more Melo cappers from the knick thread to see this. Like why praise this dude as hard as they do ?

Pointing out a prolific scorer posted his lowest numbers since he was a rookie is putting offense at a premium?

And he's a "much better" distributor? His assist & turnover rates are almost identical to what he did in '12 during his first full season in NY. He's not doing anything new in that facet.

He's also not defending any better than he did in '13 when they won 54 games & were 2 wins away from the conference finals.

Rebounding rate is also lower than what he's done in the past.

The only thing that's changed substantially is his scoring. Pointing that out doesn't = putting offense at a premium.

 

[freeze]

#neverforget

Never forget how raw this was NT

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[Arthur Shelby]

Im seriously STILL cringing on 80mill for TT.


What the hell was Lebron thinking?

What do you mean ?

TT is a part of Lebron team keep it in the family not much to it

To say it was a bad move for the Cavs that's something else

 

[dathbgboy]

He has substantially regressed as a scorer. Not sure how that can be argued.

Again, this is NT putting offense at a premium.

Melo's offense has regressed (if you want to say that), but he's been a much better defender and distributor on the offensive end. He even does a much better job at rebounding the ball.

He's even played the role of being a mentor and "big brother" to Porzingas which has contributed to his own development. But these are things you'll NEVER see unless you watch Knicks games on a consistent basis.

It's actually tiring to hear the Melo slander, when it's not even warranted.

In this case, he could finally be seeing that his way wasn't getting it done and that it is in fact a team game. I've heard about him mentoring Porzingas, but can't say that I've said "Hey, let me watch the Knicks play" But Melo has to definitely be more team oriented in order to stretch his career and value, and that's both offense and defense.

 

[Proposition Joe]

Im seriously STILL cringing on 80mill for TT.


What the hell was Lebron thinking?

Raising his one of his best friends status as an agent, bron been about business more than basketball these past few years

 

[ill steelo]

Defense won't matter much if the offense can't muster more than 85-90 points a game.

Defense always matters giving up 3s on crap rotations no transition buckets for your offense..giving up layups in half court sets because guys ball watch...cherry pick runouts on defensive rebounds
Your offense doesn't matter if you can't stop the bleeding..Half court ISO when ur down double digits no d on other end = not smart bball

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Giving up that many points is bad, but scoring so few points is just as bad.

They're ******.

I don't think they'll be able to stay away from the "1 guy dribble, 4 guys watch" offense enough to pull this one out.

 

[elpablo21]

 

 

Am i in there. Picked the Warriors in 5. Posted it before Game 1

http://niketalk.com/newsearch/?sear...ype=all&containingthread[0]=649456&advanced=1

Couldnt find your pick, I didnt collect any predictions from the playoff thread only this one

 

[dathbgboy]

Love should go to the warriors. fill that david lee spot. He'd be a beast again on their squad because he can pass and hit the 3 ball. And beating lebron is something all of his ex teammates should strive for.

But the Warriors don't need another shooter, what they need is a big man who is down to put a body on somebody and be stingy w/ the rebounds. If he could block shots too that'd be great. Love wouldn't provide that for the Warriors. I'd say they'd actually benefit from a dude like Dwight Howard if he wouldn't be complaining about setting screens for a pick-n-role.