What happened to Sasha Pavlovic?

[Wisedude42]

Mike Brown ruined him. Brown never berates his black players. He constantly yells at Sasha and is totally negative.

Sasha will go to a team with a professional coach who knows how to develop and coach players instead of this rookie coach that was never a head coach on any level before.

Brown's assistant coaches do all the coaching. He has an offensive coach and a defensive coach that are teaching Brown.

[mg]

Please...Mike Brown has had trouble relating to other players including Devin Brown last year so let's not use the racism card here.

Sasha's shooting % are higher now than ever because he has confidence being back in the starting lineup.

Sasha's best position is SF and that position is filled for some time in Cleveland. Anyone else have a feeling Pavs could play for some coach like D'Antoni or Dunleavy and average 16 PPG? I"m a Pavlovic fan but don't think he'll be in Cleveland long term. He'll be gone by 2010 and starting for another team that needs a SF. He'll do best on a fast paced team that has a good PG to initiate offense.

[freakazoid]

You guys just made the mistake of drafting Sasha, who is nothing more than a solid role player, in the first round.

Now, as for his defense, it's above average..but far from shutdown..and he has his lapses. He was responsible for Okur's wide open game tying opportunity last night....Andy had recovered and took Harpring to prevent a lob to the basket, but Sasha tunnel-visioned Harpring and left Okur(the guy he should have picked up) wide open. He also tends to fall for pump fakes more than the average defender, but his crafty hands and use of his above average athleticism make him a very solid 1-on-1 defender and MB's system enables him to sometimes get a few nice steals from the weak side.

As a Jazz fan, I can assure you that most Utah fans lost their mind when Utah left Sasha exposed to the expansion draft. I was one of the few who was over-frickin-joyed when The cats took him and traded him to Cleveland.

I'll admit that he's better than I ever expected him to be, but I'll honestly take Ronnie Brewer, CJ Miles, and Kile Korver a thousand times over before I'd ever take a POS like Sasha ever again. Dude seriously sucks. True story.

If Utah regrets anything, it's the fact that Mo-Williams ended up on the Cavs.

One of the most under-rated players in the league.

Mo Williams = an absolute stud.

[TheOUTLAW]

Mike Brown ruined him. Brown never berates his black players. He constantly yells at Sasha and is totally negative.

Sasha will go to a team with a professional coach who knows how to develop and coach players instead of this rookie coach that was never a head coach on any level before.

Brown's assistant coaches do all the coaching. He has an offensive coach and a defensive coach that are teaching Brown.

You obviously never saw Brown with Gooden. Of course, I think that everyone would have had alot of negative in their conversations with Sasha. He can do some of the most boneheaded of things. He's playing very well right now however. I just with he was more consistently aggressive on offense.

[InBoobieWeTrust]

Mike Brown didn't ruin Pavlovic, Pavlovic held out for more money, missed an entire training camp at 25% of a season, then pouted when his PT dwindled after he struggled.

He has no one to blame but HIMSELF for that debacle, and at least he's getting back on track now.