Cavs vs Bulls

[Okada]

This is such a dead team forum. Step it up!

[Okada]

36% shooting for the first quarter. Sigh.

[CLEbland]

Kyrie's defense against Augustin is just embarrassing. Totally negating any sort of offensive contribution from him.

[Okada]

Holy **** Earl Clark lol.

[Okada]

Clark has hit only 4 of his last 32 three point attempts. Awful.

[CLEbland]

That dunk was sick by Clark.

[kiwibrindle]

What's really sad is the bulls are kicking our a$$ w/o Deng Roae Boozer and Heinrich sorry but this effort or lack of it is completely on Brpwn if Tib can get that type of effort out of scrubs. It just shows you what type of negative our coach has on this young team I'm getting close to avoid fox sports channel for the rest of the year

[Okada]

There's basically only a couple of coaches in the league at any given time who can extract as much from their players as Thibs does, so quit complaining because there's no one you could possibly replace Brown with that's gonna do what Thibs does, at least not for years and years.

[Okada]

5 triples in the quarter for Kyrie. Heat check.

Lol that Noah dunk/scream was terrifying. Looked like a foul though on Noah.

[SaiCLE]

I know the game Is close and there Is a lot of positives. But I'm sick and tired of Mike Brown's weird obsession with Jarrett Jack. And the fact that Brown has made Dion into a spot up shooter who doesn't get the ball lol. Dion Is a play maker and Brown has decided to move away from that strength like wtf?

Also I think Brown should have played Bennett a little bit against Taj just to have a big body on him.

I love this effort on Defense and Kyrie Is ballin' right now

[kiwibrindle]

I respectfully disagree the czar got us to the playoffs with crap during the 80's and he was available. Hollins got tons out of cancers in Memphis and he was available and every night there are at least 50 homeless guys on public square with equal communication skills as Brown available Good thing Kyrie was in the zone in the 2nd

[Okada]

I respectfully disagree the czar got us to the playoffs with crap during the 80's and he was available. Hollins got tons out of cancers in Memphis and he was available and every night there are at least 50 homeless guys on public square with equal communication skills as Brown available Good thing Kyrie was in the zone in the 2nd

You're not going to find anyone who will be a significant upgrade over Brown right now unless you either nailed a no-namer or lured Phil Jackson out of retirement. As Bill Simmons said:

Only after the ’81 Playoffs did people start believing that coaches could work wonders. I’ve purposely avoided them in this book for the following reason: there’s no concrete evidence that they make a genuine, consistent difference except for a small handful of gifted leaders (Pat Riley, Gregg Popovich, Phil Jackson, Chuck Daly, Larry Brown, Jerry Sloan) and forward thinkers (Mike D’Antoni, Don Nelson, Jack
Ramsey). Plenty of coaches understand The Secret; only a few can pass it along to players; even fewer can keep The Secret thriving with any type of roster. Daly spearheaded those terrific Bad Boy Pistons teams, failed to find the same success with two knuckleheads (Derrick Coleman and Kenny Anderson) in New Jersey, then suffered through the unhappiest of seasons with a petulant Penny Hardaway on the ’97 Magic. Only a handful of coaches would have enjoyed the same success that Daly had with Detroit, just like the same handful would have failed to reach Coleman, Kenny, and Penny. Which brings me back to my point: unless you’re teaming an elite coach with a quality roster, coaches don’t really matter. You have your top guys—usually three or four per year—and everyone else ranges between functional, overrated, replaceable, incompetent, “my God, what a train wreck,” and Vinny Del Negro. Most of them tread water or inflict as much damage as good. Look at the firing numbers over the past decade: eight to ten coaches get fired every year, none lasts more than three or four years, and there might be three or four quality coaches in any given season. Doc Rivers lost 18 straight games and won a title within a sixteen-month span. Hubie finished with a record of 424–495 and somehow became known as a memorably good coach in the process. Paul Westphal led the Suns to the ’93 Finals; within eight years, nobody would hire him. KC Jones made the Finals four of five years in Boston, took two years
off , then lasted 118 games in Seattle. We have amassed overwhelming evidence that coaches are exceedingly dispensable—they’re only as good as their talent, with a limited number of exceptions. Occasionally they might stumble into the right situation, but ultimately, players win titles and coaches lose them.

[kiwibrindle]

Ya and that was A great time out result turnover

[SaiCLE]

Where the f*ck Is Dion

[kiwibrindle]

On the bench I know

[kiwibrindle]

Do you think Gibson has a mismatch? We can't stop him

[Okada]

Bulls shooting 89% for the quarter to 17% for the Cavs. Jesus. And Taj Gibson has a freaking career high after 2 and a half quarters...

[SaiCLE]

Do you think Gibson has a mismatch? We can't stop him

No they are leaving him wide open...

[Niko23]

I turned down really really really good seats tonight.....sure as f*ck glad I did

[SaiCLE]

Remember this Mike Brown Is our head coach for at least 4 more years... Let that sink in...