I hate Coach Mike Brown of the Cleveland Cavaliers so much. I keep thinking the Cavs could have won game 1 of this series with an average NBA coach… or even an average college coach!
Here are some great quotes from Mike Brown after last night’s game, courtesy of WKYC in Cleveland, to prove his ineptitude:
“There’s no magic play, no magic defense… this is a good team and we have to bring the juice” [by “juice” he means aggressiveness].
Actually, Coach Brown is wrong. His job is to devise plays and to devise defenses to provide an organized attack and strategy for success! That’s how you coach!
“We have a lack of focus, a lack of effort, and a lack of aggression.”
“We have got to be aggressive. Drive and kick the b-ball. Move it. Set screens. Attack the rim. If you are wide-open you have to step in and hit the shot.”
And my absolute favorite…
Question: “Changing the aggression, changing the focus… emotionally, how do you affect that change with the team?
Mike Brown: “We have to dig within. I don’t have anything that magical. I’m not that smart. I wish I was. I wish I had something to give them. We’ve been down 0-2 before… we got thumped last year against Detroit to go down 0-2.”
http://www.cleveland.com/wkyc/video/index.ssf?/wkyc/video/wkycclip.ssf?aid=36804&bw=
So, in conclusion, what Mike Brown is saying is that he has nothing to offer, there are no plays that he’s going to call, but at least they’ve been down 0-2 before, so hopefully they’ll be fine.
As my Canadian friend said, "if this isn’t the greatest case of a coach performing “NONFEASANCE” (“failure to perform an act that is either an official duty or a legal requirement”), I’m not sure what is." If there was ever a case where you could fire a coach DURING the NBA finals, this would be it!
I’m not trying to take anything away from the Spurs. But the fact is, the Cavs are so damn talented that they made the NBA Finals with a guy coaching the team who at least offensively, doesn’t help them in any way, shape, or form! If they had a slight bit of organization, they may be able to win a game against the Spurs! There would be more organization on this team if they had a high school coach! Please realize, that I don't get paid to coach the Cavs and I only have a limited knowledge of basketball in comparison to Coach Brown who watches videotapes of basketball for hours per week but I’m actually convinced now that the following options would have resulted in a Game 1 victory. :
1) Tecmo Bowl for Basketball - Running the same 4 plays all night long.
2) Running the Stack – Can you imagine if the Cavs ran the “stack” all night long? For those unfamiliar with the “stack” it’s the inbounds play where all of the team’s players are clumped or stacked together and then different players move at different times creating a confusing situation of picks and defensive mismatches. Lebron would certainly be open at some point if they ran the stack.
3) Devise Picks for Lebron when Lebron doesn’t have the ball – Yes, the most revolutionary concept for Mike Brown – letting Lebron run around screens and picks so this way he actually doesn’t get the ball until he already is OPEN and in the PAINT (or at least doesn’t have a double team on him).
4) Not Playing Hughes who has a torn foot muscle-
I’m so convinced at this point that a hobbled Larry Hughes isn’t even worth playing, that I thought it’d be illustrative to look at the plus/minus for Larry Hughes last night (I looked at the play-by-play on ESPN): minus 14. Taking a cue from 82games.com, it’s then illustrative to look at the Cavs plus/minus when Hughes is on the bench: plus 3 ! Holy jalopeno Batman!
I then decided to do the same exercise for Game 1 (just to prove that Game 2’s numbers weren’t due to the fact that the Spurs let the Cavs come back into the game):
Cavs plus/minus when Hughes was in the game: minus 18
Plus/minus when Hughes is on the bench: plus 9 !
If that isn’t proof that Hughes’s torn plantar fascia is negatively impacting the Cavs, I’m not sure what is!
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