Why David Blatt Was Fired By The Cavaliers 

+Yung Shonen Yes, I agree.Thanks

+Yung Shonen the fact is that Blatt has right now more experience than Lue probably will ever have. NBA players sometimes forget that basketball is not only NBA and even if the style can be different in europe, if someone as proven as Blatt is your coach, you have to respect him no matter what. The players acted like unprofessional 3 years old, and the gm didn't had the balls to put lebron against the wall even if lebron's contract's power is so huge.

+Nicola Montori I agree that Blatt has substantial head coaching experience but I'm just stating how NBA insiders look at it. The players and coaches didn't respect his decisions because he was basically an NBA rookie. But in Blatt's defense, he suggested changes and adjustments that helped the team make a surge in the 2nd half of the season and make it to the Finals. Getting JR Smith & Shumpert. Bringing up Dellevedova. Acquiring his longtime player Timofey Mozgov. Switching to a more defensive oriented style. All of this had Blatt's fingerprints on it. I just believe that MANY people in the organization wanted Lue over Blatt. And this entire ordeal reeks of Dan Gilbert.

The Cavs organization makes me laugh because not only they won't reach the finals this year with Lue, but also wouldn't have reached them last year without the adjustments Blatt made to make it work. Being an ex NBA player doesn't automatically make you a better coach. If GMs, insiders and players can't understand that I think they will substantially fail for their own fault.

+Nicola Montori Naw they're getting to the Finals 😂😂 They're just not beating whoever comes out of the West

Nihilism Wolf lol true

he is respected but Blatt is not consider as the best coach in Europe.

+Hecameup Nah he can come to the warriors :). Steve Kerr wanted him as an assistant in the first place. He might as well go there now and watch the Cavs continue to dysfunction while enjoying some camaraderie with a great organization.

+Hecameup Blatt is for sure not THE most successful Coach in Euro Ball!!

+Hecameup i agree. blatt doesnt look like a charming leader based on how close his eyes are to each other. but in no way he should be disrespected the way lebron and co did to him. literally from the get go as he was hired he has been ridden on by lebron like a little puppy.

That's a good point. However, other teams in the East show some level of dysfunction as well and many of the teams are up-and-comers (young teams).

+Shadow9220 While I do realize that the Cavs have the "big 3" and the rest of the east are pretty bad, it's notable how coach Blatt kept the team on top without criticizing the star players' mistakes/lack of effort

+Drunk Bastard Tru, west is and has been better than the east for a while now

+jonny parker bot really the east have been low-key good this season. Hornet is looking pretty good, Wolves, Knicks, Bulls and damn Raptors are back again i hope they won't disappear again after all star break (because they did last season)

+Jason Saw sure they're looking better than last year, but look at the west. 4 loss Warriors, 6 loss Spurs, third place okc that could easily be #1 in the east, fourth place Clippers have a better record than #2 toronto. Idk but the west is on fire rn

oh stfu

Breezy is he not tho? The team follows his lead

+pranith001 its just his classic passive-aggressive attitude

Shut the fuck up. The decision only upset whiny babies.

+pranith001 he's not the best player of this generation.

Im a lbj fan but he got hired before lebron came back to cleveland.He was expecting a young team with 0 expectations then all of a sudden the return comes up and he has all of these expectations and media frenzy on him for 1.5 years and i feel bad for the guy.I personally dont think hes a bad coach at all he was just a victim of unreal expectations

Miltonman100 Exactly

+Miltonman100 well said, totally agree

+Curtis Brown A.K.A Cleveland Lebrons

+Curtis Brown they aren't going to win with tyrone lue. the team is lazy and complacent. lebron says he wants to win a ring for cleveland but he doesn't bring 100% effort every night. i also hate how some of the other players play on the team. JR smith is a overrated bum and he doesn't deserve to win anything with the way he approaches the game. i'm very disappointed in how kevin love has played in cleveland. he looks out of place and lost half the time.

Was Kobe 31 and played in the finals 5 consecutive years lmfao that's a retarded logic buddy

+MrBrenman21 huh so LeBron holding Melo, Granger, and Pierce to all shooting under 40% is not playing both ends of the floor HUH?!!! Also Kobe had low post presence to throw it to wither its Shaq, Gasol, or Bynum. And LeBron plays in a MUCH MORE HIGH PACED ERA GTFO YA DUMB BITCH

+MrBrenman21 he was also not 31 and was not playing as much for the beginning of his career

+IM REALLY BOUT TO GETCHA YA exactly good catch bruh jeep telling FACTS hold this W fam

You disappoint me black Jesus

Seriously, those standards are ridiculous.

but if player and coach does not get along well, it better make some change soon. we do not want see players are a mess during playoff. then it is too late.

***** so if that is the standard then it's fine if 29 coaches will be fired each year

Lebron wants more control over the team

+Jovante Campbell That's because he had players that were willing to accept new changes to their roles (ex: Shawn Livingston, and Andre Iguodala).

+protectyaneck__ Hopefully in a better situation. Not this bullshit

+protectyaneck__ no, just scorch the cavs

+Abdiel Neris he made do with what he had. He was content in sitting it out 3-4 years with a youth rebuild. But when Lebron came back the franchise went with a win now approach and tried to get available talent to make it work. You think Dellavedova wasn't part of Blatt's development? And when the Cavs started reaching for more vet starts to shore things up in the depth chart of course you can't develop them since they damn already peaked. The only thing you are right in is he effectively lost the team in the long run. Since the team really lives and dies with Lebron.

+Abdiel Neris hard to control a locker room when lebron is huffing and puffing back stage and overriding his decisions. He bitching him in front of everybody so no one really takes him seriously.

+protectyaneck__ A move to the T'Wolves would probably allow him to wreak havoc on the league in 3 or so years.

Please this video gives zero context at all. You can pull 10 plays out of 100 every game for every player to prove your desired point.

+Henry Kidd I guarantee you cannot find more than 1 play for any Spurs player giving that lack of effort during a game, because they would be buried underneath the bench if they did

+Henry Kidd neither lebrons disrespect to blatt nor his bad defence can be called 10plays out of 100 games sorta things, especially as the best player on the team

Kd's done it, KLove, Kyrie, Curry, Boogie lets keep going? These players usually are lost on defense with the exception of some who have improved now but there are clips of players like Boogie who doesnt even guard his man, curry used to get bullied and didnt know who to pickup if you watched his old games theres a reason why the warriors never amounted to anything until the emergence of their offensive sets combo'ed with the addition of many great defensive players to cover for the weaker defenders. Klove still cant play defense i dont even wanna talk about that... these are all the leaders of their once respective teams and they would sometimes just stand around rather than contest there are clips everywhere if you would like to look into them.

+Thai Ngo It's true that many players, especially stars with a heavy offensive load, don't play defense often times. However, Kevin Love's problem isn't necessarily effort, it's skill. He was certainly trying to think ahead on that Green pick, but was fooled. He tried to recovered by was way too late. He gave effort out there, he's just bad on defense. What Lebron is doing in the clips shown is not even give effort. Note his lack of doing much of anything in the clips shown. He wasn't running around like the Love, he was taking it easy. If we hadn't gotten so much seemingly accurate information about Lebron hating Blatt and wanting other coaches, then we would have no reason to speculate. Lebron reportedly never liking his coach, not making much effort to buy in, etc gives us reason to speculate.

Did you not listen to what coach said..hes always good on d..He just happened to be upset at blatt which is why he lacked effort the game.

+chuchioner Being upset is one thing. Systematically refusing to play the game to make the coach look bad is another.

+chuchioner always good on d? It's not just these few games when he's upset, he's been incredibly lazy defensively since about 2014

+Charles White 3:40 YOU WOT

+Jonah Qi Facts. I'm still stunned that he let Kawhi Leonard put up 23 PPG on 69%FG in the last three games of the '14 Finals. It's not just a lack of effort, he's clearly lost a step.

hes also the PG and PF

+NY101jah and Center...and Off Guard...

lebron can play all five position.

+Kai Liu true, if the cavs are happy with being 2nd at best.

+rahowhero actually he is no centre, but can play the other 4.

Just checking in

One a championship

Although I'd rather see him join the Clippers staff, he'd do well with the Rockets roster too. The only problem I see is Dwight. He sulks like LeBron a lot.

Fuck no i wouldnt.

+jason jasonson he could join as a defensive assitant

Miltonman100 yeah i would take him as an assistant but not as a head coach. He isnt a leader of men. You need a leader of men to be successful.. look at the great coaches Phil Jackson Pat Riley Greg Popovich Doc Rivers etc etc all great leaders of men... sure thye have strategies but what they do best is get the most out of each player.. something David Blatt is not capable of.

+Miltonman100 Blatt would have the same problems on the Rockets as he did on the Cavs. The "leader" of the Rockets is a subpar defender who has shown lack of effort and other guys on the team, like Dwight, have other attitude problems. Although they'd probably be more likely to try out Blatt's offense, they can't be a contender with the attitude issues.

Nah Chomps

@@dinospumoni56113/4 losses, not great

30-12 very trash. They might as well tank. Right ?

+randomcommeentguy 655 they're not winning shit, they have an aging star, fired a good coach, crappy contracts with thompson and love. they're screwed. i would've much rather had wiggins and irving and build a legit team around them from the ground up, like the warriors did with their team.

+ZombieZifiction its good that wiggins got traded. 1. Wiggins played SF and does not have a jumper, they would surely clash. Besides, Wiggins would not get much exposure and chances if they didn't trade him for love. I hope Love will be utilise to the fullest now...

+Jason Saw they might've won last year with wiggins. kevin love is a defensive liability and isn't clutch and also injury prone

+randomcommeentguy 655 the only consolation they get is they are handed keys to the finals for another 3-4 years. The difference is that the Warriors and Spurs aren't going away in those 3-4 years. Unless both of those teams suffered catastrophic injuries to their key stars, the Finals is going to the West in the coming years.

Exactly 😂😂😂😂

😂😂😂😂

but if the chemistry of the team is getting worse. player and coach does not get along well. player does not listen to coach. things will only get worse. if it does not work well, time to make some change.

Kai Liu and who's fault is it they can't listen to the coach?

Lebron said perfectly, it's not about wins. He's been on teams that won 55 plus games and at the end of the year couldn't win it all because of the intangible they were lacking, and he could sense that this team as it is and was not mentally there and would not be with Blatt.

Henry Kidd well that's because Lebron never respected or accepted Blatt in the first place.

+Creative exactly. Coach Nick said this when Lebron joined the cavs, that if Lebron, being the best player on the team bought into blatts system, the rest of the team would too. However, he has gone and done the exact opposite, shoving blatt aside, making it impossible for the rest of the team to respect blatt

The worse part is LeBron never respected him from the beginning nor ever gave him the chance. David Griffin should’ve backed his coach up and told LeBron to shove it like Pat Riley did.

+hammerandclaw Agreed except for one thing, I think his championship window is gone. Unless he magically learns how to shoot, given how much he uses the ball, no way the Cavs beat Spurs, Warriors or Thunder. And if he signs max 5 year 140 million this summer or w/e it's projected to be... lol he should be happy with 2

+Patrick Ikhena Quite possibly yeah. His athleticism has definitely declined since he left Miami and his jump shot isn't good enough to compensate. His defense is also a real problem. In fact the team defense as a whole is a real problem. They need to trade Kevin Love - though I'm not sure who will take him with his big contract.

+hammerandclaw I dispise people like you who say stuff without really thinking about it. Before Lebron went to the Cavs the team was predicted to be complete crap and be in rebuild mode with the first pick in Wiggins. Then LeBron joins because he wants to win a chip in Cleveland and they have to switch that rebuild mentality in to contendending for a title, thus trading for a proven player in Love. Letting Thompson go when you're trying to win a championship would be retarded. I'd be like the MJ bulls letting go of Rodman when MJ was all about winning.

+Plague Doc Oh please. Thompson is nowhere near Rodman's level. They gave him all that money and he's averaging, what, 8 rebounds? He can't score and he can't pass. And Love was never a good fit for that team -- he's a sieve on defense and isn't doing anything offensively other than shooting 3s. They may as well have got someone like Ryan Anderson if that was what they wanted. Tell me, do you really think this is a championship calibre team?

Plague Doc It's not just the fact that Thompson is basically Love's backup, doesn't start and earns more money than Draymond Green. That's actually true, let's just dwell on that for a second.... But they had already paid Varejao, and were committed to playing Love the max, and yet still went ahead and paid Thompson like he's the best PF in the game. Now they have no cap space, heavy luxury tax and can't sign anyone of note even if Lebron came to his senses and took a moderate pay cut. With the tv money coming in, this was the one season that you need cap space, maybe not enough to offer the max, but definitely more than the vereran's minimum and mid level exception that the Cavs have

+Mr scar well I think we all know that DisESPN is for idiot.s

+Mr scar Lebron has good defense but over the past year and a half i've seen major inconsistency with him! You can have all the defense in the world but if you dont display it 9/10 times or at least 8/10 times then this will happen! Right now i see him play 6/10 times and that is not good enough!

Waddup Is like lebron owns espen

Right on, and coach was willing to say what we're all thinking.... The team quit. All the NBA tv analysts guys won't dare say that. They just drink the cool aid and keep patting lebron on the back

+Lior Zisman I hope another team in the East gets spot #1. That will be a good revenge for Coach Blatt.

Lol

Lebron will take blame too but I agree

+zero All the players thought they were being called in to hear that Love had been traded...

+zero not necessarily a bad thing for love, i bet he wants out of his situation

+zero I think they'll keep him and if they don't win a championship he'll get traded. Perhaps even if Cavs go on a losing streak.

+BBALLBREAKDOWN Hey coach, I was wondering if you could do a video on why kevin durant is not scoring enough 40+ points as he use to in previous seasons. I have only seen him score one 40+ this season. Has he declined or is it coach Donovan's system?

+Vicente Santiago Thanks!!

Damn good video, gave me the chills

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+BBALLBREAKDOWN you think you can do a video on the way the Thunder have been playing during this win streak?

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+Kariem Abozyid Do you think these videos take 10 minutes to make? No, he sits down and scours game film and then goes to editing which is just as time consuming. He's doing all that without a single penny from any of us but the bills are still there. On top of that there's a slider bar that lets you skip the start if you don't want to watch them ads. Think about his circumstances before you talk shit about the man's way of making a living.

+BBALLBREAKDOWN It doesn't seem like all your videos are on your website, though. I would use your website, otherwise. If I visit the site and go to "Videos", I can't find any of the most recent videos on the front page. In fact, it gives me links to podcasts and articles, which is really odd considering it says "VIDEOS" in all caps at the top. Because of things like that, the site is too awkward to navigate, imo. I mean no disrespect, simply trying to share my experience with the website in order to help you guys keep improving. I have a very old smartphone (so it's even doubtful I could even install it) and really need all the memory space I can get, so I'm not in the position to download and use the app.

Exactly

+TeamRetroVideos Bring in Bobby Knight!!!!!!!!

+TeamRetroVideos whats stopping him from boycotting Tibs if he feels he's being played too many minutes?

+TeamRetroVideos well...you gotta bring a coach that proves himself worthy to coach LBJ, as he's not your average player hahahaha. Too bad tho they signed Lue..

Fuck no that would be some shit if Cavs got thibs

I don't watch all the cavs games but I think delly is not a good starting player. He may be a change of pace type guy but it seems like he just passes the ball to lebron.

He's an okay playmaker (better than Kyrie in any case), but he does defer to LeBron because LeBron is not somebody you say no to. Delly also likes the team and doesn't want to be traded. If all of the things in my comment happen, then the Cavs can start anew. LeBron needs to stop sulking and become team-oriented again and Delly will flourish even more than he has this season!

+TELEthruVOXx exactly i watch him several times and he is so lost. his instinct are throw lobs to TT teams scout for that look for something else. he is so avergae

akorede oladigbo "Average" and still better than Kyrie, the inefficient chucker who can't play D.

Doc hires blatt for defensive helpful?? Wasnt his defense the issue..stop booty kissing blatt..he had lebron..kyrie..love..tyrone lue to thank for the wins .his impact on that team was minimal..

yawn

+jason jasonson Do you need glasses? If Lebron can't blow by his man or get wide open looks, this is why we laugh at you lebron fans love bringing up stats! To sum it up really quickly, Lebron is overrated.

Stephen Curry There was plenty of one on one, and Lebron can't get the shots he wants. Just like Iggy did. Lebron hates contested shots.

Stephen Curry How about when it counts? :)

Stephen Curry when all the marbles are on the line.

Lebron needs to learn*

+Nicola Montori Thanks! #ImIn

+Olli Järvinen The thunder aren't making that trade, they have one of the highest ppg. They need ibaka way more than another scorer like love

+KobeBryant "Like Ibaka", not "Definitely Ibaka"

+Olli Järvinen I rly like ibaka as a player but i dont think he would solve cavs problems alone

No way are we trading ibaka

+Olli Järvinen They need to learn what coach is and what he supposed to do.Stop finding excuses, everyone knew love was bad defender from his old days.They wanted him anyway

BTW, this is the same thing Harden pulled off against McHale when he wanted him fired. Except that it looked just like Harden's usual D and they were not #1 in their conference, plus they were going downhill.

Well, Coach Blatt wasn't coaching adults in the first place. I understand that the Cavs have potential, but they will always get exposed by teams (such as the GSW and SAS) because they are not willing to to create a TEAM- BASKETBALL-PHILOSOPHY and have players accept their role from their coach. Those players are lucky that they have talent, any other group of players would immediately get benched (if not demoted to the D-League).

Yeah, I made a similar comment, you'll never be able to have a culture like the Spurs if you have such a childish behaviour and this part of LBJ is so overrated, people end up messing how talented he is, maybe even in his understanding of the game with his actual maturity, which he doesn't really have. But in part I get, he grew up in the spotlight and that was never in him nor he had a true example, I guess. I remember a few years ago when I looked at both LBJ and D12, and they were all about joking and goofying around even during games, on the side line. They didn't have that same thing of getting on court and becoming somebody else, like Kobe, KG, etc. they were not focused. It took LBJ too long to add a post up game, imagine if he had worked on that earlier instead of his 5th or 6th year in the league? His mental breakdowns when things are not going well is another proof of his mental weakness when compared to other greats. His breakdown when they lost to the Mavs or any other time. Against the Warriors in the Finals was the first time I saw him giving his all despite things not going that well. It took him 10 years to get to that point. I'm fine with him not being mature or behaving like that, I mean, everybody has flaws, but don't delude yourself or act like you are more than you actually are, don't try to be something else, be more humble and work on it, it's as simple as that. I just think it's stupid when people go all the way to try to be something they are not. No wonder LBJ is always defensive, passive aggressive. And it totally makes sense when they say that Pop likes players that are comfortable within themselves, because by knowing who you are, who knows what you are good at and what you have to work on, you don't try to do more than you can handle and it makes much easier to work as a team.

Only Lebron's fans would bring up this comparison. True nba fans know that Jordan is irreplaceable.

You know LeBron is statistically the greatest player of all time.

+Isaiah Chavez Cavs/BucksFan#day1#24-1#LeBronIsGOAT Does 2-4 in the Finals sound like a great stat compared to Jordan's 6-0? Didn't think so. Even if LeBron is one of the best of all time, I'll always argue that he could've been better if he would've just let himself be coached. Right now he's actually seemingly buying into Lue's philosophy so maybe that will lead somewhere. But no matter how good his stats are, I cannot say LeBron will ever be greater than Jordan purely because LeBron has lost way too many Finals series.

Lebron Has An Insane Basketball IQ

DemiRonin They won it all

***** I can't be bitter because I am not a fan of any team he has ever been a part of.

***** The use of ad homenim doesn't constitute an argument.

***** sure thing mr. crankypants

***** If he was in fact quitting on his coach and dogging it on the court then what I said was completely reasonable and fair. Do you think MJ would ever do that? No way.

And David Blatt still hasn't done shit in the NBA.

@@xaviervega468 He did do shit despite not given a chance from the beginning, winning 2 games with a hurt team while Lue took advantage barely winning in 7 with an injured Bogut, Curry and Draymond being suspended.

Yeah he ruined the team by getting them a championship. Which happened AFTER Blatt was fired. And Blatt STILL doesn't have a job in the NBA.

Why does blatt still don’t have a job if he so good?

@@Ma1q444 he has multiple sclerosis

+Erick Maggerrick Thanks so much!

Mr. starters GOAT!!!!

+Mark Ding haha What's up?

check the analytics please. kawhi statistically is better than lebron thos season. thats why he made that statement

And those games shown was painful to watch af

Do u think basketball is different overseas? The ball is still round, the court still rectangular.

BBALLBREAKDOWN Definitely, they got different rules and different style of playing the ball. I give my utmost respect to overseas because basketball is hard to adjust to if you're playing from overseas to NBA or NBA to overseas.

+BBALLBREAKDOWN Being german i can tell you EuroBall is quite different when it comes to rules like travelling (which is called way more often) and wayyy more based on defense (which might be a point not popular with lbj or other vets during the regular season and unattractive among us nba fans/viewers.) Furthermore run and gun (supposedly lbj's preferred playstyle) is not as popular here in europe as it is in the nba. If you combine that euro-coaching-mentality with the kind of impact lbj has on the entire cavs franchise, things were set to fail sooner or later. However, with the record the cavs had, i did not expect things to escalate that soon. Keep up the good content, #imin

we? you play for the Cavaliers?

They play with girls ball the court is smaller and the three point line is shorter

His rule is definitely absolute lol

Problem is he only makes the Cleveland front office bow to him.