mreinman wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:The Bulls are tied up with the Cavs when they are holding Lebron to what seems an all time worse in efficiency, Irvin hurt, Love out, and JR missing two games. That is not a good sign at all.

+1000

not a good sign at all.

And, the cavs REALLY miss Love.

knickscity wrote:

callmened wrote:this should be a new rule: during ref replays, both teams CANT go to sidelines to talk to coaches...instead they MUST stay inside half court circle. if teammates talk, at least the other team will hear it...therefore NO advantage

This is silly.

CrushAlot wrote:

knickscity wrote:

callmened wrote:this should be a new rule: during ref replays, both teams CANT go to sidelines to talk to coaches...instead they MUST stay inside half court circle. if teammates talk, at least the other team will hear it...therefore NO advantage

This is silly.

I disagree. If Cleveland had to inbound with 1.5 seconds without the chance for the coach to draw up a play LeBron probably doesn't get a good shot off. The stoppage of play influenced the outcome of the game.

Like I said, this is silly.

CrushAlot wrote:

knickscity wrote:

callmened wrote:this should be a new rule: during ref replays, both teams CANT go to sidelines to talk to coaches...instead they MUST stay inside half court circle. if teammates talk, at least the other team will hear it...therefore NO advantage

This is silly.

I disagree. If Cleveland had to inbound with 1.5 seconds without the chance for the coach to draw up a play LeBron probably doesn't get a good shot off. The stoppage of play influenced the outcome of the game.

you object to the free timeout as a negative side effect of the positive rule of being able to review the play, but only when a team has expended them all. i don't have a problem with that but what is your solution?

GustavBahler wrote:

dk7th wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:I get the feeling that LeBron will give Gilbert "its either me or Blatt" if they don't win it all. Thought he would do a better job. Im guessing Lue will be the next coach.

not a fair ultimatum when you are without kevin love, who, presumably, lebron himself gm'd.

I believe that LeBron would rather see Lue as coach. This isn't the first time that Lue has covered for Blatt. LeBron had his dust ups with Spoelstra, but he seemed to have more respect for him as a coach.

Blatt actually tried to sideline LeBron in crunch time with the series on the line by making him inbound the ball. That's crazy and a really bad idea for a rookie coach to do with a player of LeBron's stature and influence. Might not be fair but Blatt isn't exactly making a case for himself right now.

wow i didn't know that! how did you suss that out? i watched a bunch of the post game and from what i got from blatt's postgame was that lebron "took the check" on the dinner. you understood something different, apparently, but what's your source?

dk7th wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

dk7th wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:I get the feeling that LeBron will give Gilbert "its either me or Blatt" if they don't win it all. Thought he would do a better job. Im guessing Lue will be the next coach.

not a fair ultimatum when you are without kevin love, who, presumably, lebron himself gm'd.

I believe that LeBron would rather see Lue as coach. This isn't the first time that Lue has covered for Blatt. LeBron had his dust ups with Spoelstra, but he seemed to have more respect for him as a coach.

Blatt actually tried to sideline LeBron in crunch time with the series on the line by making him inbound the ball. That's crazy and a really bad idea for a rookie coach to do with a player of LeBron's stature and influence. Might not be fair but Blatt isn't exactly making a case for himself right now.

wow i didn't know that! how did you suss that out? i watched a bunch of the post game and from what i got from blatt's postgame was that lebron "took the check" on the dinner. you understood something different, apparently, but what's your source?

That's what Brian Windhorst said. He said that Blatt drew up that play and LeBron said "no, give me the ball!." He said of Blatt's late game miscues, that he never seen anything like it in his years covering the league. He usually is pretty spot on when it comes to LeBron. Windhorst gets a lot of flak for being so closely tied to James, but he is a good writer/analyst IMO.

GustavBahler wrote:

dk7th wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

dk7th wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:I get the feeling that LeBron will give Gilbert "its either me or Blatt" if they don't win it all. Thought he would do a better job. Im guessing Lue will be the next coach.

not a fair ultimatum when you are without kevin love, who, presumably, lebron himself gm'd.

I believe that LeBron would rather see Lue as coach. This isn't the first time that Lue has covered for Blatt. LeBron had his dust ups with Spoelstra, but he seemed to have more respect for him as a coach.

Blatt actually tried to sideline LeBron in crunch time with the series on the line by making him inbound the ball. That's crazy and a really bad idea for a rookie coach to do with a player of LeBron's stature and influence. Might not be fair but Blatt isn't exactly making a case for himself right now.

wow i didn't know that! how did you suss that out? i watched a bunch of the post game and from what i got from blatt's postgame was that lebron "took the check" on the dinner. you understood something different, apparently, but what's your source?

That's what Brian Windhorst said. He said that Blatt drew up that play and LeBron said "no, give me the ball!." He said of Blatt's late game miscues, that he never seen anything like it in his years covering the league. He usually is pretty spot on when it comes to LeBron. Windhorst gets a lot of flak for being so closely tied to James, but he is a good writer/analyst IMO.

if this is an accurate portrayal of what actually went down then kudos to blatt for acquiescing to an all-time great.