Cavs fire Lue after 0-6 start

 Pretty wrong of Cleveland.  They should have fired him this summer so he had a chance at another job if he wasn’t their guy.  You don’t fire a coach 6 games in when your team lost Lebron and has no expectations for the year.

 Reports I read said that his loyalty to play vets was one source of problems with upper management. If they are going to rebuild, you have to run your young guys full out. They were never going to make the playoffs, so play the young’uns and let ’em run. Love is a shell of his former self, George Hill shouldn’t be a starter at this point (even with his 19 mil salary). I say run out a line-up of Sexton, Clarkson, Osman/Hood, Nance and Zizic and see what happens. At the least get them experience and see what you really have.

That said, CoachWyers has a good point about the timing.

I’m not even that big on Lue as a coach, but I’ll take him over Donovan in OKC. Heck, I’ll take most high school coaches over Donovan at this point. Hopefully with OKC’s slow start Donovan gets canned soon too.

But yeah the Cavs did him dirty, they should have done this during the offseason, I don’t know what they realistically expected. Love was good for like 2 seasons in Minnesota and he’s been a scrub since, he cannot carry a team and he’s injured every other game.

 Cavs real coach Left for LA in July!! 

Danny Gilbert said he wanted Lebron to leave so he could have his team back. I guess he loves losing, love having to sell Tickets for $2, having a carivan of gms and coaches in 13 years and having a Front Row seat at the Lottery Drawing!! I never Was High on Lue’s coaching skills. But According to reports Lue will receive a 13 Million dollar Buyout. That’s a Great Incentive for Not having to work for Danny Boy anymore!

 utters a single complaint – show’s for work on a team run by a clueless owner who Fires a veteran Title winning GM & promotes a kid who promptly trades Kyrie Irving – a probably Hall of Fame Star & a Key piece of the Only NBA Title in Franchise history – for a Draft pick & an undersized, Severely injured guard about to be a Unrestricted Free Agent 

If Bryan Colangelo wasn’t Destroying the Sixers we’d have spent a Lot more attention on how Horrific this trade truly was

Anyway, Lue deals w/ all this incompetance around him but shows up for work, gives 100%, coaches up the guys he has & his reward for Integrity & Consistency is a classless owner who is the laughing stock of the entire NBA shitting on him & trying to make Lue the scape goat for the downfall of the Franchise 

I gotta believe that when Tyron Lue got that Phone call that he was fired he broke out into a smile that would light the Times Square Christmas Tree! 

Congrats Ty Lue b/c you have been emancipated from that truely ridiculous team Owner – go forth & prosper somewhere else & enjoy your freedom from Dan Gilbert 

 I’d probably be relieved if I’m Tyronn Lue. He still gets his money and won’t have to coach this bum team.

 I don’t understand what the Cavs were thinking when they resigned Kevin Love to such a big deal, it was clear to everyone except them the Cavs would be pretty awful this year. They should probably start their fire sale soon, I’m sure some teams would happily take a few of their pieces like Kyle Korver for the right price. The hard part is they overpaid so many role players to make LeBron happy and those contracts will likely be hard to move.

 Love cant put enormous stat lines like he did in Minnesota. He is way too soft now. They gotta get rid of him as soon as possible before his contract becomes untradable that is if its not already

 Only other coach to take over a team mid season & win an NBA Title besides Ty Lue was Pat Riley 

The pressure this guy was under & how expertly he handled it was remarkable – Lue was fantastic under pressure, out of Time outs late in games when the pressure was greatest

That 2016 Title run where they roar back from a 3-1 deficit agaiunst a 73 win Golden State team was All Time Legendary stuff & Lue was right in the middle of it 

People forget David Blatt – who is a good coach but he was managing one game at a time, unable to think long term – that Cleveland team was not winning a Title under Blatt & they knew it (to their credit) b/c it was a Massive risk switching coaches at the 1/2 way point w/ a 30-11 record 

Diff coaches function better under diff circumstances – young teams need a teacher, middling teams need a steady hand who is a solid coach & can win you & extra 2 or 3 games, potential Title winning coaches need to be Great at adjustments In games while building to peek in the playoffs & they need to be part Psychiatrist to manage the Ego’s – it’s the hardest thing to do in coaching b/c it is So rare to be in that situation – Very few coaches ever are

I really hope Lue gets the credit he deserves in retrospect that he really did not get while he was there in Cleveland 

 I keep hearing the rumor they wanted him to play young guys more, and I’m trying to figure out who that would be — there are no young guys.

What a sh!t show.

I will always be a David Blatt apologist; I’m thankful for my championship, but Blatt had an injured Kyrie and Love in the ’15 Finals, otherwise he’d have won a championship, too. And certainly Lue would not have won it in 2015 with those injuries. Once KD went to GS, neither Blatt nor Lue were going to win one.

I knew the self-delusion of believing they’d be competitive with these veterans would unravel quickly, and that most of the season would be time for Sexton, Cedi, and Nance to get reps. They just need an infusion of talent. I was thinking Romeo Langford at 5-6ish, but they might be bad enough to land RJ or Zion.

So who should Dan Gilbert hire? It’ll be Larry Drew for the rest of this season, and beyond that, I think his top target is Jay Larranaga, but will also consider Ettore Messina. Personally I’m quite fond of John Beilein, but the Pistons might have been his only look.

Ty Lue won a title as a coach and will get a thumping pay off. When a team goes to being a rebuilding team he suddenly doesn’t become a dud coach if results go wrong.

It’s not a great time to replace a coach, Larry Drew might be a safe pair of hands to keep the team ticking over this year and if the wish is that he play the younger guys then he can do that. The Cavs with a good pick next summer would be an attractive option for a young college coach or a top assistant taking a first job.