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Originally Posted by pgardn
In order to assess coaches you have to watch them a while. I have seen the Cavs do not have any sort of theme to their offense. Its very disorganized. They space poorly. Rely totally on athletic talent. Detroit is just getting older physically. Although Saunders has much more depth than Brown had. Popovich has a great player to run things off of, and he sticks to what his players do best. If they did not win utilizing their players to the fullest, he would be called bad. Sloan has always got competitive teams. I just wonder if he "Bill Parcells" them a bit too much. Hell Van Gundy is a very good coach imo. He just lost a tough series.
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They space ok. The problem is they can't shoot. When they shoot "ok" they do well. How many wide open 15 footers did Gooden get last night?? I wouldn't exactly call Ilgauskas "athletic"...nor Snow or even Verajao or Gooden. Although Gooden and Verajao are decent athletes for big men, I wouldn't necessarily call them any more athletic than Detroit's bigs of McDyess, or Wallace or Maxiell. Pavlovic is athletic...but come on is he more athletic than Prince??
The problem is that their scorer, is also really their only playmaker...set up man..."James". Snow is the only "true" point guard on that team and he is too old and simply doesn't see the floor like James does...this forces them to use James as not only "scorer" but also "playmaker". So I think when offensive stagnation occurs is when LeBron is handling point duties which often happens...but good things also come from this strategy...ie the 4th quarters of the last two games.
I think saying they rely totally on athletic is over-simplifying it tremendously. LeBron is perhaps one of the most gifted athletes ever...but after him I really don't think their athleticism is anything but pretty typical for the positions they play. And in some cases less than normal....(Snow, Ilgauskas).
Brown is a defense first coach I agree with and that is his emphasis...but I think the lack of a point guard forces James to be sort of a grab-bag type player...someone forced to play point more than he probably should. And that at times bogs down their offense.