Is Cavs coach Mike Brown to blame for these 2 losses?

Question

I don't think entirely. His guys had no aggression in the first three quarters. If your guys don't show up til the 4th quarter and want to finally play as the deserving Eastern Conference Champs then your doomed. But with all that it really comes down to the X's and O's and Mike Brown:

1. No to Hughes, yes to Gibson-
2. Lebron on the bench 4 minutes into the game
3. No boxing out Spurs for rebounds.
4. 1 pass and shoot
5. No counter plan for when Lebron gets doubled every possession.
6. Not attacking Tim Duncan in the paint and try getting him into foul trouble.
7. Letting Tony Parker just do what he wants up and down the court.
8. The last gasp run just helped the Spurs headed into game 3

Answer 1

"Young" Coach and Young team. This finals is going to be a learning experience. The Defense under Brown is definately good now they need to find a identiy on offense other than just give Lebron the ball. Cavs also need a true presence inside that can complete with a Duncan and that Lebron can play off of.

Answer 2

Well, here goes...
1.Who should he play, the veteran who's also the best defender on the team, or the rookie who can't really play defense but gets away with it because he's on the same team as Lebron? Let's not forget that Larry Hughes is hurt but still playing.
2.Lebron was on the bench four minutes into the game because he had two fouls...Mike Brown had no choice.
3.When you ahve nothing but shooters on the court how are you gonna rebound? The Cavs are the best offensive rebounding team in the league but they can't seem to rebound this series. Do you punish all of the other coaches in the league when the Cavs get twelve a game against them?
4.It seems that cleveland gets into trouble when they pass too much, or did you not see all the interceptions in the first two games?
5.They have a counter plan when Lebron gets doubled, he either makes a bad pass that get's picked off or the wide open player misses a wide open shot.
6.How do you get Duncan in foul trouble? Do you not remember the NBA's reaction to Duncan getting thrown out by Crawford? He's the NBA's golden boy, believe it!
7.Name one guard in the NBA that can stop Tony Parker from doing whatever he wants. Is that guard on the Cavs?
8.Stop listening to the talking heads on the television and think for yourself. We don't know that that run will help the Spurs for game three and what should he have done? Should he have pulled the starters and mailed it in for game three? Then you'd just be complaining about a thirty point loss instead of 9.

The truth is that Mike Brown is the worst coach in basketball, absolutely, but that's not the reason the Cav's are down 2-0 in the series. they're down because the so-called King is playing like crap, or are you blaming Mike Brown for lebron's eleven turnovers in two games, his terrible shooting, and turnstile defense on Ginobili? Ginobili by the way had the same amount of points as Lebron but took ten less shots. Step up Cleveland fans and blame you so-called superstar for not stepping up and playing like one. The next Michael Jordan huh?

Answer 3

No. Whoever signed Larry Hughes to the $66 million dollar contract is to blame. Even healthy, he has been a total bust for the Cavs. Now that he's not healthy, he can't even defend, normally his strong suit.

Mike Brown took a team who played poor defense two years ago, and now they are in the NBA Finals. Mike Brown is not a poor coach;he just doesn't have enough offensive weapons to compete with the Spurs. Think of how pathetic the Cavs would be if Paul Silas was still the coach. They have OVERACHIEVED THIS YEAR UNDER MIKE BROWN, but now are against a team that has won 3 titles in the last 7 years.

Need I remind Spurs fans your team would be looking up at half the western conference if David Robinson hadn't gotten hurt, enabling San Antonio to get the the lucky ping pong ball bounce to draft Tim Duncan. Of course, the Cavs fans have to admit the same about Lebron.

Answer 4

U have to blame him and the players ,but him more for leaving Larry Hughes in, shooting 1-10 and cant move on his foot.He is said to gonna talk to brown before game 3 and tell him weither he can still go.Either way id start Gibson, 15 and 14 points in the first two games. Rebound better, defend better,stop manu,parker and tim. Guard the 3 point line.Lebron needs 3 point shooters like he did in 4th quarter.Also hit free throws and play offense ,meaning make te spurs work attack duncan and oberto.Id dont think it will matter what they do this series is over in 5 and im being nice to give cleveland a win cuz the spurs are a better team at every position but one.

Answer 5

NO..... its simple.. no matter who Coach brown would have sub... or made Lebron played all 48 min... they still would have lost by 10+ regardless.... Spurs just are a MUCH MUCH MUCH better team than the Cavs. Lebron just lucky till now.. playing the arena/butless less wizards.. playing the below .500 team NETS (Carter sucks btw) and then getting really really lucky with the pistons... they finally ran into a LEGIT team.. a brick wall... Cavs will be 0-4.
To help Lebron and thus young team the cavs need to being in Coach LArry Brown.

Answer 6

I don't think you can blame the coach for this one. Didn't we all see this coming. I mean, as much as I hate the Spurs they are better that than the Cavs at every position but one. They're just a better team with certainly a better coach, but you can't blame Mike Brown for the losses. You should probably blame the Spurs.

Answer 7

I don't think he is the cavs played good they just need to play harder if they wanna at least win 1 game but you have to think the spurs are great lebron need to play harder and so does everyone else on the team lebron's the king (says everyone) he needs to step it up he's not scoring like were use to seeing but im all for the spurs

Answer 8

well kinda bcuz i think that he puts the wrng ppl in the game at the wrong tymes. I think he shuld replace james w/ gibson bcuz of the way lebron has been plying with the turnovers and stuff. I think he needs to look at the better defenders instead of the scorers bcuz offense iz the thing that iz just supposed to come to the player. Defense is the thing that will keep the other team from gettin ahead.

Answer 9

He's part but not the entire reason, but yeah he's been a deer in headlights in the playoffs. Poor bench management and decisions to leave Hughes in for too long.

Answer 10

No it's Lebron