Mike Brown hired as Head Coach
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this hire comes with a lot of pressure to end the longest playoff drought in NBA history. It's a good start that he is defensive oriented. Even if the offense isn't all that great, if the team can hover in the top 15 range on the defensive side then maybe they can be competitive on a game to game basis. That said, him finishing out his contract would be similar to waiting for Haley's Comet.
I didn’t say he “only won because of LeBron” and wasn’t making any comment on his success or lack of success as a head coach. I was just saying it’s hard to gauge what Brown’s own philosophy, system, or what he can get out of a roster 1-12 is because of how LeBron centric every facet of the Cavs were.
Just about every coach would’ve probably managed the Cavs the same way. It wasn’t a praise or a knock of Brown.
I’m just saying it clouds expectations of what Brown would do with a team where the roles, style of play, rotations, who to run things through are far less defined than a team with LeBron James and limited rotation players. A team like the Kings.
Despite his head coaching experience, I think there is a lot of mystery there. Mystery isn’t good or bad. A lot of us wanted a novice from a staff like Kerr’s, Budenholzers, Udoka’s, etc. but now we got the head assistant of Kerr’s who actually does have a lot of head coaching experience at the highest level, but for some reason feels almost as mysterious as if it had been Darvin Ham.
I think this has been the prevailing thought around the league as well. Mike Brown wasn’t able to establish an identity as a head coach to where teams thought they knew what they were getting out of a Mike Brown led team. Whats the system of a Mike Brown team? We know the Cavs probably aren’t the template GM’s think of because there’s only one LeBron. So teams looked elsewhere. Otherwise a coach with his postseason and finals experience wouldn’t have nearly a decade separating head coaching jobs. I don’t think it’s because they thought “well, he can’t win without LeBron” but more that there isn’t a good complete feel/data for Mike Brown as a head coach without LeBron.
Just about every coach would’ve probably managed the Cavs the same way. It wasn’t a praise or a knock of Brown.
I’m just saying it clouds expectations of what Brown would do with a team where the roles, style of play, rotations, who to run things through are far less defined than a team with LeBron James and limited rotation players. A team like the Kings.
Despite his head coaching experience, I think there is a lot of mystery there. Mystery isn’t good or bad. A lot of us wanted a novice from a staff like Kerr’s, Budenholzers, Udoka’s, etc. but now we got the head assistant of Kerr’s who actually does have a lot of head coaching experience at the highest level, but for some reason feels almost as mysterious as if it had been Darvin Ham.
I think this has been the prevailing thought around the league as well. Mike Brown wasn’t able to establish an identity as a head coach to where teams thought they knew what they were getting out of a Mike Brown led team. Whats the system of a Mike Brown team? We know the Cavs probably aren’t the template GM’s think of because there’s only one LeBron. So teams looked elsewhere. Otherwise a coach with his postseason and finals experience wouldn’t have nearly a decade separating head coaching jobs. I don’t think it’s because they thought “well, he can’t win without LeBron” but more that there isn’t a good complete feel/data for Mike Brown as a head coach without LeBron.
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At best, Davion can be elite guarding 1-2. 3s? Some, but ineffective against the KD types. 4 and 5 are pipe dreams. Draymond can defend 1-5. So even if Davion is an outlier, I think he is, his impact is still pretty much limited to the perimeter. So no matter how great Davion is defensively, still can’t play that Draymond role where you got a dude that can defend every inch of the defensive half court.
I mean welcome coach Mike Brown
A "meh" pick for me.
I think he's a ways behind Malone and Joerger for the best coaching hires since Adelman but firmly in front of the likes of Walton, Gentry, Smart, Westphal etc.
I'd still rather have a "nobody" young coaching assistant but he's the lesser of some of the evils we saw in Jackson and D'Antoni. Not that D'Antoni is a bad coach but our roster doesn't fit what he likes to do so it's just not a fit.
I think he's a ways behind Malone and Joerger for the best coaching hires since Adelman but firmly in front of the likes of Walton, Gentry, Smart, Westphal etc.
I'd still rather have a "nobody" young coaching assistant but he's the lesser of some of the evils we saw in Jackson and D'Antoni. Not that D'Antoni is a bad coach but our roster doesn't fit what he likes to do so it's just not a fit.
