re: The Ty Lue potential Head Coach Thread

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Cavs organization who would try keep Lebron in line, infamously telling him to "shut the frick up" in a huddle.

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You might of convinced me here

Seems to me that a 43 year old who is a strong Xs and Os guy with a high basketball IQ has room to grow in the future if all those things are actually true.

I wasn’t insinuating they were good players, simply that I knew who the next “best” players were after Iverson.
I guess this is a fitting gif for this thread.

Are the pelicans at all considering Sam cassel?

I would love Sam Cassell. That’s my real top choice.

Don’t know why people aren’t more interested In him. I’d love to have him or Kenny Atkinson developing yalls young players. Plus I think he could recruit a great coaching staff around him

That's one thing that the next coach needs to do here - develop a culture. We have very young future stars that need a culture and structure. That was one positive about Rivers. Who would fit that bill?

So KOC says the Clippers are going to take their time with their search and they want to swing for the fences. A Coach K type of splash hire. He feels like if they really wanted Lue, he'd be hired already. Only took Doc 3 days to get a job.

So what does that mean for Lue, and for us? Does Lue, and by extension Griffin, wait around while Ballmer swings for the fences to see if he comes back around to Lue? Does Lue take a sure job here? Does Griff end up in another holding pattern waiting for Lue? First the bubble, now the Clippers timeline.

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Guys like Kevin Love and Richard Jefferson have raved about his Basketball IQ and think very highly of him as a coach.

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i will trust both b/c they're both very intelligent guys

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His teams play Defense.

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this is important, too

Ty Lue’s Defenses

15-16(split with Blatt): 10th ranked defense
16-17: 21st ranked defense
17-18: 29th ranked defense

Every year his defenses got worse and worse.

Ty Lue was not really a defensive coach. His contribution was pace and space. He got the Cavs to load up the score board and out score other teams. That’s what he brought. Defense? Never really saw that in their identity. Blatt actually had the team playing better defense before he was canned.

His offenses were top 5 in offensive rating, and that was largely how the roster was constructed, and that’s largely what his lineups and rotations focused on doing. That was also why he was initially praised after the shift by pundits and Lebron, for modernizing the offense. At one point threatening Houston with most attempted threes for some stretches.