Cavaliers fire coach David Blatt in second season

Van Gundy left a parting shot for the Cavs saying he and other coaches who don’t have conference-best records still have jobs “because our front offices aren’t quite as insane as theirs”.

“I’m embarrassed for our league that something like this could happen”, Carlisle said.

Van Gundy agreed, citing some of the difficulties that Blatt overcame in getting the Cavs to succeed this season.

Now that would make sense, but the Cleveland Cavaliers refuted that claim by telling ESPN that LeBron does not run the organization and he is not the one making these kinds of decisions.

New Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue wants his former boss to be rewarded for what he did this season.

This campaign was another chance for Blatt to help the Cavaliers to the championship stage, but after one and a half season was deprived of that opportunity as he was sacked.

Blatt was sacked on Friday by Cleveland, which entered a Saturday night game against Chicago with the best record (30-11) in the Eastern Conference.

Blatt almost got fired last season when the Cavaliers lost 20 of their first 39 games. “I talked to the guys about just being able to focus on the moment and the process”. So, when guys would do things wrong, me and Blake (Griffin) would get into it. Me and C.P. (Chris Paul).

“I know that sounds insane when we’re sitting with a 30-11 record”. Associate head coach Tyronn Lue has been named head coach. When it’s all said and done, and when you look at the evidence in hand, if Love, LeBron and Kyrie would look like a well-oiled machine, Blatt still probably has a job right now.

A source close to James told the Associated Press that the star didn’t have any inkling that Blatt would be fired until he and his teammates met with Griffin, who said he made the move because he sensed this title-chasing team was disconnected. “He will coach me and push me, and I’ll listen to everything he has to say and go from there”.

Including, if you can believe it, the Cavs’ best player and franchise cornerstone. There are way too many good shooters and scorers on this team. He was previously an assistant coach on Doc Rivers’ staff with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Blatt gets it, anyway, the way Paul Westhead got it in L.A. when Magic Johnson didn’t want him to coach the Lakers, and the way Doug Collins got it in Chicago before they hired Jackson and Michael Jordan went on to win six National Basketball Association championships.

Windhorst detailed a sudden, unannounced change in rotation during Cleveland’s Christmas Day game versus the Golden State Warriors…their biggest matchup of the season to that point.

Although there’s a premium on winning for the Cavs, with LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love, Blatt had a. 675 win percentage and had done well in the regular season.