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Looks Like Beilein May Be Let Go.............Soon

Adrian Wojnarowski
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Reporting with @WindhorstESPN: Cavaliers and John Beilein have discussed possibility of him stepping down as coach during the NBA All-Star Break. No decision’s been reached. After signing 5-year deal to leave Michigan, Beilein’s struggled w/ transition to NBA.
 
I can't say I'm surprised but I was obviously rooting for the guy to succeed.
 
Sadly, this isn't that surprising. Cleveland has the worst owner in the NBA, maybe the worst owner in the four major sports. Their roster is complete garbage. They don't have a single player that anyone would want to see on their favorite team's roster. Those shitty NBA players have been pissing and moaning through the season about having to watch too much film and having to practice too much. It became pretty apparent this wasn't going to work out.

Unless Cleveland falls into the #1 spot in the draft for 2-3 years in a row, and gets a generational talent with one of those picks, they're going to be bad for as long as Gilbert owns them.
 
247 sport is spinning it that JB May want to step away after the season ends.
 
thewolverines24 said:
Those shitty NBA players have been pissing and moaning through the season about having to watch too much film and having to practice too much. It became pretty apparent this wasn't going to work out.
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Some of that falls on the coaching for not understanding what the NBA and players are all about. The players are mostly entitled millionaires. JB was used to coaching hungry college players. He needed to adapt to who he was coaching and apparently he didn't or wasn't willing.
 
This had "failure" written all over it sadly. That's extremely difficult to transition from 40 years or so of college coaching to the NBA in the twilight of your career. Feel bad for the guy, but it was his choice.
 
it's kinda of ironic, because on another board I post on, when he left UM, the "old bitchy white guy" portion of our fanbase blamed "players these days not staying and doing the hard work"... even though JB stayed through several years of early departures, and it was a lot worse in the past.

I argued it was probably more likely he was sick of the corruption in the college game and didn't want to tolerate it anymore, and they jumped all over me.

well, I guess the players were actually worse in the pros...
 
tomdalton22 said:
Some of that falls on the coaching for not understanding what the NBA and players are all about. The players are mostly entitled millionaires. JB was used to coaching hungry college players. He needed to adapt to who he was coaching and apparently he didn't or wasn't willing.
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He is coaching the worst roster in the NBA. He had to try and make the Cleveland clown show better. Obviously none of the players on that roster are overly concerned with that. They are fine with sucking.

I have no idea why anyone would take that job after JB is gone. It's hopeless.
 
thewolverines24 said:
He is coaching the worst roster in the NBA. He had to try and make the Cleveland clown show better. Obviously none of the players on that roster are overly concerned with that. They are fine with sucking.

I have no idea why anyone would take that job after JB is gone. It's hopeless.
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he knew that they sucked when he took the job, he just didn't know how hard it would be to coach NBA players.

There will be coaches lining up to take the job...$5M per year is a pretty good gig.
 
tomdalton22 said:
he knew that they sucked when he took the job, he just didn't know how hard it would be to coach NBA players.

There will be coaches lining up to take the job...$5M per year is a pretty good gig.
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Oh I know there will be coaches there to take it. Money talks. Each of them will end up fired because Gilbert is terrible and Cleveland is going to be terrible unless they luck into another LeBron level guy in the draft. Everyone on their current roster sucks at the NBA level.
 
thewolverines24 said:
Oh I know there will be coaches there to take it. Money talks. Each of them will end up fired because Gilbert is terrible and Cleveland is going to be terrible unless they luck into another LeBron level guy in the draft. Everyone on their current roster sucks at the NBA level.
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Please mind your words; Dan Gilbert is a billionaire, and therefore we know he is a shrewd genius and earned his money by being smarter and working harder than everyone poorer than him. He could teach you a thing or two about running a basketball team.
 
Well, Gilbert got Cleveland a title. So he did so something right by surrounding Lebron with the guys needed to win it. After it all went to shit, he probably hired JB because JB could get the best out of people with limited talent. He thought that would translate to a .500 team and then adding players down the line to get to the next level. However, it probably wasn't ever considered how JB's coaching style would translate to professional players. It obviously hasn't gone well, because his players dont want to listen to a thing he has to say.
 
The moment he called a locker room full of mostly African American grown men Thugs ( even tho i sincerely think he meant to say slugs ) he was gone .
 
Sonnett is right. I had forgotten he had made that mistake. Looks like Bickerstaff is taking over.
 
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