Bladeneo said:
Kasz216 said:
Bladeneo said:
Keeping Hickson was never a bad thing though; many critics considered him to be the most talented player, offensively, that LeBron had played with in Cleveland (which says everything really). On paper the Jamison deal looked great, he was more flexible and dynamic than Amar'e and cost the Cavs next to nothing, but again it was another one of those deals that didn't pan out. Just the Mo Williams deal, just like the Ben Wallace deal, like pretty much every deal Mike Brown and Ferry made.
Mike Brown wasn't a great coach by any stretch, but no way the Cavs could justify firing a guy who won coach of the year and took them to two 60 win seasons. Oh sure, everyone accepted it was pretty much LeBron doing all the leading on and off the court, but you can't go ahead and fire a guy when your playoff run went like this:
2007 Finals
2008 Celtics in 7, an amazing series and lost mainly due to Paul Pierce going insanse
2009 Magic, a series that was much closer than people accept and really, Rashard Lewis turned into a clutch machine with his three points
It was only until 2010 when there was no plausible explanation other than bad players, a subpar Lebron performance and bad coaching decisions that there was much to complain about.
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Except, you are suggesting LeBron was mad becuase they didn't get any of those big trades.
Which you know, would of required Hickson. Who he wanted to keep.
So how are both of those things possible?
As for firing Mike Brown. I disagree... it's happened before with big performances. 2009 was the perfect chance to fire him because he did not adjust his gameplans and had the same dumb subsitution issues.
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Hickson was drafted in 2008...they had 4 years of missed opportunities and bad trades before then which Hickson wasn't a part of. Players like Gooden, Szczerbiak, Wallace; a laundry list of average, average players.
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Vs what other options?
They should of traded Szczerbiak's contract earlier, but that was pretty much the only mistake they made up till then.
Though actually i'm pretty sure the Szczerbiak contract wasn't worth much until like 2009.
