The Cavaliers are driving the struggle bus as they are 7-13 in their past 20 games, have the 28th best defense in the league, and seem to lack effort and vitality on many nights
Typically that all combined with a severely under performing team that is expected to be a contender, is the perfect recipe for the head coach to be fired in order for the organization to try and shake things up and bring a team out of a lull.
That is still not even a consideration apparently for the Cavaliers and Tyronn Lue.
Here is a report from Adrian Wojnarowski:
“We are not firing our head coach,” one Cavaliers official told ESPN late Saturday night.
Lue has expressed frustration with the team, describing the Cavaliers to ESPN’s Lisa Salters at halftime of Saturday’s loss as “soft, weak, no physicality, no toughness, no grit.”
From an outsiders perspective, it seems like Lue is an average coach at best, but when you consider his players like him and the team has won an NBA title and made another NBA Finals since he officially took over as head coach, it seems pretty premature to fire him 50 or so games into an underwhelming season.
Plus, who would step in and coach the team the rest of the season? It is not like Red Auerbach or Phil Jackson are just sitting there waiting to take over the job, I guess Phil technically would possibly be, but let’s not go there.
Lue needs to demand more of his players, but let’s be honest, the franchise is run by LeBron and the current roster is far too old to realistically be a good defensive team, unless they get a great addition through trade in the next few days.
Now if the Cavaliers are eliminated early this postseason and LeBron leaves this off-season, Lue could be on his way out.
