Iāve been checking in on Beileinās Cavs from time to time. They lost by 42 points last night to the Celtics. They shot 32% from the field, 17% from three, had 29 turnovers and got outscored 37-9 in the 2nd quarter.
Holy cow. Beilein must have lost his mind with those numbers.
Daily John Beilein update. His Cavaliers are currently down by almost 20 in the third to a Celtics team that sat itās top 7 rotational players.
More importantly, Carsen Edwards is in Klay Thompson mode. Heās 7 for 8 from three in the first five minutes of third quarter alone. Iāve never seen anything like it.
āYeah, with new offense we are just trying to figure it out,ā Sexton said. āWeāre not used to anything like this, just pretty much getting up and down playing, and a lot of pick and rolls, a lot of different actions. Itās a new offense, itās going to take time to understand it and thereās some things that we are going to talk to coach about.ā
Beilein is a perfectionist. He demands much out of his players. It doesnāt sit well when his team gets embarrassed and loses by 46 points ā even in a preseason game. Itās tough to accept getting smashed by the Celticsā B Team. Itās why Beilein walked off the podium exasperated and talked through his frustrations with one member of the front office about an hour after Tuesdayās game wrapped ā a good learning experience of what likely lies ahead.
Sexton talking to Beilein about āa new offenseā
I want to see Beilein have all the success in the world, but I could see this going south quickly if the Cavs get off to a slow start. His system is complicated and requires players to buy in or else they will never learn it. Pros are not as coachable as college kids, particularly with regard to the fundamentals that Beilein loves teaching.
I love John Beilein, but going to the Cavs was a terrible decision from a basketball stand point. I hope that he is content with his decision and has no regrets when heās done. And I also hope he beats the odds and the Cavs make the playoffs once in the next 5 years.
The Cavs as an organization are in a terrible spot. Dan Gilbert is a terrible owner. I donāt see it lasting past 2 seasons, even though Iām sure Gilbert promised otherwise.
I donāt think the complexity of his offense should be an issue. Not to pros.
Yeah as much as it grated on me sometimes while he was at Michigan that he wouldnt simplify his system to get sometimes the better/raw/young guys on the court, it made sense in college. It is going to be tough road ahead to instill this in NBA guys. He is going to get new guys in and out throughout the course of the season and seasons to come. Also, gotta imagine practice time is going to be even more limited in the pros because there are just so many games.
This is me connecting dots at this point, but if you have players coming to practice exhausted from all the travel and games and wear-and-tear it will be ever harder to implement his complexity. Hopefully some of the more veteran NBA voices around him are making this clear.
I think no matter how it goes, Beilein wonāt have any regrets at the very least. But manā¦ Cavs were about the worst opening there could be. Makes me wish the pistons waited an extra year to find a new HC, and got him instead of the Cavs.
Yeah I would have liked to see him in Detroit, but Iām not sure they have the best roster for him either. Canāt imagine Reggie Jackson and Drummond being the most coachable in a complex system. Beilein would need to coach a team of vets who donāt have egos and are willing to work to learn his system.
Agreed. Pistons still would not have been great. But man, that sounds a lot better than Dan Gilbert and that Cleveland roster.
But Dan Gilbert offered him the jobā¦
Yeah, all hypothetical here. If Detroit had kept their last coach (before Dwayne Casey) for an extra year, then hired Beilein this summer.
As a fan of neither Iād prefer the cavs roster if I was somewhere for the next five yearsā¦
Last offseason the Pistons poaching Beilein was an absolute nightmare. This May it suddenly looked heavenly in comparison to what the Cavs managed to do. I loved Beilein so much and loved his press conferences and would have liked that for the Pistons now. But ultimately I care more about Michigan basketball than the Pistons and the NBA, and hopefully Juwan is going to help us all forget about how awful that was.
Maybe once thatās taken care of I can bring myself to be curious about the Cavs or Beileinās journey there, but for now thatās just another team I donāt root for.
Must be a tough wake up call for JB to realize thereās more frustrating basketball players to coach than Jordan Poole
Beilein has never adapted his system to his talent, better or worse. He has three decent three point shooters on the whole roster. Itās going to be dark.
Here is a comparison for his move to the Cavs. Itās very similar with his move from Richmond to WVU. WVU was in absolute shambles when he got the job. There were a few holdovers and a bunch of them didnāt make it. Just needs time.
His appearance on the Woj pod was very good. He had a much different tone then when he was in college.
I take massive issue with this statement.