#1: LeBron is SO good and has set the bar SO high, morons on message boards actually have the nerve to say “I believe his defense has improved, but he hasn’t been elected Defensive Player of the Year yet”. Jaw-dropping. I guess shutting down Kobe Bryant twice this season was easy??
That’s like saying, “Yeah, Tiger Woods won 5 professional golf tournaments, but he hasnt done it with his right arm tied behind his back”.

#2: If there is another player on this team you want shooting the ball with the game on the line, I’m all about suggestions. LeBron takes shots to win games, but he also passes, draws fouls, basically does all the things great players do to win ballgames. Depends on the situation.

#3: You would rather have a coach who is a) completely in denial or b) a bold faced liar. Mike Brown is no fool, no matter what the nerdy glasses indicate. He is intelligent, he is a bright young NBA coach, and most of all, he knows how to handle the media. Mike Brown is the perfect coach for this team. Larry Brown would have LeBron packing his bags for anywhere else by now. We dont need a micromanager, we need a player’s coach, and that’s Mike Brown to a T.
I’ll ask the question again… What would happen if Mike Brown dropped a line in the paper or on the radio saying something like “I am LeBron’s boss”??? You never answered that question, but I think you know the answer. It would be taken out of context, it would be blown up all over the universe, and Mike would take incredible heat for it. Not to mention what LeBron might think, and if you care about the Cleveland Cavaliers, you care DEEPLY what LeBron James thinks. Why does that bother all of you? Too old? Too ignorant? I’m baffled. Give the kid his due.

GET A CLUE, my dear Windy clones, and quit this petty garbage about ‘who’s the boss’. Come playoff time, none of this will matter, because we have the best player in the NBA, and his supporting cast is improving. We SHOULD have beaten the best team in the West (if not all of basketball) tonight, without 3 guys!!

Lebron James has bought into his own system. Sure, he sometimes guards the opponent’s best player at the end of a game. But I’ve also watched him leave his man in search of an easy rebound, only to see the ball get swung back around to that same player for an easy bucket. I believe his defense has improved, but he hasn’t been elected Defensive Player of the Year yet, either.

Also, at the end of a close game, when Lebron decides to dribble out the clock and then chuck a fade-away 3 pointer that misses by half a mile, I am disgusted. Because we all know that Mike Brown drew up a play and James decided to disregard it and take a poor shot. That’s an example of him buying into his own system.

I know the (talented) inmates are running the asylum in the NBA. But no self-respecting coach admits that in the local papers. And if Mike Brown isn’t calling the plays at the end of the game, then who is? I don’t care how great a player is, someone needs to be in charge. Otherwise, why even have coaches or general managers?

Lots of people come here and post negative things but they don’t do it in the spiteful way you do. I mean, if you hate everything about THIS team so much, how were you during the real dark years? These are good times compared to that. How did you manage to stay a fan if you can really call yourself one thru all those 20 win seasons? This Cavs team isn’t perfect, they have lots of issues, they are cringe worthy to watch at times and lots can be done to improve them. But they are who they are…enjoy Lebron instead of complaining that he doesn’t do enough charity work. You know, he does more charity work in one day than you’ve done in your lifetime I bet. Look at yourself first before you bad-mouth him or the others on the team for things not even related to basketball, which is what we watch them for. You rip him for not being more like that other idiot Marbury – what is your problem man. If we had Marbury, you’d be ripping him for something but because he isn’t a Cav, you have to go out of your way to praise him. You just have an unreal need to find everything wrong in every way with this team and that act is old. It was old the first time I came across it and it hasn’t even been a year yet.

I don’t mind the negativity around this team. I see the same things everyone else does in what is wrong but there are lots of positives too. You’re just the type of person that if we had an all-star at every position and on the bench, won 80% of our games, were way under the salary cap, and so on, you would still find things to bitch and moan about just to make yourself feel important on these boards. Jeez, it’s a small blog for a basketball team in a mid-market and the great majority of us appreciate it for what it is. Nothing more, nothing less. Get over yourself, get over your spite and hatred and if you can’t do that in a civil and decent way, then just stay off the boards. A simple request really.

I’m intrigued by the next frontier of cynicism and hatred… how to reconcile the state of being completely wrong on every post he’s ever put on Windy’s board when LeBron and co get their first ring, under Mike Brown’s guidance, and with Ferry sitting in his louge sipping a Sprite. I guess it’ll be on to the NBA draft and ripping on the 18-20 year olds the Cavs decide to select.

Alan, Ira Newble is GONE. Damon Jones has been playing great basketball for 2 months now and hasnt said boo-peep about wanting out. And have you ever considered what would happen if Mike Brown dropped a bombshell like “LeBron knows who the boss is”? It would have run all over the country, Skip Bayless would have peed himself on national TV, and Stephen A Smith would have had a coronary, with only Jalen Rose to resuscitate him.

Phil Jackson is not Kobe’s “boss”, Stan Van Jeremy is not Dwight Howard’s “boss”, etc etc. In the NBA, the players are the BOSS, and that’s just the way it is. Maybe someday when you’re an NBA coach, you can run the show your way.

Loved your last paragraph, as if trying to add background will add legitimacy to the bile you’re unloading upon the world’s bandwidth.

Regardless, if I’m an idiot by saying Brown really is a limp figurehead, as further evidenced by that outrageous video of Ferry publicly humiliating Brown at that Pistons playoff game, then I suppose Terry Pluto’s Hair is an idiot, too. Bad Terry Pluto’s Hair! Bad! Bad Hair!

Mike C. is absolutely correct. There has not been a single incident since then.

Perhaps with adults, you talk to them behind the scenes, not make a public spectacle of it and get folks to play within the system and as a team. Damon Jones has been nothing but a team player these last few months. He looks glad to be here, and is fun to watch when he plays.

Perhaps in a comaguys world, you make public spectacles, make an ass of yourself, criticize and complain about things just to hear yourself speak, show how foolish and uneducated you are, throw out references that have nothing to do with anything just to make yourself believe you’re being witty and clever, and when all else fails, blame a coma for your inability to appreciate a successful playoff run for what it was.

James has been hurt this year. Perhaps when that happened, you started throwing feces at your walls and at your momma but I didn’t see any monkey type behavior on the Cavs when he got hurt. I think you’re mis-remembering what happened when he was out for a while. Your Pacman reference has nothing to do with anything…next time just don’t post.

Snap out of it comaguy! You live to complain about the Cavs. That is all you ever do. Last year when they had a great deal of success, your life was on the brink so you disappeared and blamed it on a coma. When they lost to the Spurs, you came back from your life/death situation and live to complain about the Cavs again. Hopefully, they can put you out of your misery this year once and for all. Not likely but one has to have hope.

So I agree with Terry Pluto’s Hair, James didn’t buy into Mike Brown’s system, James bought into James’ system. If James ever gets hurt, the monkeys will take over the zoo. No respect. Poor Mike Brown will have players throwing their feces at him. Next on FOX, “Planet of the Apes: The Bill Duke Chronicles.”

Comaguy, just face it – anything, ANYTHING at all, that gets said on this blog about the Cavs players, executives, coaches, owner, etc , you will be an idiot in your retorts regarding it. See, people on this blog – when they have a dissenting opinion, they will talk about it in basketball terms. You on the other hand, make asanine references, personally attack Brown, Windhorst, Lebron, Gilbert, Ferry, and whoever else and sit in your momma’s basement thinking you’re a genius for having said it. And you do this on every blog you visit throughout the day?? Wow, just wow. You’ll harp on something that happened months or years and NEVER LET IT GO. Move on comaguy, find something/someone else to nitpick and be belligerent about please.

The next coma emergency could be less than 2 months away. Let’s just hope this one takes you with it because when you post something here, it just takes all the interest away from all the other posts.