How David Blatt Will Run the Cleveland Cavaliers Offense

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I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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July 19, 2014

How David Blatt Will Run the Cleveland Cavaliers Offense

Coach David Blatt is definitely a man that is in motion during a game. I have watched a lot of footage on Coach Blatt’s Maccabi Tel Aviv team and the Russian National team. He likes his team in motion just like he is in motion on the sidelines. David Blatt will be coaching a team that has a ton of talent like LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Andrew Wiggins, and some very interesting talent. He comes to the NBA with the reputation of being an offensive genius. David Blatt is an american who played at Princeton and spent the last few decades overseas becoming one on the top coaches on that continent. He just let Maccabi Tel Aviv to an upset Euroleague title win. He is the first coach to make the leap straight from the euroleague head coach to the NBA head coach.

Most people are watching the NBA summer league in Las Vegas the next couple weeks to see how David Blatt and his NBA Summer League Cleveland Cavaliers will be playing. He is imploring his guys to get out and run with every opportunity and even off his opponent’s makes. He is often on the bench, trying to teach the guys sitting there, and encouraging players like Anthony Bennett when he sees a good play.

Coach David Blatt loves teaching the game and learning about the game. He is definitely a student of the game. He likes to listen to Coaches like Larry Brown and others for advice.

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You will see the Cleveland Cavaliers running some princeton offense where they move the ball and keep moving off the ball. You will also see a very up tempo offense that is about reading what the defense gives them and exploiting it.

He will wait to see what players are on the roster and will tailor make his set play offense according to them. Coach David Blatt understands that there is a different rhythm to coaching in the NBA compared to Europe and that he will need to get used to it. That’s the exact reason that he is coaching the Summer League team when most coaches leave that to an assistant coach.

David Blatt is very polished and smooth with the media and has a great sense of humor. He looks like he is having a blast doing what he loves already in the NBA.

A huge set of thanks to George Seff who found the video and did the diagrams for me. It’s an excellent set of basketball diagrams compiled by Coach George Seff. You need to download those diagrams. Coach Seff is a head youth coach, and assistant high school and junior college coach in Arlington VA.

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