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Cavs don't know playbook, Scott seethes

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08:12 AM ET 01.21 | In an effort to switch things up, Byron Scott went a little deeper into his offensive playbook -- only to catch his team by surprise. Cavs players got a tongue lashing from their coach at practice Thursday for still not knowing the plays. Scott isn't installing more than half of the playbook for his Princeton offense this season, yet apparently both veterans and rookies alike forgot a good portion of it already. Scott called out a play in the loss Wednesday that the team hadn't used in a couple of weeks. As a result, no one was sure where to go in what eventually became a 106-98 loss to the Suns.

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January 21, 2011  09:55 AM ET

Firsteez!

January 21, 2011  09:55 AM ET

Now on topic: WOW! the cavs are so terrible they don't even know the plays??? Just a tragedy....

January 21, 2011  09:57 AM ET

Come back to LA, Bro.

January 21, 2011  10:00 AM ET
QUOTE(#1):

Firsteez!

What?

You want a cookie?

January 21, 2011  10:02 AM ET
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What? You want a cookie?

Yes Please! LOL! HAHA!

January 21, 2011  10:03 AM ET

Great Article by TNR...

We're not talking Showtime here as far as Talent.

Byron should dummy down the Playbook...

Offense: Put the ball in the basket
Defense: Get between your guy and the basket.

January 21, 2011  10:04 AM ET
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Great Article by TNR...We're not talking Showtime here as far as Talent.Byron should dummy down the Playbook...Offense: Put the ball in the basketDefense: Get between your guy and the basket.

LOL! That sounds like a good plan....

January 21, 2011  10:17 AM ET

Contraction!

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January 21, 2011  10:20 AM ET
QUOTE(#6):

Great Article by TNR...We're not talking Showtime here as far as Talent.Byron should dummy down the Playbook...Offense: Put the ball in the basketDefense: Get between your guy and the basket.

sounds too hard for the cavs. scott would need to dummy down the dummy down playbook

January 21, 2011  10:47 AM ET

Do you think Mike Brown is grateful now that he was fired?

January 21, 2011  10:47 AM ET
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And we can start with you.

LMAO! Cold as ice....

January 21, 2011  10:54 AM ET

Reading is fundamental, man.

January 21, 2011  10:55 AM ET
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And we can start with you.

HAHA! (In my Nelson Muntz voice)

January 21, 2011  11:01 AM ET

half the way through the season and coach is just realizing this

January 21, 2011  11:07 AM ET

This figures. The Cavs offensive play book for the last 5 years has consisted of....give the ball to LeFlake and get out of the way.

January 21, 2011  11:24 AM ET

as a few have already stated many of these cavs don't even know what these so called "plays" are, rather they were all use to the ol' "hey LeBron, what do you want to do" offense

January 21, 2011  11:25 AM ET
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Sigh...I was afraid this would happen. Most of those guys are probably use to the dumbed down offense from the Lebron era. On the brightside. "The first pick in the 2011 in NBA draft lottery goes to......THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS!!!"Works for me.

unfortunately in a draft with no guy who stands out as a legit #1

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