source: www.realgm.com <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Plain-Dealer - If the Cavaliers are going to get over their current struggles, showing more focus will be among their major tasks, according to Cavs General Manager Danny Ferry. "The results thus far have shown we can be a good team, but that we need to stay focused on getting better," Ferry replies in an e-mail. "For the most part, we have practiced and played hard." The Cavs say LeBron James and Larry Hughes had a heated verbal confrontation after one recent loss. Grumbles are reportedly simmering within the team about how rookie head coach Mike Brown conducts practices - namely, that they're too long.</div>
Practices are "too long." Cry me a river. Here's more to the article ... <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The average Cavs player has nearly five years of NBA experience. The squad has two All-Star players (James and Zydrunas Ilgauskas) and an All-Defensive first team guy (Hughes). And it has spent four weeks of training camp, eight exhibition contests and now 21 regular-season games obsessed with one word: defense. Yet, the Cavs still can't grasp Brown's defensive system enough to play it competently? Hmmm. Logic says this means either: 1. The Cavs have some of the dumbest players in the NBA - in which case, it's worth questioning how Brown and Ferry put together this team; or 2. Brown's defensive system is so over-schemed, convoluted and complex that it can make a NASA scientist dizzy, and should be streamlined and simplified. </div>
