<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">SAITAMA, JAPAN - It has been more than three months, but Cavaliers coach Mike Brown can't bring himself to watch the Cavs' last game. He won't anytime, soon, either. Brown attended Team USA's practice Tuesday outside Tokyo with Cavs General Manager Danny Ferry in support of LeBron James. After the FIBA World Championship, Brown will be off with his wife and sons to an NBA Basketball Without Borders event in South Africa, where game film will be one of the furthest things from his mind. The point is this: He's not allowing the way last season ended to dictate how he'll coach next season. Despite some offensive woes, the raw nerve being the 79-61 Game 7 loss to the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference semifinals, Brown is sticking to his system. He didn't make any changes to his coaching staff in the offseason, and no major strategy changes appear to be in store for training camp, which starts in about six weeks. ``In this business, there is a lot of change, and change isn't always the answer,'' Brown said. ``We want to get better at what we do. We have a foundation, and we want to build on that.'' Some fans might not receive that well. The Cavs' offense faltered under pressure last season, often leaving James to try to score by himself. The only play that seemed to work with consistency against the Pistons was Anderson Varejao spinning the Pistons' defenders in circles, setting up unscripted pick-and-rolls with James. Despite investing millions on free agents to support James on offense last summer, the Cavs' scoring average increased by about a point. James' points went up, and his assists went down, the inverse of the expectation. Larry Hughes, who missed 40 games with a finger injury, also said at the end of the season that he hoped to change his role within the attack. Brown defends his offense, which is based on a system assistant coach Hank Egan used with the San Antonio Spurs. It relies heavily on pick-and-rolls to the side, and player reads away from the ball. Brown maintains that it worked when Hughes was healthy early in the season. ``I don't think we were bad offensively,'' Brown said. ``I don't know where we finished at, but at the start of the year when Larry was healthy, we were averaging 102 points and 15 fastbreak points a game. If we'd had Flip (Murray) or Larry on the wing the entire year, I think we'd have finished in the top 10 offensively.''</div> Source
LeBron needs good players to allow him to naturally be what he does best be a distributer and not have the cavs offense be totally dependant on him.
