Cleveland Cavalier News & Rumors: Coach's Lack Of NBA Experience Holds Team Down? Lebron James Throwing David Blatt Under The Bus?

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Does coach David Blatt's lack of experience is finally showing as Cleveland Cavaliers continue to struggle?

The latest news from ESPN is not good as the sports website allegedly talked to sources who claimed that the locker room of the Cleveland Cavaliers is divided because the team is not fully on board with first-time coach David Blatt.

"Sources told ESPN.com that there is rising concern in team circles about the level of response that Blatt is getting on the floor, with Blatt himself acknowledging that the Cavaliers 'lost our energy and we lost our competitiveness' in Sunday night's embarrassing home loss to Detroit," it reported.

However, Blatt dismissed all the news and rumors regarding the Cleveland Cavaliers being in trouble.

"We have not played perfectly this year, I don't claim that," he said. "On the other hand, we're doing pretty good. We lost a couple games, we're down a few of our main players and last night did not look good and we did not respond well to it during the game. I recognize that. And certainly when that happens I'm every bit as much a part of that as everybody else, but it has nothing to do with questions along the lines of what I've heard. I just don't think that's right or fair. I really don't."

But what does two-time MVP Lebron James thinks?

NBA reporter David McMenamin tweeted Lebron James' answer to the question whether or not the players support David Blatt: "LeBron James when asked if David Blatt is the 'right' coach for the Cavs: 'Yeah, I mean, he's our coach, what other coach do we have?'"

In the words of Tony Manfred of Business Insider, weighing on the latest news from the Cleveland Cavaliers' front, what Lebron James said was not exactly a "ringing endorsement" of David Blatt because he could have quashed the reports by complimenting the first-time coach instead of throwing him under the bus.

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