Inside The Huddle Of LeBron's Iconic 2007 Playoff Performance | ALL THE SMOKE
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- Former Cavs head coach and 2x Coach of the Year, Mike Brown discusses leading a young LeBron in Cleveland for a few years and shares inside details about the legendary 2007 playoff run LBJ put together.
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I remember back then Mike Brown's coaching strategy was "If y'all run my defensive system to perfection then LeBron can do wtf he wants on offense". It was crazy how well Bron handled that at 20
Rs, he always said he let bron do whatever he wanted bcuz he knew the cavs would get rid of him before they get rid of bron 😂 MB probably the funnest coach ever low key
Bron made the finals at 20!
He was 22
@@paytontrue6973 he was 22.
@@mikewill4839he a real one for sure, bro said he gonna get this money and imma get this money. Do whatever you want big man 😂😂😂
Respect to Mike Brown..he admitted he got out coached but look at him now,he got the Kings turned around
Hw didn't say he got out coached, he went up against a juggernaut in San Antonio and he mentioned Laery Hughes was hurt.
I mean he wasn’t out coached the spurs had players who can score the cavs had a player who can score just go back and look how close the games was the spurs should have blown the cavs out every game honestly
@@kel4749 when I say out coaches I’m referring to how he didn’t know to make adjustments from the way the Cavs played all season up in that series.
@@KingDizzleLTDinc.yea most people here don’t understand basketball. They actually think Mike Brown is a good coach 😂 he’s always been carried by his stars, otherwise he’s a dumpster fire.
In Bron’s early years in Cleveland he was a victim of his own success. He improved the team record and as a result didn’t get draft picks like Jordan did when the bulls landed Pippen at #5 in 1987 as well as Horace Grant at #10 which changed everything for the bulls.
People don’t take that into the fact
@@mauiworld8022it goes against the Nike narrative they've been sold.
Fun/sad bit of irony with the history of draft picks. LA Lakers got #1 pick James Worthy after wining a championship. The reason... Cleveland Cavs. They were so bad with dealing with draft picks when they got them, the NBA had to change the rules on draft pick deals.
That's the organization Lebron had to save.
@@beery665914/6/3 isn’t slightly above average checking stats and not watching games…. Pippin was the second best player on that team even back then….
@@beery6659 still, the bulls were able to get a 5th and 10th pick in the 87 draft.
Most rookies don’t come in and make an immediate impact it takes 2-3 years.
If Pippen didn’t have massive potential no one would’ve drafted him at 5th! And according to the bulls own ship in the last dance Pippen was a steal!
Lebron is the reason Kyrie and kd thought they didn’t need a coach cause he was one on the floor Kyrie quickly found out that IQ hit different
Exactly!!
Yea LeBron demands excellence. He’s that coworker who annoys you but you love, cause at the end of the day he only wants to perfect his craft and showcase that
KD is such a disappointment. For a proclaimed “basketball genius” all he relies on is 1v1. He’s just a supplemental piece.
“Iconic”- one word to describe 21 year old LeBron James
That's why I laughed when they compared him and Luka.
@akeemMagic01 Exactly there's only on Bron. How Ironic that I completely forgot that Mike Malone was on the coaching staff when Bron was there.
@@akeemMagic01 right - Lebron impact is greater than the statistics .
LeBron Made other people multi-millionaires-LeBron is Iconic.
@akeemMagic01 Right! And let's be real here, no diss to Luka, but it's the Great White Hope effect, if you know what i mean. LOL
understatement
Watching this interview and Wemby right now with how Pop utilizes him makes me think, “What version of LeBron would’ve been unlocked if he had a coach like Pop from the jump?”
Man all I know is the top guys we talk about in terms of the GOAT argument, all had good coaches and systems. People can talk that stupid shit and act like hes played with great coaches, but he's never had a Pop or a Phil Jackson. These are 2 coaches that elevated the play of there players. Jordan nor Kobe win as much as they did without the triangle. Idc what anyone says. They didn't play winning basketball. They were the type that would score a lot of points but would ultimately lose. I could only imagine how good LeBron would be with coaches like them.
Imagine Mike Tyson if Cus didn't pass away. That'd be Bron's career with Pop as his coach
Lebron wouldn’t be 4 of 10 in the NBA finals that’s for sure. He’d be at least 6 of 10 imo.
a coachable player and discipline enough to be a killer on the last shot
Erik Spolstra is the best coach in the NBA last 10+ years but sure he never had any good coach’s and remember Lebron wanted him to be fired Riley told play basketball I run the team
Greg pop tried that same defense In 2013 game 7 against bron. My boy ain’t miss ‼️🤣🏆
They had no chance in 07 lol. Bron was so limited offensively and his teammates were pretty much all specialists so they were limited too. And then the offense they ran was literally the spurs offense that mike brown took when he was an assistant so the spurs knew exactly how to play them
It’s crazy how much bron improved in such a short time. My goat
@@L4-295 FINALLY SOMEONE WITH A NON-CASUAL LEVEL OF HOOP IQ points this out! I said the same shit when I would see lebron running actions during the finals, he seemed to get to similar spots TP would but spurs would blow up the play... fast forward to recently Robert Horry pretty much said the reason the finals was so easy was because Mike bonehead Brown was running Spurs sets (from his time as a Spurs assistant) vs the Cavs! "how you gonna run floppy down against us, thats our play!"
So aside from the only other person that could handle the ball and create off the dribble, Larry Hughes, missing the finals, only play 2 minutes the whole series, that variable pretty much doomed lebron to a healthy dose of traps, collapses, and hard doubles and triples.
Similar to how GS defended lebron in 2015, when Kyrie and Kevin were injured. Doesnt work well with full personnel on the court though
what about 2014?
Dwyane wade.
Mike brown has had his hands on a couple NBA champion teams. 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
This man actually just said that he had no opinion on what his team should do offensively to wins. Game. Yet Jordan had Phil in the huddle for all of his chips. And people wonder why I always bring up coaching . This is why
Bingo the man had the greatest coach and the greatest #2 man in the history of basketball. Bron always been working from a deficient
Cap
@@tommygunn2782 and the answer is no. Remember he couldn’t he’s never beaten a team better than the ones he was on, no matter how impressive his stats are
@@tronregiswhitelow7712 did you watch the interview? Mike Brown said it.
@@tronregiswhitelow7712 Found the delusional jordan meat muncher 🤡
I was impressed with LeBron's dominance, I was rooting for the Cavs to win it all that year, but the Spurs had too many weapons.
Too many weapons and a coach who understood how t9o adjust
Lebron didn't show up
@@AP11634 by himself?
@@merrickjackson1623 bro the first game he was like 3 for 15 go check . Daniel Gibson was the leading scorer with 16. Them games where close they wasn't no blowouts because the cavs were a great defensive team. He def didn't have no help offensively but he shot the worst and didn't play up to his potential. If he played like he played the round before against Detroit than they beat the Spurs easily that's how great LeBron is but he couldn't hit the jumpers when it counted. The only Spur who had a great series was parker. They lost one game 75 to 72 another 83 to 82 and two 9 point loses that they could've easily won
@@AP11634 You obviously didn't listen to Mike Brown when he said he didn't do a good job of adjusting to what the Spurs were doing defensively. This is not NBA 2k were if you shoot a good percentage everythings gonna be alright. Playoffs are about adjustments. The reason LeBron did what he did to the other teams were because they didn't make him exclusively a jump shooter. And while that wasn't in his bag then, he was still good enough to average 22 7 and 7 in the finals. And did you really say Gibson was a solid performer. I looked at his averages for the series and he averaged 10.8 points. Really, so wht happened in games 2, 3 and 4. Owe yean the player he was guarding on the other end averaged 25 pts and shot 60 percent from the field. Gibsons scored almost exlusively off of Brons assists. Its not like he took someon one off the dribble.
That Detroit series made me a Lebron fan
Same! I was living in Detroit and saw one of those games. I went in thinking LeBron was over hyped and I was ready to see "Deeeeeetroiiiit Basketbaaaaaaaall" stomp him out. To this day, I've never seen one player carve through a team like that. He's the most hyped player ever and he's over delivered.
A "WITNESS"
I really like all the rookie coaches that worked with Bron, Mike Brown, Mike Malone, Ty Lue, Spo.. I wish they were more experienced at the time he was with them, so that they could have won more together. After their 2007 finals loss, Bron worked on his jumper more and more. Pop did that for him, every great player and coach can show you the flaws in your game and the objective is to work on them
I mean spo got two and bron was the reason they lost the first one
@pasadenavirgo5355 what a stupid take lmao
@@pasadenavirgo5355 hahahaha LeBron was also the reason they got to four straight finals.
GOAT is how u describe Bron
The Ironic of Mike Malone was in the coaching staff when Bron was there. NOW seeing them win last year a championship under his belt. Crazy how Bron stills playing
He really was letting "LeBron go one on five" (in my Charles Barkley voice)
Them first stint cavs with LeBron was so fun to watch and go to the games. LeBron especially younger LeBron was such a kid at heart.... dancing and goofing around and jus made his teammates feel comfortable and then he gave alot of those guys confidence they never would've had... I bet yall don't remember LeBron made adersen varajao an Allstar lol and I believe Z was an all star too because of Bron lol he's the ultimate teammate
No disrespect to Coach Brown but if LeBron had a coach like Popavich earlier in his career then I believe LeBron would've had 6 rings by now.
Lebron would've been close to B. Russell if he had a coach like Pop...
He took Pop's playbook and tried to get a Chip....😂😂 If it was anyone else it would've worked
😂😂
Then repeated the same shi with the kings vs the warriors
I’ve been wondering why it’s always so LeBron centric on podcasts and everything but it all makes sense because- all of these pieces will be for a series of documentaries after his retirement; it’s coming so quickly…. Gosh.
that documentary is gonna be special. part 1: his first 7 years with the cavs, part 2: going to miami, part 3: coming back to the cavs making history, part 4 end of his career with the lakers, farewell tour, playing w his son
Every player that's been in GOAT status has ALWAYS been the topic of discussion not just Bron
Dumb these are Lebron hate shows
@@zyxtrrThen the crossover with Steph's documentary since they played against each other in the Finals so much.
Maybe it’s because Bron has been dominating the league since he entered and is still playing hard today.
Mike Brown don't look no older than he did back then
NO MATTER HOW GREAT A PLAYER IS WE ALL NEED A COACH
Lebron had bunch of grocery baggers vs HOFers in Spurs. TD really warmed up the league for the King
which performance was better? lebron 25 straight against the pistons or 45 in game 6 against celtics in 2012?🤔
Hands-down is the Pistons. Top-tier defense for half a decade. LeBron, just find a way to write off 25 uncheck points?! I know the Celtics were tough, but let’s not forget about that Detroit defense. That defense was arguably the equivalent of the Kansas City Chiefs offense of the modern day with their ECF/Title appearances.
game 6 Celtics is just untouchable. His ENTIRE legacy was on the line in that game and he dominated the game from start to finish.. He could have scored 60 points in that game had the game been closer
Legacy wise Celtics, performance wise Pistons. If LeBron lost that game 6 it would’ve forever changed the entire course of his career and not in a good way. On the other hand scoring 25 consecutive points is damn near impossible which is why it’s never been replicated since, plus he did it against a championship level team, in the playoffs, at such a young age which just makes it so much more awesome.
Celtics game 6 because of the pressure that comes along with it. After a meltdown in the 2011 Finals, he has to redeem himself but is on the brink of elimination. His legacy is on the line.
Celtics no question
This dude is madd authentic lmaoo funny guy
This tells you how much LeBron was the coach of that team. We always talk about the great, but we never talk about the coaches they had no Hall of Fame coaches to speak of his entire career. This is a moment where GREAT COACHES make adjustments, especially against a team like SA with 3 HOF’s
The crazy part is him NOT coaching (for that one game) was great coaching
damn Jackson didnt hate on lebron I'm impressed
Larry was hurt for the entire Detroit series. He was getting cortisone shots in his foot and his contributions were limited. He was really the starting shooting guard but the moved him over to the 2 and had him play alongside Sasha Pavlovic. If Hughes was healthy and right he would've been a problem for the Spurs and I anticipate it would've been a 6 game series in favor of the Spurs.
Straight Facts.
Being from this area I can say most of the noise about Coach Brown came from outside of Cleveland. Most of us realized he was an inexperienced head coach that had the fortune/misfortune of coaching a legit once in a lifetime talent.
Best Version Of LeBron.
2013 Lebron?
2016 Lebron?
2018 Lebron?
2009 Lebron?
2013 by far. 2016 and 2018 he cared too much about stats and not enough about defense and hustle. 2009 his athleticism was crazy but overall game wasn’t as developed.
for me it’s 2018. he played all 82 games, had multiple game winners in the playoffs, his scoring was crazy & carried that team to the finals dropped 51 game 1
2009 most athletic lebron
2013 was his best shooting season
2016 his best finals
@@brendanbloom3366 2015 underrated
@jayyy.2k 2013 was the best overall version. Great mix between skill, strength and speed
Taking 2013
Shoutout mike brown 🗣️
Baby GOAT was RIDICULOUS!!!
22 year old lebron was nice
Horry said that series was already in the bag coz you're using san antonio plays against Pop 😂😂
Mike Brown has couched the GREATEST players of this generation!!!
LeBron, Kobe, KD, Steph, Tim Duncan, Reggie Miller.,etc
THE CAVS WERE INEXPERIENCED THEY DIDN'T HAVE A ANSWER FOR TONY. ALL IT TAKES IS FOR ONE PLAYER TO BE FULLY LOCKED IN TO SET THE TONE FOR THE REST OF THE TEAM 🏆🏆🏆🏆
👑🐐
What a guy! For a while, like when he got hired as the Lakers coach, I was surprised he was getting those opportunities because he always seemed a bit dorky to me. He is such a good communicator though so I imagine he absolutely crushes during the interview process.
S/O Mike Brown 💪🏾‼️
Never thought of it this way i appreciatethe perspective mike....but naw mike you got to make adjustments lol the moment you realized they were waiting for him at the FT line ...that was the time lol
WHEN ITS ALL SET AND DONE PEOPLE WILL FINALLY REALIZE WHO THE GREATEST NBA PLAYER IS
the fact that these grown ass men are talking bout Lebron as if he retired already but still in the league means he is the GOAT!
Crazy how he got all this knowledge without having a HOF coach
Spoelstra?
@@Justin-kl7mpthat’s gonna mess up the narrative of him not having a HOF coach..#Shhhhhh
I think a lot of players hate on lebron because of the attention he’s always got but you can’t deny his greatness we want miss him til he’s gone
Shot 35% Fg in the Finals but ok lol
Can’t knock his greatness he’s one of the best all time like it or not
😂 Yeah! We’re all witnessing still the greatness and rarity of ‘Bron but it’s just funny to see Stephen Jax sitting in on this when he’s been trying to tear the man down - to no avail!!
LeCoach, LeGM, LePlayer
Steve look so sour when coach talking bout Bron
You guys gotta get LeBron on the show, while he's still a player. Then you could do the retirement show too
Youre starting to see Stephen Jacksons tone/view change on Bron cause Bron is inevitable. Still cooking the NBA 21 years later.
Avenger
21 year old lebron james. 25 points in the 4th against the pistons who were 3 years removed from the championship. SHEESH.
Mike Browns' hands are super white
Mike Brown one of the releast frfr
Jordan’s winning philosophy goes out the window when you get to the finals early and lose you stop caring about the losses over Jordan who couldn’t get there so once he did he won. The Motto was “Jordan never lost” and “6-0” bron at 22 failed to do that. Changes your prospective especially if your LeBron
Didn’t Lebron shoot under 40% in the finals that year?
Didn't your mom's turn tricks off the Eastcoast
Yes he did and he was swept 🧹 😂 the spurs moped the floor with that hairline 😂
@@FakerFreeTV just like the Celtics mopped the floor with Jordan bald headed ass, it would have been no different lol. 🤣
these hosts can't sit still and quiet when the guests are talking. all the damn acknowledging grunts, all the "mhm", dude let the man speak!!
lol Malone been hating ever since 21 yr old Bron.
The Cavs only beat one Winning Team in that Finals run
What are you talking about? The playoffs is nothing but winning teams hence the playoffs.
Facts
@@theflykingdom he’s actually right 😂 that’s how bad the east was. The nets & wizards were both 41-41, and the pistons were the only winning team
@@theflykingdomyeah, you definitely don't know anything 😂
Well, it was a big one.
Crazy how not even the coach remembers some of those players on that team lol LeBron really carried bums to the final
College age kid dragging his team to the NBA finals is insane 😂
MJ 6/6
MJ only played 6 years?
Funny how the narrative has always been how Lebron gets coaches fired, yet his former coach is telling you that 21yr old Lebron was actually the coach🤣🤣
Lebron James “Help” (26-35yrs old)--
Dwane Wade: 13x All-star 8x All-NBA
Chris Bosh: 11x All-star 1x All-NBA
Kyrie Irving: 11x All-star 5x All-NBA
Kevin Love: 5x All-star 2x All-NBA
Ray Allen*37*38: 10x All-star 2x All-NBA
Anthony Davis: 8x All-star 4x All-NBA
Dwight Howard: 8x All-star 8x All-NBA
Rajon Rondo: 4x All-star 1x All-NBA
Total: 70x All-stars 31x All-NBAs
Michael Jordan “Help” (26-35yrs old)---
Scottie Pippen: 7x All-star 7x All-NBA
Dennis Rodman*36: 2x All-star 2x All-NBA
Horace Grant: 1x All-star 0x All-NBA
BJ Armstrong: 1x All-star 0x All-NBA
Total: 11x All-stars 9x All-NBA
I’m DR just I want to learn… ingles
I understand LeBron lost a lot of times in the finals but man he was special. No one's bringing up Jordan but man LeBron is 2nd all time for a reason.
To yall casuals. He not 2nd at all to me and others. Frfr
He is 3rd all time for a reason
@FakerFreeTV No way he's 3rd. Noone else has done what he did. And If u say Kobe. You're wrong. If Kobe made it work with Shaq he may have been there but now no way.
@@ThrifterGuy MJ Kobe Then lebron
@@ThrifterGuy Lebron ain’t nowhere near better than Kobe or Jordan
“LEBRON”
The cavs beat two 41 win teams and then the pistons who wade just beat the year before but they traded ben wallace what is iconic about that?
*wade with Shaq
Don’t forget they beat the nets, who were in the finals a couple years prior
Wizards had two all stars even after Gil went down,the nets had 2 all stars with another 20+ scorer. The pistons had 3 all stars while being the staple of the conference. All these teams also had winning records. The 41 win need beat the 47 Win raptors to even make the second round. Wade also had allstar Shaq the year before & good all around team.
Mike and Gibert Arenas low key sound alike
And LeBron losing this is part of why people knock his goat status? People are even dumber than i imagined lol
Was that the same team the beat Kobe an the lakers
with all the starting 5 except for Ben Wallace, that was replaced with Chris Webber
Yes but it was them 3 years removed from their championship team.
jordan would of lost first round with the same cavs that bron got to finals with.
Bring in sabonis
Beating two .500% teams in a weak conference en route to being swept is "iconic"? 🤣🤣🤣
Right such a iconic feat 😂
Its sad...tha you're here watching a video about leGOAT , hating....yall bronsexuals are persistent 😂😂
One of those .500 teams had to beat a team that's over .500 to reach the semis. So, stop the cap!
@@ainsleypagon8261 Bron didn't beat them 🤣🤣🤣 sit tf back down in your highchair
Bron always end up with goofy ass coaches
Played two .500 clubs in the weak Eastern conference then played Det without Ben Wallace just to get swept in the finals. Iconic? Got it
lol Ben Wallace wasn't even on that team that year, genius.
Crazy to think lebron says in so many words ur the one of the worst coaches he ever had
Wow so no mention of game 6 vs pistons ECF lebron goes 3/11 carrying the cavs go finals!!We really rewrote history and completely ignore lebron awful play most of that ECF
this why we lost cuz mike can't coach
Overrated. His teammates saved his ass
Young and Black. 🫡 you had a great run and an historic experience 🔥
Its hilarious to hear people overhype the people he worked with in his first stint in Cleveland. They were only any good because of Bron
Not true. A lot of those guys were doing the same things before playing with Lebron. He may have made things easier for them but he didn’t make them good.
@@brendanbloom3366 the team was any good. Of course they were good individually cause they made the NBA. The team success came because LeBron was the best player
Too bad Lebrons not that dude at end of games
Lebron has more points in the 4th quarter then you're boy Jordan in the playoffs.
@@Ghost-rb6cw I’d certainly hope so he’s played 6 more seasons than Jordan
That has nothing to do with longevity lol. 😂
Lebron didn't show up in finals. They talk bad about his teammates but they had a top 5 defense. Mike Brown put together a great game plan against Spurs they were close games and easily could've won if LeBron showed up offensively
Nevermind that they were quintuple teaming him
@@houseofsquared bro he missed alot of open jump shots stop rewriting history lol
@AP11634 Bruce Bowen said "It takes a village" Is that rewriting?
Sooo you didn’t listen when coach just said that the rest of the team couldn’t really score offensively? How they only played one way the whole year and that hindered their success? Some people just don’t listen….
@@TheProtagonistdiaries bro the games were close . They lost one game by 1 one by 3 and the other two by nine that were winnable. They played great defense. LeBron teammates didn't show up n he didn't either offensively. He averaged 22 points and shot 34 percent from field. They could've beat Spurs if he played like he did in round before against Detroit. Detroit was just as good as San Antonio at that time.