8. Another Year for David Blatt
Head Coach David Blatt will be entering his second season as an NBA head coach, and he admitted last year was more difficult that he initially thought it was going to be:
“When I came to the NBA I was under the impression that this was going to be a breeze. I’ve been coaching for 23 years at the highest level in Europe. I coached in the national-team environment, coached professional teams, coached Euroleague teams and I thought I thought I knew basketball and I thought I knew how to coach. Which, in my mind, I did.
But I realized that when I came over here it was a very, very different game with a whole new set of problems and a whole slew of things to deal with inside and outside of the game.”
Following an NBA Finals appearance in his first season as head coach and the growing pains that came with coaching three All-Stars on one team, Blatt will be better prepared in his second season on the job.
