There was a report that Blatt’s assistant coach Tyronn Lue was calling timeouts behind his back and then there is the situation with LeBron not having his back, but Blatt says it is all nonsense.
“Ty, if you know Ty, he’s a very vocal and active guy — an assistant can’t call a timeout in an NBA game, if you didn’t know that,” Blatt said. “Now, if he sees something, he feels something and he yells something out to alert me what he thinks, I don’t have a problem with that. I listen to what I think I need to listen to and what I don’t think I need to listen to.
“That’s a lot of — I’m trying to find a nice word for it because I’m talking to the public — well, that’s a lot of nonsense and I think it’s kind of cheap, to be honest with you. I really do.”
Blatt blames social media for a lot of the rumors that he doesn’t have control of the team and they don’t like each other.
“You know in this day and age if you want to shoot a video from the sideline or from a camera on your phone, you can pretty much create anything you want,” Blatt said. “You guys know it better than I, I’m not a social media expert, but you can create almost any image that you want if you want. Things are fine, things are great amongst our staff. In the locker room, things are great. We just need to get out there, win basketball games, get everybody back on the same page as we were a few weeks ago when we were rolling pretty good.”
Good luck with all that.