Lue calls out Cavs' poor conditioning after losing 1st game as coach

If the biggest knock on David Blatt was that he was too deferential to his players, his successor isn't going to make the same mistake.

After the Cleveland Cavaliers dropped his first game as head coach in uninspiring fashion, Tyronn Lue - who was handed the reins and a three-year contract in the immediate wake of Blatt's firing Friday - laid into his team for being out of shape.

Lue blamed poor conditioning for the Cavs' inability to execute the uptempo style of play he wanted to implement, and said it's an issue that could take a couple weeks to fix, according to Jason Lloyd of the Akron Beacon Journal.

Though the Bulls were the team playing on the second night of a road back-to-back, it was the Cavs who looked sluggish. They had a disastrous night offensively, shooting just 37.2 percent from the field and 16.7 percent from 3-point range, and missing 13 of their 22 free-throw attempts.