The day after his team beat the Los Angeles Clippers by 13 points, Cavaliers head coach David Blatt was fired.

This move, initially causing speculation that the Cavs would be going after Golden State interim coach Luke Walton for the job, was jaw dropping. The team was first in the Eastern Conference with a record of 30 wins and 11 losses. Shortly after, associate head coach and former NBA point guard Tyronn Lue signed a multi-year extension to serve as head coach.

After the dust had settled, one question remained. Why?

According to cleveland.com’s Cavaliers beat writer Chris Haynes, Blatt was leading the team down a barren path.

“Player accountability, mismanaging, a building frustration and the absence of hope led to David Blatt’s ouster as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers,” Haynes wrote.

Looking at the Cavs season thus far, it does seem like those were the reasons for Blatt’s departure. The team wasn’t clicking like they were at the end of last season. Is that Blatt’s fault? Could be.

Regardless, the Lue-led squad was beaten in his first game as head coach by the Chicago Bulls by a final score of 96 to 83.

Could it be because of the fact that Lue couldn’t change much of anything in 24 hours? Maybe. With his experience of “running” a team on the court, Lue could drastically help the team in the coming weeks.

Yes, David Blatt was a head coach before. However, that was in Europe—a completely different game than the NBA. Lue, who has been in the league in some capacity since 1998, is more fit for the position due to his longevity in the league.

Putting experience aside, we have to look at knowledge. Chris Haynes also mentioned that Blatt was reluctant to bring up poor play and was an unusual coach with questionable decision making.

“During the first portion of the 2014-15 season, film sessions were a topic of discussion among the players,” Haynes said. “Blatt was reluctant to criticize star players even when they clearly messed up a play. This became routine. It got so bad that I’m told that Lue finally intervened, stood up and demanded that somebody rewind the footage so that he could get on members of The Big 3.

“During team scrimmages, players competed aggressively but bit their tongues as Blatt frequently blew his whistle to call ticky-tack or phantom fouls for his go-to players. One player said sometimes Blatt didn’t even have a whistle and would yell at the top of his lungs to stop play and call a foul if one of his stars acted as if he was hit.

“It was viewed as a blatant attempt to get in the good graces of his top talent. Blatt’s leadership was in question. Players grew tired of this treatment. The locker room started resenting Blatt’s handling, or lack thereof, when it came to dealing with his stars.

“Word circulated to cleveland.com that Blatt had trouble drawing up plays out of timeouts. He would freeze up and waste precious seconds, one player said. He would even draw up plays for players who weren’t in the game, another player said.”

In the closeout game of the Eastern Conference Finals, a game the Cavaliers trounced the Atlanta Hawks by 30 to sweep the series; Blatt had signaled for Tristan Thompson to reenter in the closing minutes with the game already wrapped up. This was when Thompson was the team’s most valuable big man with Kevin Love out of commission with a dislocated shoulder.

“The bench couldn’t believe it. They were shocked, as was Thompson, who never questions authority. LeBron James told Blatt to put somebody else in the game, out of concern a key cog might get hurt before The Finals, a league source said. Kendrick Perkins got the nod, and a few minutes later, Brendan Haywood’s number was called to finish it out.”

General Manager David Griffin was able to recognize that the dumbfoundedness and oddity of David Blatt as well as the separation of the squad was no way to run a team.

“What I see is that we need to build a collective spirit, a strength of spirit, a collective will,” Griffin said in his press conference announcing the change. “Elite teams always have that, and you see it everywhere. To be truly elite, we have to buy into a set of values and principles that we believe in. That becomes our identity.”

Will Lue turn the team around? Right now, it’s tough to say. Five months from now though, when the Cavs are soaring through the Eastern Conference in the playoffs, Griffin and owner Dan Gilbert will be able to relax with the closure they receive from the team’s success.