Even for Joe, two straight games of poor end-game decision-making is impressive.
Not sure what was worse - the awful end-game plays in regulation or the lack of adjustment with KP getting killed all fourth and OT on the mismatches.
Lots of blame to go around, but another masterpiece from Joe.
Joe specifically said afterwards that they were experimenting with 1-5 switches. Probably because that's what killed us in the 22 Finals? Obviously he went away from it after Murray burned KP three times in a row.
Deciding to experiment in OT in a game in which you've played your starters 40+ minutes is weird, no?
Definitely unconventional, but there's relatively little downside to experimentation when they destroyed everyone this regular season. They locked up the #1 seed. The results don't matter anymore. The regular season results are in- he was an awesome coach this year.
I do agree that we need to watch the playoffs this year to see how good of a coach he is. He's at least average, and has a chance to be better than that given more playoff success.
I was impressed with their comeback against Philly last year, but was bummed out that they lost to Miami.