However, "when KG has 13 points mainly out of the low post in the first quarter and then they go away from him like him Game One. Or in game four when he had 13 at halftime but they didn't keep going to him" - that is not execution, that's poor playcalling and poor reading of the game.
"when Paul Pierce is killing every Hawk wing off the midpost and then Rondo stops going to him" and "when Rondo dribbles the ball up, then doesn't make the quick pass to start the offense. Instead he holds onto it for the first 8-10 seconds of the offense which is happening far too often" is not execution, again, it's playcalling. If it's Rondo calling the plays, then I'll take it back, Rondo is more to blame than Doc, though I wonder why we're suddenly giving him playcalling control in the playoffs when we've run everything through Pierce and KG during the season.
Playcalling is execution. Recognition is execution. Understanding of your best weapons is execution (coaching has it's place here too).
Doc has his team run sets rather than precise plays so recognition of what to do stands with the players. If this were a Rick Carlisle team he'd be telling Rondo what to do on every possession and then Rick would be
more responsible for end product. That's not how Doc coaches. It's also not how Phil Jackson coaches or Rick Adelman or D'Antoni. They give their players the room to make decisions like Doc does. The players are
more responsible for those decisions in these types of offenses.
Thing is, nobody disagrees with the fact that Mike Brown and Mike Woodson aren't good coaches. Most of us know that. The problem is, Brown is doing better than Doc. He saw in Games 1 and 2 we were doubling Lebron with a big man whenever he got a whiff of the paint. So, he got his big men to get into open space for shots and that's how they got rolling in Game 3 and blew it open before the end of the first. Doc has yet to make any such adjustment. It's not by a wide margin, but he is doing better than Doc.
You see this makes no sense to me
To me this sounds like Brown did a bad job all season and put his team in a worse position to win but this shouldn't count for the playoffs. We gotta give bad coaches a handicap and then judge them.
This makes no sense to me
If Mike Brown did a better job during the regular season his team's offense would be better and his team would be in a better position to win this series. Why should he get a handicap for failure?
My bottom line is that Mike Brown's terrible coaching on offense is worse than any and all mistake(s) Doc has made in this series. That's why I don't think he's outcoaching him.
I also think Mike Brown has made mistakes on his side of the aisle during this series. Joe Smith's minutes would be top of my list. He should be playing a lot more. They're a different team when they have his offense on the floor. He defends KG well and he's a quality rebounder. He should be playing more minutes. In the two games they won he played 24-25 minutes as opposed to 16-19 minutes in the first two, and he only got 19 minutes cause Ben got dizzy. I regard him as their second best big man in the lineup and he's getting the least minutes of the four.
Doc did make an adjustment prior to the series begining. The defense we're playing on LeBron James isn't our normal defense and it's been very succesful.
As you said Doc has used the big men to limit Bron's penetration (part of the Bron adjustment). Doc is using KG on Ben in a similar manner to Brown using Delonte on Rondo; to consistently cheat off their man to limit an opposing team's best player.
Plus I don't agree with the adjustment you cited for Mike Brown. Ilgauskas was outside shooting jumpers throughout games one and two. Varajeo hasn't suddenly killed us from outside and neither has Ben Wallace. Joe Smith is doing the same thing he always does, he just hit shots (7-8 in game three instead of 2-7 in game two). I haven't seen what you described but I'll look for it, maybe I missed it.
The Cavs did have more player movement offensively (in games 3+4) but that was mainly down to their perimeter players
The single biggest difference by a huge margin is they're just making more of their shots and that's not a Mike Brown adjustment. That's just players shooting the ball better. The series didn't swing on anything he did. Just like the Celtics performance didn't change on the road because of anything Doc did. Cavs shot better, Celtics executed their offense worse.
Things aren't working. Offensively, they weren't working in Games 1 or 2, but we made no effort to adjust for Games 3 or 4. Doc stands by his belief the players have to do better. That might be true, but this is the problem we've all seen with Doc for years. When our players aren't doing better, he does absolutely nothing to help the situation, he just sticks with what doesn't work and makes haphazard rotation decisions.
I completely agree that the offense isn't working
Here's a good stat I read from the daily links today - The Celtics were held below 90 points only 11 times over the course of the regular season. They've yet to crack 90 against the Cavs this series.