Everybody in here going to a different route than the topic at hand
I am not discussing how good of a coach Brad is or what he has done
im talking about this series and how we looked like complete losers.
At home we could not even give them a scare. How sad is that.
They got destroyed today.
I dont care If we got a game, Toronto and Indiana who did not even win one game both were much better at looking like they at least cared but were overmatched.
We just kept on getting annhiliated until Lebron and company looked at it as a complete joke.
When they were serious we had completely no answer.
I do blame that on Brad, its like the team quit, I watched Indiana and Toronto , they were beaten but it looked like an NBA game
This looked like Cleveland played the Orlando Magic
I was at both Games 2 and 5. I was screaming at Brad to put in the guys who were going to play hard.
I think his biggest weakness as a coach is that he is a great tactician and very positive leader who seems really likable but is not a motivator. He is not Pat Riley, and likely never will be anything close to that.
For example, Game 3 turned when he put in Jerebko, who gave the team some nastiness and much need effort on defense and the boards. Maybe the tactics worked as well (he spread the floor and hit some threes) but it was that element that helped spur the team to victory. I don't think Brad's analytical mind values these unquantifiable traits as highly. I don't think Kendrick Perkins would touch the floor on Brad's teams.
When Kyrie got it going in Game 4, or any of the Cavs when to the rack in Game 5, where was the enforcer to say "not here, not in our buidling?" How about just a hard body check, like Jerebko's screen on Deron Williams in Game 3? Where was Brad telling a player to hack someone, flagrant be [dang]ed? Maybe he said that but they sure as hell didn't do it.
Maybe that changes next year with more athleticism, but I need to know why this team felt it was OK to let Cleveland paste them at home without one guy getting thrown out of the game.