Repeating mistakes and expecting different outcomes.
Some would call that insanity. Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Brown calls it an offensive game plan.
The coach was discussing deadline acquisition Spencer Hawes when he inadvertently indicted his offensive system the way his critics have been doing for years.
SBNation.com's James Herbert shared the coach's foot-in-mouth comments on Twitter:
The lack of offensive complexity isn't all that surprising.
Brown's a student of the "let's see" movement. As in, "everyone get out of Kyrie Irving's way, and let's see what he can do." It didn't look completely atrocious when the floor was opening up for LeBron James, but it was bad even back then.
Still, some NBA coaches are more vanilla than others. There's nothing groundbreaking there, although I'm not sure why Brown felt that the need to communicate that tidbit to the media.
Where things really get troubling is toward the end of the quote.
Hawes looked like he'd mailed it in weeks ago. He was shooting 31.6 percent for the month of February before the trade a ...
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Mike Brown Inadvertently Admits His Offense Is Awfully Simple
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