No Matter How Good a Coach David Blatt May Be, Is He Right for LeBron James?

May 12th, 2015 by Ethan Skolnick Leave a reply »
CLEVELAND — Not even a game-winning shot in the conference semifinals is suitable to serve as the lead to the next day's sportscast—not in this Cavaliers season, not when there's a firestorm to be fueled. So there we were Monday, the media mob, angling for anything to advance the assumption of animus, the sense that, seven months in, there are still significant cracks in the collaboration between LeBron James and David Blatt.

Turned out there were no additional eruptions, certainly none strong enough to send any more hot takes streaming like molten lava across the sports landscape. Just explanations, the embattled coach and empowered star restating their interpretations about what had occurred and, more notably in the minds of many, almost occurred in Sunday's 86-84 Game 4 win in Chicago, when Blatt tried unsuccessfully to call a timeout he didn't have, and then called an inbounds play James immediately, unapologetically and (for the Cavaliers' purposes) thankfully overruled, later letting the world know that he did so.

Monday, Blatt confidently countered any claims of incompetence, while James summarily dismissed any insinuations ...

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