it's lebron, dogg. lebron! not sweeping him isn't a cause for shame in any rational assessment.

kerr did an excellent job this year with this group. imo there's zero chance jackson wins a title w/ the same personnel. he doesn't start barnes over iggy all yr, or green over lee. he doesn't bench bogut in the finals, or implement the offense that finished 1st in the league.

and to make it perfectly clear that i'm talking strictly about coaching and not 'something else', guys like thibs and scotty brooks wouldn't have made those adjustments and implementations either. all those guys are old-school thinkers, and the game is passing them by.