Stevens is a fine coach but the alter that worships all things he's done is growing tiresome. He had the better team, homecourt advantage and made zero adjustments in Game 7 to help his team. A noted pattern with Stevens coached teams, the bigger the stakes, the slower the pace, and they struggle to score and let opponent dictate things. Their performances in the Final Four included scoring below 60 pts 3 times and (59, 52, and 41) and shot 30.6%, 34.5%, 35.6% and 18% from the field. That latter game was the worst Final Four game I've seen and turned it off at Halftime. The entire conference finals was awful, minus individual performances and how a coach whose team went 11-8 in postseason with 1 road win is lauded as being superior to all coaches in the league is interesting to say the least.
Fans want to see teams score and play offense. Stevens loves to slow things down--which made no sense against Cavs seeing they were depleted and had 1 man who could do anything and if anything, faster the pace favors the deeper team, but it's got to be nice to be labeled a genius and talk of what journey it takes to win a championship when you've never actually won. For all that assume it's a given....didn't they say that about OKC back in the Durant/Westbrook/Harden era?