SAN FRANCISCO – Ime Udoka has drawn some attention during these NBA Finals for his blunt and – oh, let’s go with “vivid” as the euphemism – approach to telling his team what he thinks when they’re performing poorly, or selfishly, or like … well, you know.
But as tempting as it might be for the Celtics coach to break out the thesaurus and pepper them with all the derisive adjectives they have coming their way after Monday’s maddening 104-94 loss to the Warriors in Game 5, a different kind of bluntness is warranted as this often remarkable but too often frustrating season dangles in the balance.