CLEVELAND – As basketballs bounced and sneakers squeaked on the court, Ron Adams stood on the baseline and took it all in.
From his esteemed vantage point, there’s a lot to survey.
In the moment, there’s the “super team” he’s a vital part of as the lead defensive assistant for the Golden State Warriors, who now stand one win away from a second championship in three years and an unprecedented 16-0 path to get there.
But his vision also stretches far and wide across the NBA landscape, across seven organizations in a quarter century’s time. Most notable were the three years he spent as Tom Thibodeau’s right-hand man in Chicago, the co-architect of a defensive scheme hatched and honed specifically to deal with LeBron James and his formidable basketball super powers.