Those who know me, know I am a card-carrying member of the “Coaches Can Only Do So Much” Club. I subscribe to Sam Mitchell’s “Jimmy and Joes not the Xs and Os” theory too. At the end of the day, in the highest-stake situations, coaches are most limited by who they can actually play, more so than what plays they can call.
Look at the Raps last hurrah with Dwane Casey. His choices to guard LeBron James boiled down to second-year pro OG Anunoby and aging vet C.J. Miles. What else was there?