It’s been a rough “go” thus far for the NBA’s oldest rookie, 66-year-old Cavalier head coach John Beilein. Monday his team of professional ballers became the season’s fourth squad (Brooklyn, Philly and Sacramento the others) to miss more free throws than they made during a full game.
The most discouraging part of it all for the franchise’s 21st bench leader had to be that those foul-line frolics were irrelevant to the outcome.
Curiously, the Celtics have been the beneficiaries of such “foul” shooting twice (the Nets on Thanksgiving Eve, the other). Incidentally, Boston’s bodacious Free-throw Defense (.