The Cleveland Cavs were bailed out by a timeless LeBron James buzzer beater in a series-tying 86-84 Game 4 win over the Atlanta Hawks, but all most reporters wanted to talk about after the game were a couple of questionable decisions by Cavs head coach David Blatt in the closing seconds.
Blatt owned up two of those decisions as mistakes on Monday, both when he tried calling a timeout he didn't have along with when he designed a play to have LeBron James passing the ball with 1.5 seconds left on the clock
"Good thing I had great guys behind me to bail me out," said Blatt, via NBA.com. "And then a great player to bail us all out with a terrific shot."
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Blatt understands the criticism that's been directed his way since the end of Game 4 and he's not slinking away from it.
"Yeah, it seems like that's par for the course," Blatt said of the noise surrounding his near-disastrous decisions. "A near-mistake was made and I owned up to it and I own it. A basketball coach makes 150 to 200 critical decisions during the course of a game, something that I think is paralleled only by a fighter pilot. If you do it for 27 years, you're going to blow one or two. And I blew one. Fortunately it didn't cost us."
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