CLEVELAND -- A day after Charles Barkley said the Atlanta Hawks need to "take somebody out" on the Cavaliers to make their Eastern Conference semifinals series competitive again, Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue admonished TNT's popular NBA analyst for his stance.
"I don't think there's any place in our game to take someone out if they're playing well," Lue said on a conference call with reporters Thursday. "I think you can take it upon yourself to play harder and do things to stop it or stop a team from playing well.
"But when it gets into trying to hurt guys or trying to take guys out, that's just not right.