Coaches don’t make championship teams, player do. Worthless to spend our time worrying about this mirror loss. This is like losing 5 cents when you make a million a year.

Is Kuester really that irreplaceable? I really would like Mike Brown to have an “offensive coordinator”, but is Kuester the be-all end-all guy for that?

Gordon just about pushed the Boston game to 7 games by himself. He was excellent in the postseason averaging almost 25 pts a game. He really stepped up his game in that Boston series. Keep Cleveland the same without Shaq, add Gordon and I think that puts Cleveland over the top in the same manner adding Shaq does.

there is no doubt that gordon was excellent in the boston series, but 7 games is too small of a sample to make meaningful conclusions about a player. the guy is good, but he’s never sniffed an all-star game or an all-nba team. let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

if we’re going to get specific about cleveland, it just isn’t true that gordon adds to the cavs in the same manner that shaq does. adding gordon gives us more of the same — an undersized combo guard that needs the ball in his hands — except with worse defense. mo williams’ numbers are better across the board than gordon’s (PER, TS%, ORtg, DRtg, Win Shares and WARP), and delonte west’s are close enough (significantly better in DRtg, most importantly, and $7mm cheaper) that adding gordon would do little to change the cleveland dynamic. in fact, gordon’s defensive numbers are bad enough that he might even detract from the current cavs’ win expectancy.

shaq, on the other hand, addresses a major area of need — for the cavs and much of the league. a legitimate post threat, both offensively and defensively. shaq’s addition makes cleveland a different and better team…gordon wouldn’t have helped much.