Collapse!

What went wrong?

That is the biggest question in the minds of Cleveland fans.

The Cavs did everything it could to ensure at least a trip to the NBA Finals this season. Got in Shaq and then traded for Jamison in the mid-season, but still nothing happened.

One thing: Mike Brown and LeBron James don’t really sync well.

This was obvious after their Game 2 defeat in the series against Boston. Brown sees panic, James disagrees. The coach and his best player are not seeing things on the same level. That is catastrophe.

Brown and James have been together for five years and have been through ups and downs season after season. We could assume they are already very familiar with each other that they would have already acquired that Michael Jordan-Phil Jackson mystique. But no, James seems to refuse to see eye to eye with Brown and has a mind of his own approaching a game.

James has got to realize that a coach still is the crafter of a ballgame. He may be the gem that makes the team sparkle, but it is the coach who must fit him to the rest of the ornament to complete the ring, so to speak. Mike and Phil understood these roles so well they successfully created a basketball dynasty and made themselves legends in the sport. Of course, it did not come easy for both, Chicago had to wait seven years before Jordan could hand them a championship trophy. James eyed the same goal seven years ago when he arrived in Cleveland, but so far he only has his eyes on the trophy and not his hands.

James’ stubbornness eventually did him in. He takes no criticisms and yet cannot prove his critics wrong.

Brown simply cannot control him.

One has to go.

And your guess is as good as mine. 

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