David Blatt Likens Coaching To Being Fighter Pilot

David Blatt tried to call a timeout at the end of the Cleveland Cavaliers' Game 4 win even though they were already out of timeouts.

Tyronn Lue saved Blatt from a calling the timeout.

“A near-mistake was made and I owned up to it and I own it,” Blatt said. “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. 

“As far as the play is concerned, that's just not fair. Sometimes you go with your player’s feeling because you believe in what he can do. That at the end of the day was my decision to go with what he felt. That's just not fair.”