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It didn't make much sense to ax Paul Silas with 18 games remaining.

Nobody saw that coming. Probably because nobody saw the firing of head coach Paul Silas coming, either. Rarely does a team that is in the midst of a playoff race axe its head coach, especially if it plans on making those postseason reservations. That’s why firing Silas at the end of March with only 18 games remaining in a little less than a month made absolutely no sense. Rumors have circulated that Gilbert was going to fire Silas anyways, as he didn’t see the 61-year old coach as his team’s sideline director of the...

Gilbert effectively took what had been a speed bump in an otherwise breakthrough season and turned it into a massive road block. Don’t try telling the Cavs that making the playoffs this year wasn’t important, as playoff experience is clearly needed for superstar LeBron James to return next year better than ever before. All-Star center Zydrunas Ilgauskas was in the postseason with the Cavs in his rookie season, losing in four games to the Indiana Pacers, and he hasn’t smelled the playoffs since. With the 7′3” center...

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