Elhassan has a different angle on the Windhorst "Lebron calls the plays" stuff.
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/72874/david-blatt-vs-lebron-james-2
I think it's just part of his personality, along with the incessant clapping and "good job, good effort" stuff.
Lets see, the dialogue in the video starts off with one Espn reporter asking why fans were shocked about Windy's "revelation" concerning Blatt and Elhassan explaining that fans don't know NBA basketball because they are college basketball fans and are used to seeing coaches shout orders to the players constantly. In other words, ESPN makes up a story and then makes up that people are shocked by the story and finally insults the readers by saying that they are shocked because they don't really understand the basketball they are fans of.
So after this most eloquent beginning he addresses Windy's argument that Blatt echoes Lebron's plays. It turns out the problem was not in Windy's argument but on people focusing on the wrong part of the argument. (Again making baseless assumptions.) He goes on to say that because fans are "ignorant" about the game, they focused on the wrong part of Windy's argument. (seems mildly condescending to me, personally...) Luckily, unlike us fans, ESPN would never take anything a coach or player said or did out of context.
At this point, I can just imagine that if anyone pointed out that Elhassan is calling fans ignorant, another ESPN writer would come out any say that the listeners were again being ignorant as they were focusing on the wrong part of Elhassan's argument, so lets let this first part go to avoid such an unfortunate situation.
Anyway, so he goes on to repeat twice that Blatt echoing Lebron's play-calling is what is interesting! How fascinating, it undoubtedly must be true if he said it twice. Apparently Doc Rivers would never echo Chris Paul playcall, unlike Blatt, haha. (Well, they were smiling while the sentence was said, so I assume it's meant to be said in a mocking way and we should all obviously join in.) So there can be two reasons for this echoing, the first, at face value, is that Blatt is simply reinforcing the play for anyone that might have not noticed Lebron calling it by repeating the same play. Yup, sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Ok, I think I will end this analysis here!
However, upon reflection I decided that it would be unfair to Elhassan if I stopped here. So I continued to listen and it turns out that there is also a 'darker' reason for him echoing the plays: It shows that Blatt is "insecure" because he comes from a non NBA background. I was really shocked to learn that Blatt is a first year coach in the league. Who would have thought... Lets crucify and mock him for it! Hmm... Or I guess we could take things at face value and choose the first option, that Blatt is simply reinforcing plays. Anyway, apparently in College and Europe, the coach is the star and must maintain a semblance of control and by allowing players to call plays, they lose that control... So in other words, he is claiming that basketball coaches in Europe don't allow players to call plays. He's technically also claiming that NBA coaches don't maintain a semblance of control over their teams... But we will let that go for now as he is obviously trying to build up an argument that says that it is uncommon for coaches to allow players to call plays and he just worded his argument badly.
Well, I hate to say this, but Elhassan is wrong. European coaches do let players call plays because it is a professional/adult basketball league... In college it might be different because players are there to study how to play basketball. But, I guess, to Elhassan's credit he did end his argument by saying that he is not trying to say that Blatt does this... Followed by saying that his interpretation is just explaining the "negative undertone of what that tidbit means".
A this point, the person interviewing asks if Elhassan is essentially saying that... Windy's argument... Elhassan replies, yes and adds a few words that are rendered meaningless by his earlier observation that he is essentially giving a negative subjective interpretation of Blatt's actions. Which really reinforces the impression that ESPN analysts are seeing things in a biased negative point of view.
I hope you found my interpretation of Elhassan's interpretation of Windy's interpretation of Blatt's actions interesting.
If you don't have time to read this long analysis of Elhassan's argument. All, he is really saying is that "fans are ignorant" in a condescending manner as a way to delegitimize the widespread criticism of Windy's words and some other less important things in light of how the rest is all the subjective opinion of someone who uses a manipulative style of discourse. (Edited to clarify why Elhassan's use of ignorance is problematic...)