How often are you supposed to remind the guy, though? This was a sequence that was pretty continuous, from the inbounds play, to Chicago going the other way, to the Cavs coming back and Blatt trying to call a time out. He probably was told the number of timeouts less than a minute before, and he's obviously watching the game very closely. Is it really smart for an assistant to distract him at that point and say "Coach, we don't have any timeouts left", when it's something that he as essentially just told? Are they supposed to keep reminding him every 30 seconds?
I just can't blame the assistants for that.
What we think doesn't really matter? It's what they were told to do. If an assistant was told to spin in circles whenever we run out of timeouts and he fails to do so ... he's failed.
That's quite a bit different from claiming that "all evidence" points to Lue.
I was talking about evidence involving the role of Cavalier assistants and timeouts:
We know Lue was aware of the situation, because he stood up and grabbed Blatt. We know Lue keeps track of timeouts because it's part of his job to help tell Blatt when he should call them. And the media will tell you he's been witnessed calling for timeouts from the bench. We know Lue is the associate head coach of the team, and if any of the assistants had permission to interrupt the HC or players during the game it would be him.
It's not conclusive. It doesn't prove anything, but the interesting thing is it *could* be proven (or disproven) by some pointed questions or by someone who sits close enough to the the bench to observe how the assistants interact during a game.