Even the lowly Pelicans made the mistake trying to run the offense thru AD when Boogie went down. Yup they
ran it thru Boogie until he tore the achillies:
"One thing, when he first went down, was we really missed his playmaking and his passing. We ran so much of the offense through him. So, we just kind of turned to (Rajon) Rondo, who was kind of sacrificing because we did so much through Cuz and a little less through Rondo. So, that was an adjustment to put the ball in his hands more and let him run the show.
One thing I got wrong, was I thought we would need AD to be more of a facilitator in the middle of the floor, and he did a good job with that his first few games. So he was looking to score and pass, but I think I messed him up."
In short, that's just Lebron looking for off-season attention again. You can't run a offense thru a guy with limited facilitating skills/scorer like AD. I'm
sure he's been around long enough to know that.
P.S. The above quote is from Gentry's assistant Chris Finch who was in charge of the offense then.