Cavs fought tooth and nail just to beat the Warriors when they had Harrison Barnes instead of KD.. They had no shot in 2017. The 2017 Cavs had a historic offense but an awful defense that had no shot at stopping the greatest offense of all time. They had Love, Kyrie, Deron Williams corpse, Kyle Korver, Channing Frye all playing significant minutes, you really think that's a team that could compete defensively against the Warriors? The fact that two games came down to the wire is a testament to Lue's game plan. Curry is the head of the snake, the Warriors become a hell of a lot more beatable when you're able to limit him as best as you can.Lol man the revisionist history history nikkas be doing
that 2017 matchup the series coulda easily been 2-2 going into game 5, Cavs had that 4 min stretch in game 3 where they couldn’t get bucket and KD proceeded to hit the shot on Bron
2017 Cavs were defending champions and had best player in the game and Kyrie along with a handpicked mob by LeBron, let’s not act like the series couldn’t have been close or anything, Lue makes the game plan but players play, KD outperformed everybody, so bad to the point people were really convincing themselves the Cavs had no chance
Truth is KD is such an efficient scorer he don’t really need to play make, he is the playmaker
KD has never needed to be a playmaker because he's always played with an elite PG. We've never seen KD on a team like the 2021 Warriors, 2003-2009/2018 Cavs, 2017 Thunder, 2017 Rockets, etc. He's consistently had a MVP caliber creator to shoulder the playmaking burden. Kawhi is similar to KD in that he exclusively focuses on scoring and we saw how his team collapsed last year when he didn't have a playmaker to stabilize the offense.
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