Fairview4Life wrote:eyeatoma wrote:Bergmaniac wrote:This thread keeps on giving, this is why I love the General Board. People doubling down on their hot takes is so funny.
This nonsense again. It was a great carry job by LeBron, but his Cavs weren't "basically G league quality players". Sure, they were very limited offensively, but it was a really excellent defensive team and LeBron back then wasn't quite defensive player he was in his prime. Among his teammates were Ilgauskas, who was in the league for a total of 13 years and earned 125 mln. in salaries, Drew Gooden, who was in the league for 14 years, Larry Hughes, who spent 14 total years in the league and earned 85 mln. in total, Varejao, who was in the league for 14 years and earned 84 mln, etc. Even Sasha Pavlovic, the closest one to a "scrub" among their main rotation guys that year, was in the league for 10 years.
That team is worse than the Nuggets this year, last year, and the year that Jokic when to the WCF. You can throw accomplishments all you want, the only one who was a former all star was Ilguaskas, who was way past his prime. Well yeah they were a good defensive team, that's why the made the finals, but as you know you need to also score the ball, and facilitate.
Could Lebron have taken that Cavs team to the finals in the west?
would be sweeped in first round by SAS (as in Finals)