Heej wrote:MavsDirk41 wrote:Heej wrote:What? Michael Finley was a walking bucket back then and Juwan was an elite role player, and let's not disrespect Young Nash who was already breaking out in Dallas.
The fact that the games were close is a testament to how much impact LeBron was able to muster, despite Mike Brown getting embarrassingly outcoached. Captain Jack (dunno if you know who that is, but ask Serge Ibaka if you don't) literally had a whole clip on his podcast with Matt Barnes talking about how the Spurs knew Mike Brown's entire playbook inside and out and the Cavs played right into their hands.
Also very amusing to me how in LeBron's one other poor Finals showing, Spoelstra similarly got pantsed by Rick Carlisle playing into the Mavs game plan of zoning up on LeBron and turning him into a passer because Spoelstra was playing lineups with 3-4 non-spacers and didn't have any zone-beating concepts installed into his offense.
But tbh most people have a very casual sense of what actually goes into winning a playoff series and how many moving parts it takes to work together. I would think to people like that they see it as an absolute failure of a playoff run by LeBron that's when he gets eliminated and likely don't stop to think how difficult it is to win with a team developing its identity.
I guess fortunately for other player fans like Jordan, Kobe, Curry, etc. people are willing to overlook the growing pains years when it comes to developing an identity with the coaching staff because the losses occurred early in the playoffs. Meanwhile LeBron gets penalized because his developing scheme/identity losses came in the Finals.
But do I expect most people to comprehend ball at this level? No. I expect to be met with responses that project the insecurity of coming up with excuses for valid criticisms to Pathological LeBron Hater Logic on to me.
Nothing but excuses. Typical from a james fan tho its expected. Carlise devised a game plan to make James a passer lol. Just excuse after excuse.
Read the last paragraph and cope and seethe over how you perfectly played out my prediction. Pathological LeBron Haters have begun to lose their fastball and now it's just predictable and altogether too easy
Call me a lebron james hater but you are just a silly little fan boy who is sitting here making up excuses on why he sucked in the 2011 finals lol. Miami was 58-24 in the regular season in 2011 and 12-3 in the playoffs prior to the finals but your responses are that its Spos fault and developing team/chemistry? Garbage man. I admit Dirk failed in the 06 finals but you dont have it in you to admit that maybe just maybe your hero failed.
. The only one that even comes close aka the 93 Suns weren't even in the same stratosphere defensively as the teams LeBron faced in every single Finals.
