humanrefutation wrote:
Kyrie is better than everyone in that second tier with the possible exception of Conley - Kyrie is a significantly better scoring option than Conley but Conley plays much better defense.
And as a pure scoring option, the only PG in Kyrie's league is Steph - it's a close race because Kyrie is a better finisher than Steph is. He's a 47/40/90 guy who can get to the bucket almost at will. It's amazing that people could watch him these last two finals and not give him credit for how hard he is to guard on the offensive side of the ball.
In this finals, Kyrie had 2 stellar games, 2 poor ones, and one ok game. Was he really that great overall?
When LeBron has a series like that (see 2010 vs Celtics) he's ripped to shreds. People don't look at his statline - 27/9/7 on 56 TS - and say he had a great series (2014 finals is another example). Instead they actually examine it game by game. But for Kyrie it's different, the efficient 29/4/4 statline is posted and it even gets referred to as historically great.
I get that the expectations are completely different, but it's just funny how that works.
ETA: How big is your impact really when you play that poorly in games 1 and 2? He doesn't make the game easier on anyone else so when he's not scoring, where is the impact? (certainly not on D). I do think Kyrie could get the level where a lot of people currently have him but it's going to take a different mental approach (especially when LeBron's not on the court).
