LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie

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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#61 » by OkcSinceSGA » Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:32 pm

Jables wrote:Kyrie literally hit the clutch game 7 shot to win a championship, weird stretch. Being a piece of **** anti vaxxer doesn't change his ability, just like when LeBron was hesitant to get the jab.


Why would not wanting this vaccine make him a piece of ****? You guys are so weird, and seem to have a tendency towards tyranny. By “you guys” I mean anyone with this kind of self righteous mindset regarding the Covid vaccine. Enjoy your every 6 month shot.

As for the topic... Kyrie was clearly the best player in that series and LeBron owes him credit as well.
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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#62 » by Bankai » Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:42 pm

Totally. An alpha like Lebron is one of the few that can keep Kyrie in line. Sadly, Kyrie wanted out from Lebron's shadow and wanted out. Since then, Kyrie has burned bridges every where he went. Despite that, their are Kyrie stans who still believe in his talent, even with the baggage.
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Post#63 » by HEAT33 » Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:58 pm

What a load of BS. Kyrie was normal at one point, Lebron was lucky Kyrie didn’t go all weird on him. Nobody is stopping that
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Post#64 » by Kingdibs19 » Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:01 pm

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As for the topic... Kyrie was clearly the best player in that series and LeBron owes him credit as well.


Tf? Do you actually watch basketball outside the Clippers and whatever your next bandwagon team is ?
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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#65 » by OkcSinceSGA » Thu Oct 14, 2021 11:35 pm

Kingdibs19 wrote:
OKCfanSinceSGA wrote:
Jables wrote:
As for the topic... Kyrie was clearly the best player in that series and LeBron owes him credit as well.


Tf? Do you actually watch basketball outside the Clippers and whatever your next bandwagon team is ?


In that series yes, Kyrie was the guy. Surprised you haven’t called out any of the other 20 people in here that said as much. Sounds more like you just want to whine.
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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#66 » by Kingdibs19 » Fri Oct 15, 2021 12:02 am

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OKCfanSinceSGA wrote:


Tf? Do you actually watch basketball outside the Clippers and whatever your next bandwagon team is ?


In that series yes, Kyrie was the guy. Surprised you haven’t called out any of the other 20 people in here that said as much. Sounds more like you just want to whine.


Nobody said Kyrie was the best player in that series except you. Lebron led both teams in every category. He was the best player and it’s not even close. Sounds like you didn’t watch that series and just remember the highlight of Kyrie’s shot.
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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#67 » by OkcSinceSGA » Fri Oct 15, 2021 12:10 am

Kingdibs19 wrote:
OKCfanSinceSGA wrote:
Kingdibs19 wrote:
Tf? Do you actually watch basketball outside the Clippers and whatever your next bandwagon team is ?


In that series yes, Kyrie was the guy. Surprised you haven’t called out any of the other 20 people in here that said as much. Sounds more like you just want to whine.


Nobody said Kyrie was the best player in that series except you. Lebron led both teams in every category. He was the best player and it’s not even close. Sounds like you didn’t watch that series and just remember the highlight of Kyrie’s shot.


Lebron being a better overall player isn’t mutually exclusive with Kyrie being the guy who hit timely shots, closed the series out or pushed them over the top. For those reasons I consider him the best that series, or at Absolute worst equally important. Without game five Kyrie they absolutely do not come back in that series.

I’m also not judging based on one shot. Kyrie was coming up big all series long. As others already pointed out he had a monster series why would he have to thank LeBron for anything?

Maybe the better wording on my part would be most important rather than a better player. Kyrie was white took them over the edge for the come back not LeBron
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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#68 » by KuruptedCav » Fri Oct 15, 2021 12:11 am

The High Cyde wrote:Lol no he doesn’t, Kyrie wasn’t a woke god back then :P

Oh… he was special…


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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#69 » by narmerguy » Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:19 am

fourtyounce48 wrote:
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DCasey91 wrote:Lebron has carried a lot of sub par players to championships

He’s also won with stars who was in their or out of prime and fell off quick.

Look at Bosh, Wade, Thompson, Love and Irving, Big Z, Hughes etc etc.

The before and after effect. Even roleplayers

Let’s be honest Delly is a hot potato lol

He really is the GOAT floor raiser.

I mean some lists without is such a bad bad team like number one pick convo lotto bad.


This is what is fascinating and unfortunate about Lebron's career. If you look on the surface, the names of the players he's played with sound breathtaking. But when you go in closer, for example looking at that Miami team, Wade and Bosh for half of that run were not playing at superstar levels despite their team being assembled with them taking up superstar portions of the cap. Similar for Kevin Love.

Compare this to someone like Durant, who, when he played with superstars like Steph or DPOY like Draymond, they actually delivered the performance commensurate with their reputation (and salary).

It is what it is, but it's interesting that LBJ really has had an exhausting level of responsibility on his supposed superteams. Even now, the current lakers look like doodoo (imo) and I suspect he will not be doing the coasting he and his fans imagined when this team was assembled.


This is what happens when you play Lebronball. Every star player that Lebron has played with sacrificed personal stats to benefit Lebron.


"to benefit lebron" is a pretty skewed way of saying "to benefit the team". No one is out there trying to help Lebron put up numbers. Also, Kyrie and AD haven't really had to sacrifice anything to play with Lebron aside from sharing the ball, which is true of every superstar. Bosh sacrificed on the Heat, but if anything thats more because he was the 3rd most effective offensive threat, and the team could not afford a big man who had a defensive presence that was not total ass on offense so he played more 5 and also had to develop his 3-point spacing. None of that is specific to Lebron, that's just the holes in the roster when you have 3 max guys on the team.
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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#70 » by Jkam31 » Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:27 am

Doranku wrote:Kyrie thoroughly outplayed the unanimous MVP over the course of a 7 game finals series. Let's not diminish what he did on the court because of his off the court issues.


They’re not diminishing what he did in the court cause he got “woke” they’re doing it to try and prop up lebron like they always do with everything it’s embarrassing
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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#71 » by ShazamDaShiznt » Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:34 am

Kyrie simply can't handle the fame he got. He was a cool interesting flashy player in the small market until Bron showed up and they had ALL attention on their team. Reminds me of Deron Williams, though Nets weren't as good or as popular as the Cavs, but for a guy like Deron it was a culture shock coming from Utah to New York state.

Kyrie is letting fame distract him from actually concentrating on playing basketball.
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Post#72 » by HEAT33 » Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:38 am

Kyrie wasn’t a head case before, it’s just the last few years he has started to become loopy
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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#73 » by Goomba3666 » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:06 am

Lost92Bricks wrote:Kyrie averaged 31 PPG on 51/47/95 shooting from games 3-7. And hit the series winning shot in game 7.


Thread should've ended after this. Lol.

Outplayed the unanimous MVP, iso'd him at the most active arena in basketball, and hit the game winning shot over him to secure the bag.

Poor Lebron, though.
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Re: LeBron needs credit for winning with Kyrie 

Post#74 » by Marrrcuss » Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:21 pm

Kyrie was right there and they dont win without him.

Going as far to say he was best? Nah, youre one of those people who see lebron and see the daddy that always beat momma and them or that daddy that left the family to struggle. That just how stupid that is.

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