That_Casual wrote:Kilroy wrote:tamaraw08 wrote:Did James played a perfect game? Absolutely not!
but to say that Brooks kicked his ass is just plain crazy BS! Dillon needed 14 shots to score 12 points zero offensive rebs, a grand total of 1 rebound while Lebron grabbed 12!
Brooks had 3 assists to 2 turnovers while James had
3 assists to just 1 turnover, would have had more assists if his teammates like D’Lo AD etc made more shots…and
BTW the 38 year old James scored 28 points on 23 shots.
Kilroy didn’t want to blame D’Lo because he said he didn’t expect much from him and yet I guess he was ok for AD to score 13 points, 14 points BELOW his playoff average.
Who was he guarding Tilman or JJJ? I guess it doesn’t matter both of them outscored AD anyway.
Now is just AD’s fault that the Lakers lost? Of course not, pretty much everybody except Rui showed up but to say Brooks kicked James butt is just bat **** crazy
Should James and Brooks be held to the same standard... Brooks was never going to outscore LeBron... He was never going to out assist LeBron...
But measuring them each against their own measuring sticks, and factoring in how much Brooks was able to disrupt LeBron, Brooks won the battle...
Bron went for 28 points. How on earth did he win the battle?
Because they won the game? That’s the only argument here for that. Because Bron went for 28 and 12 and turned the ball over once. Doesn’t sound like he was too disrupted to me.
Literally if AD and D’Lo play like competent NBA level players and not a couple clowns at the Y then we win. Literally all they had to do was go for 30… BETWEEN THEM!! How on earth is it Bron’s fault they couldn’t do that? They average 44 between and they end up going for 18.
Brooks bothering Bron had nothing to do with the loss. Literally all he needed was D’Lo to go for 10 and AD to go for 20 and we’d be sat here 2-0.
Because Brooks took him off his game, made him less aggressive and focus more on his own scoring rather than finding ways, not just to get AD the ball, but get him the ball in effective scoring situations...
AD is many things... Soft, fragile, prone to lack of intensity... And many of those were on display last game...
But he's also the main reason we're in the playoffs... LeBron without AD had us below 500... We need AD to be elite if we have any chance... And it's LeBron's job to find ways to do that, rather than drawing up plays for himself out of timeouts... Not that it wasn't a great play, it just wasn't a play that helped us win that particular game.
I agree AD has to be our best player and he wasn't last game, but it wasn't all his fault and given what he was given by the team, he played pretty well.. LeBron could have gone for 50 but if AD didn't have the defensive game he did, we'd have lost by 20, not 10...
And forget individual matchups, AD was a big reason Vandi for example, looked good last night... AD changes everything on D, even if his individual stats or particular matchups don't show it.