Hitachi77 wrote:Wingy wrote:Hitachi77 wrote:
Let’s go through the list:
2007: took an insane performance from LeBron to get to the finals, his team was overmatched in the finals
2011: I will give you this one of course, they lost to Dallas as a favorite.
2014: This one kind of a wash, they lost as a slight underdog.
2015: lost his 2nd and 3rd best players to injury, still took the Warriors to 6
2017-18: completely overmatched, KD Warriors
Jordan has won as a favorite every time, and lost as an underdog every time. LeBron has often won as an underdog, in many of those runs through the east, and a few times lost as a favorite.
That finals streak is an argument in Lebron’s favor, anyone saying anything otherwise is being silly or biased.
Overcame the Pistons that one series otherwise when were they an underdog and won? You used the word “often” during that weak LEastern Conference era? Warriors too, right? When Steph was dinged, Bogut was out as moron Draymond ’kicked’ the series to them? If you are going to call out the weakened state of the Cavs in 2015, then you must also recognize injury also helped deliver Lebron’s greatest achievement.
2006: had the 64 win Pistons on the ropes with a scrub Cavs team
2007: won vs the Pistons, like you mentioned
2008: had the Celtics on the ropes with that scrub of a Cavs team
2012: they were underdogs vs the Thunder
2016: I’ll admit, this win it very overrated and talked about way too much, and was aided by injuries and suspensions, like you mentioned, but still worth a note
2018: they were underdogs vs the Raptors, can’t remember if they were underdogs vs the Celtics in the series, but they were in game 7
The injury/suspension excuse for 2016 is bogus. Kevin Love got a concussion and was so horrible after that he was an overall negative. You might as well say he missed the series, or even worse, he hurt his team.
