Atlanta's Chances at Unseating the CLE LeBron's

[afectar]

Agree, we can only hope that Teague scores enough to neutralize Kyrie. I think the cavs are at their best when LeBron get 8 to 10 ast. He wants to pass the ball and we must take that away.

[LeMasta]

I never understood why ATL plays Lebron the way they do.

Why not just allow him to go off? Work on stopping their shooters. If Lebron beats us with 3's just tip your hat.

Just play him straight up, no double teams. Like what we did to Dwight in his Prime.

This is actually a pretty solid strategy. It likely wouldn't work for an entire series as they'd make adjustments between games...but to perhaps steal a game on the road in the playoffs. I think this could be effective.

The wild-card in this scenario is Kyrie Irving. If he's guarded one-on-one by Teague and starts penetrating at will against him, KI could easily drop 30 against us.

We saw just last week how effective they are when only LeBron and Kyrie are scoring.

I completely I agree. It was frustrating how last years playoffs they collasped EVERY single time Lebron took a step towards the paint because you just know that Lebron wants that. You're basically letting him kick it out and give the Cavs a rhythm 3, and he's more than capable of finding players off the drive. If you let the other 4 players get in rhythm and in sync, suddenly, you have 4 more threats to worry about. Just let LeBron score 40,50.. whatever, as long as you can limit the rest of the team. Just don't make the defense so predictable.