The Lebron Thread (2015-16 Pt. 3)

datstockton · Post #301 » by **datstockton** » Sun May 22, 2016 3:23 am

Kyrie was atrocious. It's one thing when you're getting to your spot and missing good shots, but man, he was really forcing the issue and bailing out the Raps with some of his decisions.

Also, Love played 29 minutes and grabbed 4 rebounds...How is that even possible? Forget the 3 points on 1-9 shooting, the 4 rebounds is far more embarrassing to me.

IG2 · Post #302 » by **IG2** » Sun May 22, 2016 4:31 am

Kevin Love has been dreadful for most of this postseason. This loss will finally shed light on it, but really, it should've started a while ago.

Kyrie's decision making is Chalmers-level. And that's the biggest insult I can ever throw at anyone.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry when LeBron shoots a 3. Just don't know how this happened.

Oh well, picked Cavs in 5 prior to the series. But wouldn't be surprised to see them return 2-2.

Either way, GS will humiliate them.

BasketballFan7 · Post #303 » by **BasketballFan7** » Sun May 22, 2016 4:48 am

LeBron played fined, Kylie and Love played lackluster, and the Raptors played well and with energy at home. People will be quick to overreact because it is more fun to do so, but this is the NBA. It's not shocking and it doesn't mean much unless it happens again.

kayess · Post #304 » by **kayess** » Sun May 22, 2016 6:19 am

IG2 wrote:Kyrie's decision making is Chalmers-level. And that's the biggest insult I can ever throw at anyone.

Come on man. There's no way Chalmers would chuck like that; at least half of those possessions he would've given it to LeBron and stood back.

The High Cyde · Post #305 » by **The High Cyde** » Sun May 22, 2016 12:26 pm

I'll cut them some slack on virtue of them being 10-1in the playoffs thus far.

Kyrie just felt confident he could put the dagger in the Raptors by going up 3-0, the problem was he felt that all game long without adjusting appropriately to give the team a better chance to win. I'm sure LeBron talked to him about it after the game.

GSP · Post #306 » by **GSP** » Sun May 22, 2016 1:12 pm

Biyombo played like 35-36yo Wilt Chamberlain for 39 minutes and somehow got 26 boards on Love and Tristan.

Cory Joseph made a mockery of Kyrie on both ends and outplayed him severely.

Kyrie and Love combined for 4/28 from the field and 2/11 from 3, had 3 assists and 3 turnovers.

Every Cav besides Lebron and Channing severely underperformed (Jefferson was alright tho). Jr was terrible defensively even tho he got hot shooting.

Derozan managed to have a great game.

Cavs played terrible defensively in the 1st half and Toronto still only scored 99. When Lue finally took Jr off Derozan who should only be guarded by Shump or Lebron, that 2nd half they did well on defense for the most part. They guarded the pickandroll much better especially and werent getting screened as badly as the 1st half.

Some of these overreactions are crazy. This team will still go down as one of the greatest offenses ever. This game had so many anomalies and its on the road. Not surprising. Sweeping ur conference is a ridiculously difficult task. Even for Goat level teams competing in terrible conferences (87 Lakers dropped a game to the -2.54 Srs Warriors).

The Cavs will be fine but i expect to see Biyombo on Lebron alot more. Hes one of the few players in the league who have the strength to not get bulldozed by Lebron and also has the footspeed to not get beat off the dribble, not to mention the length for contests and take away some passing angles especially to cutters. That could be a problem for the Cavs in the paint but the closeouts will be there to be attacked, they just need to do a MUCH better job on the glass. You just cant have one guy dominate u like that.

RSCD3_ · Post #307 » by **RSCD3_** » Sun May 22, 2016 1:40 pm

GSP wrote:Biyombo played like 35-36yo Wilt Chamberlain for 39 minutes and somehow got 26 boards on Love and Tristan.

Cory Joseph made a mockery of Kyrie on both ends and outplayed him severely.

Kyrie and Love combined for 4/28 from the field and 2/11 from 3, had 3 assists and 3 turnovers.

Every Cav besides Lebron and Channing severely underperformed (Jefferson was alright tho). Jr was terrible defensively even tho he got hot shooting.

Derozan managed to have a great game.

Cavs played terrible defensively in the 1st half and Toronto still only scored 99. When Lue finally took Jr off Derozan who should only be guarded by Shump or Lebron, that 2nd half they did well on defense for the most part. They guarded the pickandroll much better especially and werent getting screened as badly as the 1st half.

Some of these overreactions are crazy. This team will still go down as one of the greatest offenses ever. This game had so many anomalies and its on the road. Not surprising. Sweeping ur conference is a ridiculously difficult task. Even for Goat level teams competing in terrible conferences (87 Lakers dropped a game to the -2.54 Srs Warriors).

The Cavs will be fine but i expect to see Biyombo on Lebron alot more. Hes one of the few players in the league who have the strength to not get bulldozed by Lebron and also has the footspeed to not get beat off the dribble, not to mention the length for contests and take away some passing angles especially to cutters. That could be a problem for the Cavs in the paint but the closeouts will be there to be attacked, they just need to do a MUCH better job on the glass. You just cant have one guy dominate u like that.

JR wast terrible cause Derozan was scoring on him q lot, in fact 22 of DeRozan's 24 shots were contested, and he happened to knock down a lot of midrange jumpers with a hand in his face. That's an area where he struggled a hell of a lot prior to the series and jr while not being paul george physically was playing him pretty damn well, "a case of good offense beats good defense "

OnlyOneWay2Play · Post #308 » by **OnlyOneWay2Play** » Tue May 24, 2016 12:56 am

Get Kevin Love the f*ck out of the game / rotation. This guy is complete trash. Shooting 36% FG for the entire playoffs! No D, weak rebounding and can't hit a shot last 2 games when they desperately need it.

kayess · Post #309 » by **kayess** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:16 am

They're missing wide open 3s, you'd expect them to make 3-4 of those.

LeBron's broken jumper clearly holding this team back

SideshowBob · Post #310 » by **SideshowBob** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:18 am

Lebron: GOAT from 22 feet WOAT from 23 feet :dontknow:

WinisKing · Post #311 » by **WinisKing** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:19 am

Irving is the worst passing guard I've seen on a contending team. Where are the fundamentals? Why would he show the ball midair while passing?

SideshowBob · Post #312 » by **SideshowBob** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:20 am

From 16-23 feet: 10/17 (58.8%)
From FT line: 42/67 (62.6%)

What even is this

Greatness · Post #313 » by **Greatness** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:24 am

I know LeBron has won a road game in every series for a ridiculously long time, but I think that will end this round.

toodles23 · Post #314 » by **toodles23** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:30 am

Kyrie is such a **** bonehead. Just atrocious shot selection sometimes where you can't even imagine wtf was going through his head.

kayess · Post #315 » by **kayess** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:32 am

JUST SHOOT IT JESUS

NinjaSheppard · Post #316 » by **NinjaSheppard** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:32 am

Raptors are treating LeBron like he is a 6'8 Rondo and it is working

WinisKing · Post #317 » by **WinisKing** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:33 am

Love playing like he deserves 1/3 of the contract he have at this moment, maybe even less.

kayess · Post #318 » by **kayess** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:35 am

toodles23 wrote:Kyrie is such a **** bonehead. Just atrocious shot selection sometimes where you can't even imagine wtf was going through his head.

It's because LeBron's non-portability is holding him back!

JordansBulls · Post #319 » by **JordansBulls** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:37 am

Very surprised the Raptors are up by this much.

JulesWinnfield · Post #320 » by **JulesWinnfield** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:41 am

I didn't see this turnaround coming in this series... What a weird showing in these playoffs by the Raps. Just impossible to read from game to game. At the end of the day though they always had the ceiling to give the Cavs a series, you don't post a top 5 SRS by accident (edit: they were 6th in SRS). This shouldn't on paper be surprising but somehow oddly is. I'd still be stunned if the Cavs lost this series though