To keep it a buck - both of y'all arguments ain't shyt. It's really just one disingenuous take followed by another one (as are most of the posts in here).
You don't need to write out a lengthy response to put forth an "actual meaningful look at the matchup". It was dishonest that you framed your post in that manner by reducing it to some ABC, 123 matchup advantage nonsense.
Wade was a definitive top-3 player heading into that season, and arguably the best player in the game - Terry was lucky to be top-50. Whereas there was a minute margin between Dirk and Bosh. Bosh had just come off a high percentage/high volume scoring season as the #1 option, and was amongst the clump of the best PFs in the game (Dirk, Stoudemire and Pau). The only thing that changed from that point until the '11 Finals was working their games in to fit in a new system (with LeBron), as their skillsets and impact were still intact.
Saying any different is just revisionism.
You can't marginalize the game down to matchups, especially when there's a chasm in talent/ability (at the top) and style between the two teams. I don't know what you're getting at here, but I hope to God you aren't trying to give LeBron a pass for his performance and change the covers after shytting the bed.
You are NOT going to come in here and try to convince people that "there was a minute margin between Dirk and Bosh".
The whole idea of the thread is that Dirk won a ring by himself. I'm disputing that, but I ain't denying Dirk's greatness.
Can you imagine someone thinking of the thread, "If only Bosh had the right role players, he could have won a ring by himself too!"
Bosh was an effective scorer, you could get 20-21ppg featuring him, but Dirk was the best-shooting big man in history, a perennial top-10 scorer pulling 24-25ppg every year on much better efficiency.
Dirk was a former MVP still playing at an MVP level, in the middle of a 10-year streak of finishing top-10 in MVP voting. Bosh had never been an MVP contender, only barely slipping into the top-10 of voting ONCE a good four years earlier.
Just take the previous three years:
2008: Dirk 2nd-team All-NBA, Bosh does not make All-NBA team
2009: Dirk 1st-team All-NBA, Bosh does not make All-NBA team
2010: Dirk 2nd-team All-NBA, Bosh does not make All-NBA team
No one would ever say that 2010 Pau was on the same level as Dirk, and I'd argue that Pau was a better all-around baller than Bosh at that stage. Bosh was a strong, probably top-5 power forward, but he wasn't on Dirk's tier.
Look at the playoffs it's even worse.
By 2011 Dirk had eight postseasons where he had averaged 25+ppg and eight postseasons where he had averaged 10+ rpg. From 2008-2012 Dirk put up 27-28ppg in the playoffs in FIVE STRAIGHT postseasons.
By 2011 Bosh had only made the playoffs twice, averaging 20ppg in two first-round losses matched up against Mikki Moore and Rashard Lewis.
Bosh hadn't done shyt in the playoffs, while Dirk always was a monster in the postseason even when he lost. No one came into 2011 thinking, "Chris Bosh is going to hold his own against Dirk". He wasn't on the same level.
As far as Wade and Terry goes, Wade was a couple extra levels above Terry when 2010 started. But Terry jumped to a new place in those 2011 playoffs. He outplayed Brandon Roy, Kobe Bryant, and James Harden in the three series before the Finals. Against the Lakers in the deciding game of the WCSF, Terry punked Kobe straight up, putting up 32 points and 4 assists on 11-14 shooting to Kobe's 17 and 1 on 7-18 shooting (and for the series, Terry had 20-2-4 on ridiculous 59/68/86 splits to Kobe's 23-3-3 on 46/23/80).
And why was it that Spolstra was switching Bron onto Terry in the 4th quarters, if he wasn't giving Wade real problems? Terry still wasn't on Wade's level, but the gap wasn't as big as it had been beforehand.