Yeah, "stopping" Lebron is holding him to 28ppg on 58% shooting.
He was jealous that wade was gonna win fmvp and he railroaded the series.
You legit think Lebron would give up his first title and suffer the most humiliating defeat of his life so his best friend don't win MVP?
People who say stuff like this expose themselves as not having a clue what going on basketball wise, can't see what the Mavs were doing defensively or why Lebron couldn't get it going. They DID stop him that year, but he developed his game so it wouldn't happen again.
Durant shot 72% on Lebron in the finals. Lebron shot 54% against Durant. Yall so corny with these dumbass posts, cavs got washed including Lebron.
Warriors were switching Iggy/Draymond/Durant, three elite defenders going all-out. And when he got past Durant there was always Draymond there or vice-versa. Meanwhile, Lebron wasn't going 100% because he had to go all-out on offense every game AND there was no one else on the Cavs who could dream of stopping Durant, or protect the rim behind him.
You can't name one player who had ever been asked to do as much as Lebron in these Finals and yet who still had the energy to stop someone like Durant on the other end too. There a reason that MJ always had Scottie to take the tough defensive assignments, Kobe had Ariza and Artest.
Lebron shot 37% in 2015. Why? "Oh his teammates sucked"; exactly dumb shyt. Lebron isnt unstoppable, he's got a bunch of 3 pointers on the team that spread the floor.
Lebron shot 40% in 2015. He has NEVER shot anything like 37% in a series in his entire career, that's a Kobe-level number.
And he shot 40% in 2015 because he was facing three elite defenders (Iggy then Draymond with Bogut protecting the rim behind them) and they ONLY had to worry about him because everyone else on the Cavs was horrid. And on top of that he had to do ALL the scoring and ball handing while being the center of the defense and playing 45 minutes/game, so his legs were dead and he had no three all playoffs.
Lebron's strategy against the Warriors was to control the pace, shorten the game, and frustrate them with long possessions followed as often as possible by offensive boards (the only thing his teammates could do) followed by another long possession. A slow halfcourt game with 100% of the defensive attention on Lebron can't translate into high % numbers, but it was the only way to keep a far more talented GS team off-balance and give the Cavs a chance to take two, almost three games from a team that had five players better than Lebron's best sidekick.