How can you not respect Lebron after this?

[Professor Emeritus]

Wade only had durability problems the last season they were together.

Okay, you're just a troll. Now Wade's knee problems are Lebron's fault too. I'm bookmarking this one for a neg later.

Wade first got injured in college and had surgery on his knee in 2002, missed 21 games his rookie year in 2004, missed 31 games in 2007, missed 31 games in 2008, and only played more than 77 games once in his entire career. But right, his knee problems are Lebron's fault.

And I still don't think Bron choked in 2011. I think he stopped playing because he knew Wade would win the FMVP and validate all the "he went to Wade's team" talk he let get to him the whole season. I respect how Steph played hard to get this ring even knowing KD was going to get the FMVP and it'd be his 3rd finals and 2nd ring without getting one. So what LeBron did was some hoe shyt I'll never forget, but that's just me

Ya'all with your conspiracy shyt claiming that Lebron PURPOSELY lost a Finals, like he doesn't get FAR more hate from losing to Dallas than he ever would have from having Wade, his legit best friend, get Finals MVP.

Lebron makes ya'all just stupid.

I give Bron that he competed, just like I give his teammates that yall never want to credit for anything. I also stand by saying this was the first year it was evenly matched. Last year it was 3 stars vs. 2, favoring Cavs. Previous it was 2 stars vs. 1, favoring GSW. This year it was 3 vs. 3 and the better team won.

Still forgetting that Draymond was All-NBA this year AND last year and will probably win DPOY???

 

[Jerz-2]

Let me explain it really slowly for you.

Golden State has four guys who were All-NBA last year, plus the 6th Man of the Year.
Cleveland has one guy who was All-NBA last year and their best player off the bench is 36-year-old Richard Jefferson.

Cleveland, with Kyrie and Love, has two very good shooters to complement Lebron.
Golden State has arguably the best three shooters in NBA history, all on the same team.

Kevin Durant has become a great defender, but when he needs help, he has Draymond, Iggy, and Klay to back him up.
Lebron James is a great defender when rested, but when he needs help, he's relying on TT, JR, and Shump.

I guess you forgot that LeBron put this team together. Pretty much the entire roster was chosen by him. So cats wanna laud him as the best, but criticize his teammates and say "he needs more help!" even though he hand-picked these nikkas....gotcha.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

They need to dump Tristan Thompson that's money that could've been spent else where

Problem with TT is that you weren't going to get equal value in a trade.

And if you let him walk, you can't "spend that money elsewhere" because they were already over the cap anyway.

TT is a necessary evil on this team. It's a drain, but there just isn't a comparable player the Cavs can get who does what he does.

Were you saying this on Christmas, when the Cavs beat them?

Were ANY of you nikkas screaming this "talent disparity" shyt back on Christmas?

No....no you were NOT.

I've been saying this shyt since before the season started.

Golden State player rankings in annual GM survey


On Christmas, the Cavs won on a buzzer beater at home against a team that had formed 2 months earlier. Color me impressed.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Can you or somebody else explain the Coli definition of stat padding?

Going extremely hard for points rebounds or assists when the game has been decided

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I guess you forgot that LeBron put this team together. Pretty much the entire roster was chosen by him. So cats wanna laud him as the best, but criticize his teammates and say "he needs more help!" even though he hand-picked these nikkas....gotcha.

So because he's a great basketball player, he's also supposed to have some sort of superpowers that make him the best GM in the NBA too?


Cavs front office was making shyt moves every year from 2004 to 2014. They were just fukking horrific. If Lebron has really been in control since the '14-'15 season, he sure as hell righted that ship.

But being a decent GM doesn't mean you can magically match Golden State's roster. They got lucky as hell with Curry's early injuries meaning he signed a super-cheap long-term contract, and Klay and Draymond turning out better than anyone expected.

Even if Lebron was the GOAT GM in history, exactly how was he going to build a roster to match 4 All-NBA players on the same team?


Ya'all don't even think through the stupid shyt you say, you just throw it out there and think it makes sense because Lebron turns ya brains into mush.

 

[Formerly known as...]

He gets respect from me

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Going extremely hard for points rebounds or assists when the game has been decided

So at what point of the game do you think Lebron should have given up and stopped trying?


And we're in agreement that if Lebron had given up before the whistle blew, that everyone here would have respected him more, right?

 

[Jerz-2]

This dude The Dankster is furious, typing soliloquies like

 

[Kaypain]

I guess you forgot that LeBron put this team together. Pretty much the entire roster was chosen by him. So cats wanna laud him as the best, but criticize his teammates and say "he needs more help!" even though he hand-picked these nikkas....gotcha.

Y'all still on this Lebron is the GM of Cavs bullshyt huh. If Lebron wanted to chose the players he wanted we will be heading to a Game 6 right now

 

[Kaypain]

So because he's a great basketball player, he's also supposed to have some sort of superpowers that make him the best GM in the NBA too?


Cavs front office was making shyt moves every year from 2004 to 2014. They were just fukking horrific. If Lebron has really been in control since the '14-'15 season, he sure as hell righted that ship.

But being a decent GM doesn't mean you can magically match Golden State's roster. They got lucky as hell with Curry's early injuries meaning he signed a super-cheap long-term contract, and Klay and Draymond turning out better than anyone expected.

Even if Lebron was the GOAT GM in history, exactly how was he going to build a roster to match 4 All-NBA players on the same team?


Ya'all don't even think through the stupid shyt you say, you just throw it out there and think it makes sense because Lebron turns ya brains into mush.

Lebron is not the fukking GM

 

[MalikX]

LeBron lost. That's all that matters. Start the summer off right

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

All these double posts

 

[No1]

I'd love the guy trashing Lebron's defense to explain what player in NBA history could have done more.

Lebron didn't have Durant's advantage of having guys like Iggy and Draymond to take the defensive load off of him.

If you switch Lebron and Durant, and put Durant out there on an island without meaningful defensive help while also forcing him to carry a massive offensive burden, then he's going to give up 35ppg to Lebron on efficient shooting just like Lebron did.



Oh, wait, Durant DID give up 35ppg on efficient shooting to Lebron even though he younger, has less offensive burden to carry, and has THREE ballers on his team giving better defensive help than anyone Lebron got.

LeBron scored the vast majority of that on drives in transition and when KD was not on him.

 

[MalikX]

Bron won't be appreciated by his haters until he's gone

Yea, no. Bye Bron.

 

[V-2]

So at what point of the game do you think Lebron should have given up and stopped trying?


And we're in agreement that if Lebron had given up before the whistle blew, that everyone here would have respected him more, right?

It's absolutely idiotic.

He'd already dropped 35 by the five minute mark of the fourth quarter, was that the appropriate time to pack it up in an elimination game? How much shyt did dude catch in the first two games for not taking enough shots in the fourth quarter when they were down by 20+ with the contest decided and he'd already threw up lines of 28/15/8 and 29/11/14? He could've padded excessively in 1, 2 and 4.

The 34/12/10 on 56% is as legit as it gets, and easily one of the greatest Finals performances of all-time, win or lose. The Cavs would've taken this one to the wire again had Kyrie not gotten injured in the first half and gone 0-6 in the fourth quarter, missing layups and shooting air balls. JR was Cleveland's second best player last night.