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B-b-but I thought the Cavs dominating the East didn't matter because the conference is:trash:

Y'all can say what you want and have the right to your opinions, but Jesus Christ, at least actually attempt to have some sort of consistency or intellectual honesty.

It is trash. That doesn't change the fact that they're a super team. What other team in the NBA has 3 all stars?
 

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:what:The fukk is this revisionist history, especially the bolded. The Heat CONSTANTLY struggled against teams with solid big men. The Magic would routinely run them off the floor when they had Dwight, they always dropped regular season games to squads that had bigs and three-point shooting, even the scrub teams, and do I even have to bring up all of their struggles against Indiana?

Getting pushed to 7 three times is hardly dominating. Only getting the #1 seed in the weak Eastern Conference in one out of 4 years because the team's flaws didn't make them an optimal regular season team isn't "dominant." LeBron had to drag the team in 2012 while averaging 30/10/6, and it wasn't until the Finals that they actually reached their full potential.
Indiana in '13 had everything they needed. Came up short.

Spurs with their Parker/Duncan PnR. Came up short. (at first anyway)

Thunder should've wrecked them slashing to the basket...nope.

Every team was on the lookout for a "LeBron stopper" and a post up big.

To the point where you had Indiana (who already had 7'2" Hibbert) signing the remains of Andrew Bynum in hopes they could exploit the Heat.

Also :mjlol::mjlol:at Dwight's Magic vs the Heat. He went off to form a counter-superteam becuase he knew he couldn't get past Miami.
 

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Like my favorite one: The 08 Boston Celtics weren't a super team because of Ray, Pierce's and KG's age....Well, how old has Bron been for the past two years? over 30 years of age...a.k.a the same age range as the Boston Big 3. So by ya'lls flimsy logic...The Cavs team only has two prime stars in Kyrie and Love so, what's this noise about a Superteam? :mjlol:

It's about caliber
Lebron, Wade and Bosh are better than Pierce, Ray and KG

who cares about a team with Kemba, Hayward and Deandre Jordan, nobody. But a lot will care about a team like Kobe, AI and Shaq
 

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Can't even believe this new narrative:snoop:. Miami wasnt a superteam:why:? Bron fans bout to run me out of talking basketball.
I got dudes calling me a straight up hater for saying the big 3 Miami team was a super team. If the Ls keeps on racking up for Bron..Talking basketball almost anywhere will be in a bad place. :francis:
 

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It is trash. That doesn't change the fact that they're a super team. What other team in the NBA has 3 all stars?
Their top 3 isn't the sole defining factor of a Super Team. LeBron, Love and Kyrie are hardly even a cohesive fit, their roster beyond them is shaky, and they're a mediocre defense at best. They have three all-stars but everything else that constitutes a great team is lacking. They can get by solely on three All-stars in the East because the GMs in that conference are ass, but if they played in the West with that exact same squad, they won't be doing too well (although if they actually were on a Western Conference team, they'd probably have way more to work with)
 

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When you compare Kevin Love and Chris Bosh's output to what Klay and Draymond have done this year, it's not fair to compare the Heat or the Cavs to this Warriors team.
 

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Their top 3 isn't the sole defining factor of a Super Team. LeBron, Love and Kyrie are hardly even a cohesive fit, their roster beyond them is shaky, and they're a mediocre defense at best. They have three all-stars but everything else that constitutes a great team is lacking. They can get by solely on three All-stars in the East because the GMs in that conference are ass, but if they played in the West with that exact same squad, they won't be doing too well (although if they actually were on a Western Conference team, they'd probably have way more to work with)

The Cavs as currently constructed win a playoff series against 27 of the 29 other teams in the NBA (they can't fukk with the Warriors or Spurs imo). That alone says they have enough firepower to be considered a super team.
 

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When you compare Kevin Love and Chris Bosh's output to what Klay and Draymond have done this year, it's not fair to compare the Heat or the Cavs to this Warriors team.

Tjey just weren't as good as this Warriors team. They were still a super team for their era bruh. There's no debating this.
 
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Indiana in '13 had everything they needed. Came up short.

Spurs with their Parker/Duncan PnR. Came up short. (at first anyway)

Thunder should've wrecked them slashing to the basket...nope.

Every team was on the lookout for a "LeBron stopper" and a post up big.

To the point where you had Indiana (who already had 7'2" Hibbert) signing the remains of Andrew Bynum in hopes they could exploit the Heat.

Also :mjlol::mjlol:at Dwight's Magic vs the Heat. He went off to form a counter-superteam becuase he knew he couldn't get past Miami.
Dwight's Magic were 5-3 against Miami and had a couple of games where they blew them the fukk out. That team not even being able to beat Atlanta was why he left. But you're missing my point. Even teams that otherwise weren't very good gave Miami fits because they cold exploit the huge holes in their game. The Magic were so-so but could run up on Miami because they had a big and 3-point shooting.

A completely desolate Bulls team was able to be competitive with Miami in 3 out of 5 games in the '13 playoffs because of size and ball movement.

The Pacers were a sub-50 win team that took them to 7 because of their bigs

San Antonio had the Heat on the ropes until the most extraordinary circumstances possible, and then annihilated them once the Heat were:flabbynsick: and couldn't out-talent teams anymore
 
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A SUPERTEAM IS 3 OR MORE FRANCHISE PLAYERS PLAYIN TOGETHER WHILE THEY STILL ALL-STAR CALIBER

MIAMI HEAT 2010-2014 WAS A SUPERTEAM

CLEVELAND CAVS 2015-PRESENT IS A SUPERTEAM

LOS ANGELES LAKERS 2004 WAS NOT



BRONZE HELLA DESPERATE FOLKS
 
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