Let's re-examine Artest's clutch three vs. Kyrie/Ray's three in the Finals

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Kobe passed it to Artest while up 3 to take a 3.

LeBron passed it to an "open Korver" up 2 to take a 3.
:patrice:SO pass it to a nikka who ended up shooting over "2DEFENDERS" instead of going up for the lay up and drawing a foul with one defender that you had beat already?
 

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:patrice:SO pass it to a nikka who ended up shooting over "2DEFENDERS" instead of going up for the lay up and drawing a foul with one defender that you had beat already?
2 defenders?
Love set a pick on Curry, Curry slipped it. Korver got up a good look from the corner.
Durant was in the paint focused on LeBron when he was driving.



Now if you want to find fault with LeBron. What he could have did was pass it immediately to Korver off the pick. He would have had an even better shot. But he was trying to kill clock as well.
 

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You make great points and I mostly just lurk the Kobe Lebron debate on here.
But I think when it comes to Lebron this is stuck in a lot of people's mind.

I been waiting on him to do this again (But in the Finals) and I know its in him to do it.
The reality is that you can't have perfomances like that all the time. With that particular Cavs team, Lebron was by far the best and only option on that team. If he'd had better players on that squad he would have passed the ball more in some of them moments. He scored 28 of the Cavs final 29 pts in that game. While that is great for him as a personal achievement, if your forced to do that the playoff often, you'll lose more often than win.
 
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