In the last 6 years he's only made two deep postseason runs. Two Rd1 outs vs the juggernaut '17 Raptors and '18 Celtics...
'19 ECF run where he was MVP of a 60-win team, ran up a 2-0 lead on Toronto before getting backdoored--->went from a 27/15.5/5.5 line on 472/286/750 shooting during the 2-0 run, to 20.5/12.5/5.5 line on 435/357/472 during the 4-game sweep...
'20 Semis went 21.8/11/5.3 on 508/214/537 while losing the first three games en route to a gentleman's sweep. Oh yeah. He was the MVP on a ~63-win team this season too...
'21 won it all, closed The Finals in historic fashion, can't take it away. I know what the two previous years showed so one year of a title run, in a Covid-shortened season, where his team benefitted from weak opponents and injury luck. Just needed to see it again...
'22 is why you needed to watch the games rather than counting stats. Absolutely dominant the first 5 games in terms of volume production, hit a few clutch baskets. But was also down in efficiency, up in turnovers, and by the second half of G6 was struggling to finish at the rim which us his bread and butter...
In a series that he only shot 457/250/676 anyway, the stunning part was watching the aforementioned struggles to finish, and seemingly running out of steam in a Semifinals series. Not a Finals. Not a conference finals. A Semis. The last 6 quarters were not great basketball by him if you watched the series play out...
So to your question of confusion, I'm saying here we go again, late in a series his play starts dipping and I'm saying I've seen it before. As it stands now I don't know how anyone could have the conclusion that '21 wasn't the unique playoff run from him, because '22 fits more in line with what we saw from Giannis in '20 on back...
nikka said jrue and Middleton are better than Bosh
So Harden and AI > Wade and jrue/Middleton > Bosh
I didn't say at any point I thought AI was greater than Wade, and I also said while I thought Harden was a better basketball player than Wade, his career has been inferior so I have him lower than Wade historically...
You guys really overrate Bosh but that ain't nothing new around here. Bosh was the third wheel on championship teams who a)struggled to make the playoffs as a #1 in the "weak East", b)had several availability issues during those 4 Heatles years, and c)was known for putting up 0 points in a Finals and several other weak ass performances in those playoff runs...
But sure. He better than Jrue and Middleton...