He had a great Finals last year.
He had a GREAT postseason, not just Finals.
That doesn't mean that you "know" he raises his play for the postseason.
I've been following Kyrie's career since HS, I think it's safe to say I can identify when he raises his game. He was averaging under 20 ppg in the regular season last year and increased his scoring by SIX points on greater efficency in the playoffs, with more playmaking duties in a higher pressurized environment.
You're basing that claim on literally ONE postseason (mostly around what he did against an opposing point guard who wasn't 100% in the Finals) and using it to disregard what he's shown in every regular season of his career.
What exactly are you saying in this statement? That his regular season performances aren't any different than what he's produced on a postseason stage? And please, like I said above, he played great basketball all throughout the first, second, and third rounds - not just the Finals. I fear the LeBron stan in you is rearing its ugly head again.
Hmmm....sometimes you just struck a little bit of a different tone.
First of all, did you see where I posted - "
You should be eternally grateful to Kyrie, because without him you'd probably have to drop a lot of the material you use to defend Bron."
Clearly those posts you quoted (without the proper context) aren't really different in tone to that statement.
I) Those posts you quoted about me referring to him as the "GOAT", are in the moment and I've been saying them since 2012/2013. I can guarantee you, if you search my name with the keywords GOAT and just about any NBA player's name you'll come up with results.
This form of Bron could be GOAT.
leGOAT
II. That "KYRIE DA GAWD MVP WORLD CHAMPION... WHILE WALL WAS SITTING HIS ASS AT HOME." was about Kyrie winning the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup MVP.
III. That "'I've never seen any team mate of Bron's, treat him like Kyrie does. bron getting that lil nikka treatment." was when LeBron was barking at Kyrie and Kyrie barked back even louder at him.
IV. The "Kyrie out there saving Brons from embarrassing himself. Brons jumpers -" was when Bron's jumper was trash and Kyrie came to the rescue against the Pacers
V. The rest of those posts regarding Kyrie's performance in the Finals remain true. He was the one who started attacking early in the shoclock (that exact thing Lue wanted) in G5/G6, not LeBron. A lot of their offensive runs came from when Kyrie was the aggressor. LeBron rightfully deserved to win FMVP for his overall impact throughout the series, but Kyrie was still the main initator in a lot of their runs in the back half of that series. LeBron was definitely killing their offense with his Barkley-backdowns and passiveness in parts of those games, and a lot of folk were commenting on it too.
Look at the comments before/after mine from other posters:
"LeBron destroyed Cleveland's offense the last three minutes of the quarter."
"Between Kevin Love shyt defense and Bron jacking up dumb ass 3 these nikkas don't wanna win. "
"and bad offense by bron 3 possesions in a row"
"Lebron tripping wtf"
"Bron looking shook"
"Let LeBron play hero ball, brehs "
"Way too much standing around by LeBron, the fukk is he doing?"
With all that said, I was never under the illusion that Kyrie was EVER the better player at any point, nor was I EVER dismissive of the fact that they wouldn't have been in the Finals if it weren't for LeBron in the first place. Simply the team wouldn't be shyt without him - the obvious doesn't even need to be stated. Which again, most of those comments (not the ones in the Finals) were in the moment, just geeked off Kyrie's play.
Hell, I was calling Manu the GOAT just the other day when he blocked Harden.
