Yet in the 2016 playoffs when Curry was out for 7 games, Klay and Draymond were both even better on offense than they were when they played with Curry. Which destroys your point.
Dray: 19-11-7 shooting 51% fg / 43% 3pt
Klay: 29-4-3 shooting 47% fg / 46% 3pt
Yeah man, those guys are ass without Steph there.
This is a total lie. Going by average defender distance Klay is consistently one of the top-2 most closely guarded players in the entire NBA.
For two of their titles he CLEARLY did not carry them on offense. With KD and Klay both there it was a very balanced offense. I'd argue Curry was the most important part of the offense, but you can't claim he "carried" a team that had another all-time GOAT scorer in his prime AND one of the greatest shooters ever as the 3rd option. Both postseasons he scored just 23% of his team's points, both years not even being the #1 scorer on his own team, compared to Bron who scored 28% and 33% of his team's points those same two years.
So the only title he could even be considered to "carry" them offensively was 2015, and during the regular season he only scored 21.8% of Golden State's points and was barely even the leading scorer (24ppg for Curry to 22ppg for Klay). Of course he was still far and away the #1 most important offensive player, but being the clear #1 is not enough to claim you "carried" a team. In the 2015 postseason he was a more meaningful 26.9% of the team's scoring, but that's still just matching Duncan's '99 and '03 percentages while Duncan was FAR more important to his team's defense.
Why are you lying? I didn't "hype up Barnes" anywhere.
No evidence whatsoever, just the "Hey, some haters say so it must be true!" argument.
Bron has succeeded with ball-dominant players like Wade and Kyrie, and with zero playmakers in the starting lineup like 2020. Bron has succeeded with a prime big like AD, and with a completely weak frontcourt like 2016. Bron has made the Finals with 3pt shooters all over the place like 2017, and with no 3pt shooters in the starting lineup at all like 2011. He's dominated the offense like in 2007 and 2018, or been part of a loose motion offense playing off-ball all the time like in 2013.
I have exact receipts for LeBron finding success in many different lineups and schemes. You have...."some people say".
Love isn't any good on the pick-and-roll when teams are actually playing defense because he can't elevate for shyt and is a poor finisher, while Curry is a mediocre passer on the pick-and-roll because he's not a natural PG and commits a ton of turnovers when passing into tight spaces. They'd be running the pick-and-pop more often than the pick-and-roll, only they'd have to deal with defenders just trapping Curry more often than not because they ain't gonna respect Love like that unless he's behind the 3pt line and even then they'll have time to recover.
Meanwhile that team would be ASS on defense. Not just the horrific guard defense and Love being a huge liability, but their rim protection would be mediocre at best considering all the guys who would be blitzing past Kyrie/Curry/Love defense all game. You really think you can trust TT to clean all that up without Bron lurking like he did in the '16 Finals?
The Bron-Klay-Iggy-Draymond-Livingston-Barnes-Bogut squad would be elite offensively AND defensively. There's no comparison.
mofo has done nothing in his career since leaving Golden State
