2015 NBA Finals Thread

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I understand blaming the supporting cast since Lebron had a crazy series, but he knew when he signed and wanted Kevin Love that when you, and 2 other guys take up all the cap space you'll be stuck terrible players to step in.
 
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865dude said:
I understand blaming the supporting cast since Lebron had a crazy series, but he knew when he signed and wanted Kevin Love that when you, and 2 other guys take up all the cap space you'll be stuck terrible players to step in.
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The Cavs say they want him to take a more active role in roster decisions. He already got em to sell their future for the chance of titles now. Way too much say as it is.
 
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They gave up two late late firsts and Dion Waiters for two years of Mosgov, two years of Smith, and a year for Shumpert. That turned out pretty decent.
 
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865dude said:
I understand blaming the supporting cast since Lebron had a crazy series, but he knew when he signed and wanted Kevin Love that when you, and 2 other guys take up all the cap space you'll be stuck terrible players to step in.
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Just about any team missing 2 all stars and their starting center is going to be outclassed in the finals.
 
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Either I missed this on ESPN's page when it was being pushed or they tried to bury it from the start. It took reading a USA Today article to let me know this article was ever written by Marc Stein on ESPN in the first place. I check ESPN multiple times a day, so was this just never put up on the front page of ESPN? Every other Lebron comment requires a front page article, why not this one?

Report: LeBron James ’emasculated’ David Blatt during the NBA Finals | For The Win

LeBron's handling of Blatt unbecoming - Marc Stein - ESPN

Yeeesh...

I'm gonna assume it's true. I doubt Marc Stein would make stuff up given the damage it would do to his career. Especially if it's about Lebron, given how many people would dislike him over anything negative said on Lebron no matter how true. Sounds like Lebron acted horribly towards Blatt throughout the finals. He made comments about his teammates sucking during the finals as well, I recall.

So, if he's going after his coach on the sidelines and after his teammates in the media... maybe he should be the Cavs coach? Sounds like he says and does whatever he wants anyways. While Blatt can get everyone in line on defense, wonder if Lebron just doing whatever he wanted on offense is partially what made the offense so bad. Warriors have a great defense and Lebron's teammates do suck ass but that doesn't mean his way of running the offense was the best way to run the offense. Sure, he was all of their points and attached to all of the other points on assists but that doesn't mean what he was doing was good or working as well as Blatt's(the coach) offense. I say that because the offense wasn't working... for anyone.

Lebron himself was shooting 12 of 35 in the finals like it's what he was born to do. If he's picking so many bad shots for himself, whose to say the offense he was trying to run(acting on his own while ignoring the coach) was worth a damn and that he was actually dishing out good passes to begin with?

Lebron scored so much because he took so many shots while missing tons. He was going to score a lot of points regardless of how many he missed because he shot every other possession. Same thing with assists, of course he's going to get them all if he's the only one distributing the ball. Like Lebron, his teammates were also missing tons of shots but were bound to connect on some and if Lebron always has the ball until they shoot, he'll get the assist regardless if he's done nothing the next 5 possessions or even ran a good play in the first place to deserve the assist he just got.

Maybe Lebron should just be the first player/coach simultaneously if he's gonna act as the leader over Blatt through his choosing. Pretty sure Spoelstra as well was just a puppet to stand there as if he had any real job. Kind of like the president, just a face to make you think someone is in control. Nah, not really.
 
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TOP said:
Either I missed this on ESPN's page when it was being pushed or they tried to bury it from the start. It took reading a USA Today article to let me know this article was ever written by Marc Stein on ESPN in the first place. I check ESPN multiple times a day, so was this just never put up on the front page of ESPN? Every other Lebron comment requires a front page article, why not this one?

Report: LeBron James ’emasculated’ David Blatt during the NBA Finals | For The Win

LeBron's handling of Blatt unbecoming - Marc Stein - ESPN

Yeeesh...

I'm gonna assume it's true. I doubt Marc Stein would make stuff up given the damage it would do to his career. Especially if it's about Lebron, given how many people would dislike him over anything negative said on Lebron no matter how true. Sounds like Lebron acted horribly towards Blatt throughout the finals. He made comments about his teammates sucking during the finals as well, I recall.

So, if he's going after his coach on the sidelines and after his teammates in the media... maybe he should be the Cavs coach? Sounds like he says and does whatever he wants anyways. While Blatt can get everyone in line on defense, wonder if Lebron just doing whatever he wanted on offense is partially what made the offense so bad. Warriors have a great defense and Lebron's teammates do suck ass but that doesn't mean his way of running the offense was the best way to run the offense. Sure, he was all of their points and attached to all of the other points on assists but that doesn't mean what he was doing was good or working as well as Blatt's(the coach) offense. I say that because the offense wasn't working... for anyone.

Lebron himself was shooting 12 of 35 in the finals like it's what he was born to do. If he's picking so many bad shots for himself, whose to say the offense he was trying to run(acting on his own while ignoring the coach) was worth a damn and that he was actually dishing out good passes to begin with?

Lebron scored so much because he took so many shots while missing tons. He was going to score a lot of points regardless of how many he missed because he shot every other possession. Same thing with assists, of course he's going to get them all if he's the only one distributing the ball. Like Lebron, his teammates were also missing tons of shots but were bound to connect on some and if Lebron always has the ball until they shoot, he'll get the assist regardless if he's done nothing the next 5 possessions or even ran a good play in the first place to deserve the assist he just got.

Maybe Lebron should just be the first player/coach simultaneously if he's gonna act as the leader over Blatt through his choosing. Pretty sure Spoelstra as well was just a puppet to stand there as if he had any real job. Kind of like the president, just a face to make you think someone is in control. Nah, not really.
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Wasn't Bill Russell the first player/coach? I think he won a title as such too..
 
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