NBA playoffs 2017

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Angelus said:

Nuvendil said:

Not backing him entirely, but everything I am reading backs it and it makes sense.  And it lines up with his...not sub par but sub LeBron play.  Doesn't seem like it was serious, just a hairline or deep bruise.  It's not like he played it up as a big factor or anything.  It probably just hurt like a son of a gun.  

He still averaged like 30 and almost a triple double....how is that sub Lebron? Idk man.

Watching those games, the only reason he didn't have beefier numbers, was because for some inexplicable reason he didn't pull up over Curry like every time he got him one on one (which was all the fucking time). I mean seriously, the amount of times he back down Curry, only to kick it out to someone as soon as another defender took like one step towards him.….I couldn't believe it, frankly. He could have feasted on that all day.

Steph is a better defender than he is given credit for and he's tougher than he looks. Plus, it certainly helps having a Defensive Player of the Year (Draymond Green), 2 lockdown on-ball defenders (Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala), and a 7 foot tall all-time great player with very long arms (Kevin Durant) backing you up. It was essentially 1 on 5, with someone always ready to rotate and help Steph by either contesting the shot and making it very difficult for LeBron to score in the paint or force him to kick it back out to a shooter and close out just in time.