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Let's just give players their due by all accounts TT has been playing terrific basketball and the best basketball of his career. I think people expected him to be solid but he has been playing maybe championship level at what he does. That's pretty significant. Give him his due.

Dellavedova Let me have my one moment in the sun and say I thought he could be an NBANO player when I saw him in the tourney. The knock on him was defense and now I read from LST how he is better in that area than Kyrie. From what I have seen Yep. Rotates well does everything like you are supposed to do and like my brother said in a text last week about when he watched him in some games in college "tough kid". I never imagined he would be doing what he is doing now but it's a heck of a story. I remember people saying they Cavs needed a backup PG before the season. Some of us said they didn't. :)

LST is right Blatt is pushing the right buttons at this point. It seems clear that the team is playing well together and playing defense. Atlanta...I know they played well much of the season but especially with a beat up Carroll I don't know how tough they are right now. I don't want to diminish the Hawks or what success the Cavs are doing but I do think it's worth considering. Hopefully the Hawks can at least win one game.

This isn't the same Atlanta team that dominated the regular season. They haven't been that team for most of the playoffs. I don't see how Cleveland has a chance to beat GS in the finals either. Curry's dropping 30 a game so Lebron is matched from the get go while GS's secondary players are just better than Cleveland's. I'd say Warriors in 5.

LeBron's also playing great basketball. That has so much more to do with these wins than Tristan Thompson. They won't be able to win a title without the other big two of the big three, however.

How will Curry do if they put Lebron on him, should be an entertaining series

A Friendly Flatulence wrote:How will Curry do if they put Lebron on him, should be an entertaining series

Klay would become the series MVP

Curry -- Shumpert
Thompson -- James

You can put whoever you want on Curry. The guy is unguardable. That's why he can offset Lebron because Lebron is unguardable as well. If you put Shump on Curry that puts Kyrie on Klay or Barnes. That's just not going to work.

khans2k5 wrote:You can put whoever you want on Curry. The guy is unguardable. That's why he can offset Lebron because Lebron is unguardable as well. If you put Shump on Curry that puts Kyrie on Klay or Barnes. That's just not going to work.

I like the Warriors options to guard LeBron much more than I like the Cavs ability to guard Curry. Barnes or Green would probably match up with James.

TRKO wrote:

khans2k5 wrote:You can put whoever you want on Curry. The guy is unguardable. That's why he can offset Lebron because Lebron is unguardable as well. If you put Shump on Curry that puts Kyrie on Klay or Barnes. That's just not going to work.

I like the Warriors options to guard LeBron much more than I like the Cavs ability to guard Curry. Barnes or Green would probably match up with James.

Barnes, Green, Iggy, Klay. They have 4 legitimate options to guard Lebron. I don't think you can stop him, but they could certainly match Chicago in frustrating him and there's no way the Cavs role players win that battle over the Warriors like they did against Chicago. I think the Warriors just have too much firepower, they play great defense and they can match Cleveland's star power.

I think the Warriors could beat the Cavs (without Irving and Love), but Curry can't touch LeBron in "star power". I'll never write off a top-five player in the NBA history when it's all said and done.