by NovU on Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:25 am
LBJ Finals Stats
.477 TS%
40.8 USG%
104 ORtg
Regular Season
.577 TS%
32.3 USG%
112 ORtg
Those that rave about LBJ's Finals performance... Just No, he did not play well. There is big difference between LBJ System Played Out Well and actual LBJ playing well. It's the system that somewhat kept the Cavs in the series, not because LBJ was spectacularly fucking up the Warriors on single handed effort. You know who actually vastly upped performance in the finals from regular season? Mozgov and especially Tristan Thompson.
You can't tell from numbers? Let me put this in a perspective even idiots can understand. League average TS% is about .532 TS%. Imagine how tough it is to win when your best scorer uses 40.8% of possessions(makes Kobe look like a noob at ball thugging) and shoots .60 TS% less than average player. Even heavily guarded Iverson in the Finals shot better than LBJ against a stacked team with significant size advantage.
This is the point already made by Jackal. This series was an excellent example of team basketball thriving over Hero Ball. The Cavs had no choice to go all in into LBJ hero system. What trumped at the end is Curry/Klay system with more team emphasis. Now, Iggy was a product of stepping up within the system but he wasn't the System just as Tristan was able to thrive in smaller scale within LBJ system. Curry and Klay are still important pieces, not expendable.
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NovU on Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:41 am, edited 2 times in total.
THX TO DOPE-JAO FOR THE SPECIAL SIG! <3

Enjoy! <3 Jao