Series MVP
Kevin Durant deserves all the accolades he is getting. Cleveland had no answer
for him – 35 PPG, 8 RPG, 5 APG, 1 SPG, 1 BPG, 55%/47%/92%. That is a crazy stat line playing against an
excellent Cleveland Cavaliers team and he played good defense. We knew he was special and probably the
number two guy behind LeBron but there is no doubt now. Amazing how we knew he was great but was
still able to put an exclamation point on it with this series.
Cleveland
has to be disappointed even if they believe they weren’t the better team. Sans a late game meltdown in game three who
knows? Maybe that, coupled with a game
four win, would have put more pressure on Golden State and given them an
opportunity to steal the series. As is
they aren’t as good. I personally think
they need to move Kevin Love and get more scoring. Love hasn’t played a good Finals yet and
while I like him, they can do better.
Moving him wouldn’t be easy with his big contract but you never know
what might happen. LeBron once again
showed the world how great he is and Kyrie shined for most of the series. They just really have nothing else to
offer. J.R. Smith was absent at times,
Tristan Thompson wasn’t a factor, and the bench was lackluster at best. We’ll see if this offseason they can give
themselves a better shot at beating a stacked Warriors team who isn’t going
anywhere.
That was such a great finals series. Basketball does not get much better than that, in my opinion!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed it quite a bit. It was great seeing how well Golden State could play against a top tier team.
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