Just want your take.
The Cavs with a healthy roster beats the Warriors. Without Love, Irving, Verajeo, the games were close in the 4th. The Cavs players could not hit shots after game 3 it seemed in the 4th some kind of meltdown offensively and it became a trend, the defense was there but not the offense. They almost beat the Warriors without a healthy roster.
There is zero doubt a Cavs team with a healthy Love + Irving would win that that series in 5 or 6 games. , I think that if Kyrie didn't get hurt this year, the Cavs would have won it based on how the series played out, but it'd be much more difficult and probably go to at least 7 games with a lot closer results than the last few games showed.
Cavs lose in 4 if Love and Kyrie play. The defense won the two games they did win, those two weaken that defense.
Haha, no.
Warriors win. The loss of Love helped them as even their own coaches said. Golden State played down to their level oc compe ion. It was like in 1999 when the Knicks gave the Spurs a little trouble with a depleted roster. It's human nature to do as little as possible to succeed. Also this was a 4-2 series and the last games weren't that close.
No.
They arguably missed Love's presence in this series more than Kyrie.
GSW still win
GSW wins in even more convincing fashion. Love will kill the defense and rebounding.
Irving may help a bit on offense, but give up more on defense.
Varaejao will help though, not sure if he could overcome the presence of Love though.
Just with a Healthy Irving, the Cavs win this series. Include a healthy Varajeo the Cavs dominate this series. Love, due to his horrible PnR defense actually would hurt the Cavs.
Dubs win in 5. Kyrie is basically another JR Smith, so those two chuckers would shoot them out of the series. Easy question tbh.
Cavs in 3
I'm trying to figure out how the Cavaliers losing two guys who can combine for 60 points on any given night, who space out the floor immensely, who take a huge amount of pressure off LeBron, would help the Warriors win more convincingly. It's true that neither Kyrie nor Love are stellar defenders, but the Cavaliers were never going to win this series on the defensive end. They needed to score with Golden State and they were simply unable to do so.
I'm not even saying it's automatic the Cavaliers would have won with those two healthy. But they sure as would have had a better chance. I mean, Curry didn't even have to guard anyone the last three games of the series. At least Kyrie would have made him work on that end. And when the Cavaliers were at full strength in the second half of the season they were every bit as dominant as the Warriors were.
Put it this way- if the Cavaliers were at full strength and the Warriors were without Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, how would this series have turned out?
Cavs defense wasn't even that good the last 3 games. They needed scoring and bench production more than defense. A healty Cavs team wins in 6.
Cavs imo. Their downfall was fatigue imo. With so many injured players they had no time to rest.
I second that.
I remember Steve Kerr during game 4 said "these guys will tire out, just be patient".
Cavs rotation was too limited. Lebron couldn't rest without them falling back even further.
Dubs would still win this. LeBron`s workload would be much smaller, but those guys wont make diffrence in series result.
Cavs would've won the series with ease barring injuries tbh, and the warriors are probably the weakest NBA champions since 06' Miami cHeat. The warriors would've have even got out of the west if Dallas had Dragic instead of son of a Rondo tbh.
It's still beyond me why Blatt refused to give meaningful playing time to his vets like Marion and Miller in this series. They're old but they can still get done one thing or two, at least they could've earned Lebron a bit more time to rest tbh.
Warriors in 7
If Curry isn't slave whipped by Delly, GSW in 5.
Cavs were great all year with Love and Irving, their on/off lineups were at their best with Love/Irving, it's become pretty vanilla to downplay them, despite their flaws, tbh..
Irving looked great on both ends in game 1 in an OT loss that they may have won had he stayed in the game..
Even if you have Love com off the bench, he would have been a huge factor for a team with no frontcourt depth..
have you seen Mathew Dellevadova shoot and dribble the ball? Even IRVING would have made a huge difference.
One hard hit to the chest of Kevin by Draymond Green and its over...the Lakers would v e DAM FOOLS if they went after this softcake...and Kyrie is doomed...he will never be healthy for the playoffs not ever..mark my words..the dude is glass everything.....he wont last....
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