Jrue Holiday is just as good if not better than Paul George (Clippers would be significantly better if they swapped). All-NBA/All-star are positional/conference dependent so that’s irrelevant especially for folks who play different positions. As far as not having a 5th guy, Forbes literally played the Reggie Jackson role & outscored Jimmy “As good as Kawhi” Butler in a series. Besides, you gloss over Giannis lack of shooting ability holding back the team but had Kawhi been on the Bucks they would be the “most complete team”
Awww, his shoulder all of a sudden starts hurting when things don’t go his way.
Last season the excuse was Porzingis got injured while he was playing well offensively thus the Clippers started the series with Kawhi guarding him so he could switch when they run the high PnR or just guard him straight up. Luka Westbrook decided to freeze out his wingman b/c he didn’t want smoke with Kawhi & instead picked on Zubac/Reggie/Batum. The great Ty Lue came with the fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on you defensive coverage again in Gm 2. He also started the 1st quarter of Gm 3 with that same strategy before Kawhi took the wheels & took a dump on the entire state of Texas.
After Luka Westbrook’s absolute chucking performance in Gm 5, Kawhi dared him to go mano-a-mano but the wasn’t heard from until glorified garbage time. In Gm 7, Kawhi made sure the Clippers weren’t asleep at the wheel & was already planning for the 2nd round by feeding Morris who finally started punishing Luka.
Yeah, run-of-the-mill like Embiid’s but not like the ankle sprain that ended Queen James career. Kawhi sprained his ankle in Gm 5 against the Rockets then twice in the same quarter against the Duds. All of which were high impact.