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Message: [QUOTE="gsmooth, post: 3675742, member: 9355"] As far as pure skill and talent, both Kyrie and Kemba are top notch. Kyrie is super skilled and might even exceed Kemba a little. If you say Kyrie is a 10, Kemba is probably a 9, not to far off. But leadership and chemistry matter. For example, Kemba started the season on tear and was lighting it up. Then he cooled off (might've been due to the knee) and Tatum went on a tear. Basketball analysts started to say, "originally we thought of Kemba as the #1 option, but this might be Tatum's team". Now if Kemba heard that, he wouldn't have been affected by that one bit or took that as a slight, because he really doesn't care (more on this later). All he wants to do is win. Now put Kyrie in Kemba's position. If Kyrie heard that, he would've felt threatened as he has to be the #1 guy (hell, he messed up a great situation in Cleveland because of this) and he would've disrupted the whole team. Last year, the Celtics looked discombobulated and reluctantly passed the ball to each other. In fact earlier in Kemba's response to reporters he said "I am the placeholder. This is their team now (Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum)". Marcus Smart disagreed, but that just shows Kemba doesn't care about who is the #1 guy and all that ego stuff. [/QUOTE]