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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2743719, member: 488"] I remain pretty firm on everything I've said about KD. He's one of the best basketball players ever. You let him square off with LeBron five times every June and he's bound to outplay him on some of those occasions. Tonight was one of those nights. 43 points on 23 shots is a glitch in the system, straight up. That's create a player mode. And he was phenomenal defensively as well. LeBron was timid in the second half. He needed to live in the paint and seek out those Curry/Thompson switches. Settling for jumpers a couple times late, deferring to role players like Thompson and Smith at inopportune times, holding the ball too late in the shot clock and then giving it up in crisis...he just left some plays on the table tonight that we expect him to make. It's one thing to have a night where maybe you're not comfortable with your jump shot, but in those situations I'd like to think he can grind it out, get to the line a dozen times, and carry his team across the finish line on fumes. I don't want to do the constant MJ comparison but if we're keeping score at home, he seemed to fair better in these sort of rock fights. I feel like he would have found a way to get that one. Not the series, but that one. Having said that, the gap between LeBron and the world's second best player is larger than it's ever been. It was predictable that people would fool themselves into thinking this was a conversation because it was predictable that KD would play the cleaner, more efficient games for the winning team in this series. This is the perfect match-up for him and the brilliance of his decision to join this organization is that everything has been lined up for him on a tee. I don't resent him for it at all and would do the same thing if I were in his position, but this whole Warriors team is still child's play in comparison to the guy lining up for the other side. Everyone who watches ball knows the score on that one. [/QUOTE]

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