Kyrie got hot and hit those threes in the fourth...
But at no point in the game did I see him ever attempt to be the bad motherfucker we know he is. I never saw him get a chance to attack relentlessly in PnR& Isolation.
Maybe we were sending too much help at him all night(he better get used to triple teams though...)
but he looked neutered offensively.
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The problem is, that Boston really doesn't have a lot of floor spacing. And Kyrie reverted to playmaking role. I give him credit for trying it, and yeah, he had 10 assists, and made some solid plays, but he's not elite at this.
But Kyrie, more so than LB even, needs floor spacing to excel. He doesn't have super playmaking skills like LeBron does. He can shoot well, but his bread and butter is always breaking down the defense. That's what he does best. By far.
With no Hayward, man, there's no one that you consider not helping off to contain Kyrie.
Brown got hot tonight, not sure he can be THAT much of a threat.
I think Boston's entire season/expectations badly was destroyed tonight with Hayward going down.
Still a playoff team? Sure, but more like a bottom of the barrel team than the second threat they thought they'd be this year.
I doubt it. The boos were coming down no matter what. Delly and Moz didn't force trades out of Cleveland. In Delly's case he left because the Cavs didn't match the offer. Entirely different situations than Kyrie's.You know I wish he hadn't said some of the stupid shit he had said, because I imagine the boos would have been significantly less.
Like Delly and Moz both got standing o's, applause when they came back. I imagine Kyrie would have gotten the same had he approached things in a better way.
Also...damn, how many bridges did Kyrie burn on his way out?
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