I wish it was hyperbole, but we've all seen how this team played up until James took over playmaking. Subtract James, and the Cavs are struggling to play .500 ball. We knew Kyrie needed help with playmaking, that was the idea behind teaming him with Dion and trading for Jack, but none of that worked! But James could walk in on "Kyrie's team" and rip the ball from his hands and say, I got this ... because he's LeBron.
Combining Love with Irving sounds good on paper except the part that Irving still hasn't learned how to post-up a big man, and he still prefers to try to finish in a crowd or pass to a big near the hoop rather than kick the ball behind him to a spot up shooter.
btw, I've never argued that Kyrie was a "rich man's Boobie" extensively or even once. I have spent quite a bit of team clarifying what I did say, but some people continue to refuse to listen. Go figure.
Something I recognized then, and I recognize now, is that Kyrie has a long way to go to learn how to run a team ... to make the guys around him better. Not only does LeBron address that for him, he drops him down to second option on offense which means less pressure and more space for Irving to dance his way to the rim. Something he struggled to do when defenses could focus on stopping him.