Just for the record, I don't think GS's path to the finals has been harder than ours.
Especially with the injuries we've dealt with, we've been more impressive than them. Yeah, I know, I know, the West is better than the East. But they got lucky and dodged all their competition in the West.
We had go through all of ours. Defeat the Bulls, go up against a team that won 60 games.
Let's be honest, the Rockets aren't any better than Atlanta. Both these teams are pretty flawed.
Memphis was the biggest mismatch you could have found for GS. Personally, I thought GS should have swept them, but they didn't. Memphis is a good team, but suffer from similar problems like Atlanta. They don't really have a go-to-scorer, that can carry them. They struggle to score a lot of points, a team like that isn't beating GS. But they made them sweat a little.
They are a good team, but they got lucky. Sometimes you need luck to win it all.
With us it comes down to match ups. They do cause us some problems with match ups. If Kyrie can bounce back, I like our chances. He's not going to stop Steph, no one can. But he can go toe-to-toe against him in the scoring column, and that's considered a win against Steph.
If Kyrie is himself again, I think we can beat this team. But it all depends on him being Kyrie Irving again.