HurricaneKid
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Yea I can understand it, I mean if you look at the regular season numbers last season Lowrly had the better numbers & Kyrie was also recoreving from the knee injury.
But still I never thought Lowrly was the better or more talented player if that makes sense
I think this is the heart of the fundamental disagreement about Kyrie. Kyrie has magical flashes (Spurs came 2 years ago, etc) but he has been really inconsistent and at times even bordering on disappointing during the regular season. I don't believe he is capable of dealing with the grind of 82 reg season games, plus another 25 postseason games (nevermind Team USA responsibilities, etc) at peak play.
And that length of time is what strengthens the RPM data.
Kyrie had a really tough regular season last year. Mostly (in retrospect after winning a title) I give him a pass because of the knee; but mostly he was just warming up into his NBA Jam mode.
And he has shown himself to be a big game player. And at the end of the day his play in the Finals mattered a lot more to me than some random Tuesday night in March against the Kings. And RPM looks at the two the same.
So yeah, Kyrie doesn't show the consistently elite output that some superstars are able to muster. But in great leverage situations there aren't a lot of people I'd rather have the ball.
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