wildturkey
Well-Known Member
Your forgetting, the problem with Cleveland was the defense the lakers are trying to give LBJ defensive players. You need defense. That was clevelands problem.
I'm not forgetting at all. You're being a prisoner of the moment and only thinking of the most recent Lebron team. This goes beyond whatever happened with the 2018 Cavs and its being really shortsighted to just look at that and say "They failed so do the opposite". Lebron has been in the league what, 15 years? We have a book on him by now where we all know what works and what doesn't. When he's at his best, when he's won titles, he has versatile shooters around him because he's the supreme PG. He attracts so much attention that it makes it impossible to guard the entire floor if there's guys parked all along the floor that can knock it down from anywhere. Doesn't matter if it Korver, Frye, Richard Jefferson, Ray Allen, JR Smith, Shane Battier, etc. They're all guys that can shoot and are good team defenders. Those are the types of players you sign when you have a player like Lebron, not defensive specialist that struggle putting the ball in the net. You need guys that can do both.