Pierce scored less, yes. Lebron did play good defense. But PP didn't have to score his average. It's a team game and when someone's hot, give them the ball. I attribute PP scoring less to the team concept and him playing defense on Lebron. At this point in time, yes Lebron is the better player. But to say that PP's scoring woes were due strictly to Lebron's defense is incorrect.
And he played better against the Magic bc LOOK AT WHO HE WAS GUARDING!! Vince Carter? LOL. Come on now. He's way past his prime. Orlando should have kept Hedo for crying out loud. He didn't have to focus od defense so thanks for proving my point. when all he has to do is play offense, he scores buckets. And I don't get why you say "accoring to my math." Look at everything I said, the math is all correct.
And no way do you base one's regular season stats vs their playoff stats. It's a different ball game. And yes since Lebron only played in two series, what else would you compare it to?
I might agree with you if Pierce didn't shot 35% for the series. 12 points lower then his season average.
Of course you compare it to the regular season. It is a larger set of data vs. 5 games against a single opponent. One shows what the player has been doing through out the season. One shows how he matches up to a single team.
Okay, you're right. He did shoot a bad percentage. But I also agreed when I said Lebron played good defense on him. My point was that he didn't shut him down. He slowed him down. And his low ppg in the series is due to both Lebron's D and him not needed/wanting to score as much.
I'm not buying it. Nobody 'shuts' anybody down. LeBron effectively eliminated Pierce on the offensive end in the Cleveland series, plain and simple. He took him out of his comfort zone and made Pierce score what few points he did in an inefficient manner. Pierce had one game where he scored relatively well, and even then he only shot 42% and needed a 32 point blowout to get to 20+ points.
Miami has a better front office and made a better read.
Cleveland had 7 years to put around James a team that could win. They failed.
1. Did they make a better read or did they know something Cleveland did not? Or Did Wade and LeBron know something that neither of their front offices did?
2. This season, at least, Cleveland put a team around LeBron that could have won. He deserves equal blame for this failure, which makes his talk of having to leave to win a ring more than a little self-serving.
Mike
I don't agree with that either. 34 year old Antawn Jamison, 36 year old Big Z, 38 year old Shaq....the only above average players not in the twilight of his career were Mo Williams, who was just terrible beyond that one game against the C's, and Andersen Varejao, who should have never seen the bench.
Then look at like...LA, or Orlando...
Bryant (LA): Gasol, prime...Bynum, prime...Odom, prime
Dwight (ORL): Rashard, prime..Nelson, prime...Vince Carter, twilight...
Cleveland might have tried their best, but their best simply wasn't good enough.
