I echo what faf is saying. Why complain when the team is playing terribly and your star player effectively takes over a playoff game against the #1 defense in the league?
Sure, I would love everybody to score 20 a game on high efficiency, but when you have the Morris’ of the world going iso-crazy shooting 0-8, you need Kyrie to step up and he did.
You keep saying that all he does is dribble the air out of the ball. That just doesn’t appear to be what he is doing. He is our PG and our best player, he is likely going to have the ball more often than others.
This is Kyrie I thought they were getting when they traded for him - the guy no one can guard when he's on. And given the way that the majority of the squad was struggling offensively tonight, I was fine with him taking as many shots as he did.
This is what was needed in this particular game. And several times down the stretch he was drawing double teams and when that happened, he passed and guys got open shots.
Horford - as Tommy pointed out - was a step slow offensively all night. Morris sucked, Hayward, though looking for his shot was having trouble getting past guys and a lot of the C's difficulty was due to the Pacers defense being pretty good.
Kyrie did what was required. I would however like to see Jaylen getting more than 6 shorts and Hayward getting more than 7. Not enough action going to the hoop tonight by anyone not named Kyrie - but again, the Pacers defense had a little bit to do with that.