He's there only to do his offsensive part as he's clearly not fit for anything else.
He is insanely amazing on offensive side, and I know about his niggling injury he is playing with. But only there to do offensive part does not work in an NBA finals. Yes his teammates are letting him down on offense. But he was letting them down on defense entire game.
Jrue, White, Brown were litterally just running straight to the basket whenever he was on them and he just was letting them go by without trying.
He is not fit to defend well even when healthy, but atleast try, he wasn't trying most of the game ans that was super costly.
Celtics allways have 4 out of 5 guys who can create their shot and drive. So this is not the Wolves (Kyle Anderson/Naw), OKC (Dort) or Clippers (Amir Coffey) where he can rest on a non shooter or shaky spot up guy who will never drive to basket.
Most of his advanced stats good D stats this playoffs is post defence with backed paint D behind him, slow post players he just stays on. Or non scorers he can hide on.
To actually think he is top 5 player in D this playoffs is crazy to me.
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Doncic has been playing above and beyond, he deserves no blame whatsoever. Mavs need to move on from Kyrie and try to get some actual good players on their team.
This not about blaming him, he has carried them. But to address the glaring weakness they are exploiting. He is facing a quadruple offensive threat team, and they just targeting him and nullifying him by getting as much points on him as they are scoring on him.
If he is gonna keep seeing this Celtics team in nba finals in coming years, this is part or his game he needs to elevate, and try to be more of acceptable ok defender. Not even two way player, just try more and put in more effort.
Duh they are losing because rest of team can't score and this all nba level starting lineup of celtics are shutting them down while cooking them on offense (even in bad shooting nights). He is getting his 30 pt triple double. But to elevate his game to next level for future finals, he needs to stop playing at matador defense. It works vs opponents who only have 1 or 2 scorers, not a whole starting lineup of them.
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Doncic has been playing above and beyond, he deserves no blame whatsoever. Mavs need to move on from Kyrie and try to get some actual good players on their team.
There is no way they can get anyone better then Kyrie next to Luka.
What they need is another shot creator/scorer off bench or in one of the forward spots, so it's not just 3 guys waiting to be fed by Luka otherwise they can't get buckets. Triple threat more well rounded players.
But those types will cost you.
But as for 2nd options go, unless it's a big wing scorer that's a superstar, it's really friggin hard to get a better Robin then Kyrie.
It's reactionary to think just get rid of kyrie. They are in the finals because he finally got a good 2nd option teammate like kyrie, and solid defensive role players.
It's just that vs super stacked celtics, you need more then that.
Not really a Celtics fan, followed Knicks, then Mavs, then Wizards while KP was there and I have to say Celtics have been a wildly different experience lol.
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