No. Love is an All-NBA player. Kyle Korver is a role player. Trying to compare them is wrong.
Again, I don't give a shit about these regular season games. I've made that stance clear in various threads.
If you think we're winning anything running 10+ plays a game in The Finals for Korver you're kidding yourself. This isn't perennial All-Star Ray Allen, or Kevin Love. This is a role player. A 35 year old one at that. You don't waste so many possessions revolving your offense around a role player unless you want to lose. Period.
Korver getting 10 shots a game in the finals is definitely not a BAD thing at all.
In-fact, I would hope that Korver is involved in many many many more than just "10" actions throughout the course of a 25 minute performance. We would be doing a disservice to ourselves otherwise.
I'm not saying I want every Korver action to result in Korver taking a three.
The big thing that our players will have to learn to take advantage of is the free space and scoring opportunities that are created for EVERYONE ELSE as a RESULT of the action involving Korver.
Theoretical lineup: Kyrie, JR, Korver, Bron, TT
**DISCLAIMER: This play sounds like it takes 90 seconds to run because I'm being too descriptive, but every time I've seen it ran by the Cavs with somebody besides Korver or by the Hawks when they had Korver, the first pass is usually made around the 7-10 second mark which gives plenty of time for the ending and a shot. This play also works with LeBron posting up at either elbow but requires a little bit of a different 2nd action but I wont get into that now.
Eventually it will be realized by say, LeBron, that everyone they run Korver off of a back-screen/pin-down on the left hand side of the court, there will come a point where Korver will flare out to the 3 point line on the left wing, instinct would usually tell you to get Korver the ball as soon as he flares out. That's what we've seen the most so far, even. But anyways, that can be a good play and a good shot, SOMETIMES, because sometimes Korver will be extremely open. But a lot of the time, just that one simple action won't get him what I'll call "optimal" space.
Anyways, so instead of hitting Korver with the pass every single time, LeBron will slowly learn to work the full set for what it is worth. After Korver flares out, if he has a guy right on him or even somebody close enough to where the three is no longer really an "open three", LeBron won't hit him with the pass. Instead, LeBron himself will get a screen probably by the big, so TT. As this p&R begins to develop, this where the pin-down portion of the play comes into effect. As LeBron works his screen on the right side, Korver is going to move to the elbow at an angle, his defender will follow. Tristan has already rolled into the paint by now because LeBron forced a switch, so now the other teams 5 is guarding LeBron on the right wing. Korver is moving towards the elbow, Thompson is in the paint. We have JR and Kyrie in each respective corner, Kyrie on the right side, JR on the left. And this is where the SECOND action occurs. Kyrie streaks from the right corner, baseline, under the hoop like he's switching corners, JR slides halfway to the middle from the left corner, still beyond the arc.
As Kyrie is coming baseline, Korver from the elbow, is going to fake like he's going to where Kyrie just came from, but then he's going to flare out to the left corner where J.R. just was. At this moment, if it works as planned, Thompson will have a screen set that effective PINS the guy guarding Korver DOWN, meaning towards the baseline, which forces Korver's man on to Kyrie and therefore Kyrie's man onto Korver. If Kyrie timed it right and the screen was good, Kyrie would have been heading towards where J.R. was standing, and JR slides DEAD CENTER behind the 3 point line. Korver is headed to the corner with a nice step or two on his new defender. LeBron knows its time to GO. He starts a dribble drive, probably gets forced baseline(because if not it's an automatic lay-up thanks to this action, there's too much scrambling to re-attach to the guys beyond the arc).
Korver's gets to the corner and he's got clear steps ahead of the guy on him, Kyrie is also behind the arc on the left hand side. We're going to assume that they're going to try to contest instead of getting a wide open corner 3 for Korver. So Kyrie's defender will see this as he sees LeBron start driving. So they will then start rotation. Kyrie's defender will go to Korver, JR's guy will slide to Korver, and then Korver's guy's ultimate job will be to try and get to JR, who has now slid even further away to the right wing behind the arc where LeBron had started to drive.
Now depending on exactly what LeBron' sees going on, he's either going to rifle it to Korver in the corner(that's the way it's drawn up, at least), or bounce it back to J.R, Korver is the easier pass because of LeBron's direction though. Giving the D the benefit of the doubt, let's say that the rotations start, and when Korver gets the ball, Kyrie's guy is flying in for the contest. Korver flips it to Kyrie, and JR's man is flying in....but the beauty of the action is, Smith has slid so far to the right, as long as Kyrie makes that little touch pass to J.R, the guy covering Korver probably will not make it back to J.R. in time because he was running towards the corner, got pinned down, and had to locate his rotation assignment, stop momentum, turn around, and get almost all the way across the court. JR with a wide open shot, right around where Kyrie's "the Shot" was taken.
This was an action designed for Korver, made possible and optimized by Korver, and the likelihood of Korver actually taking the shot is probably down as the 4th of 5th option on the list. It's a design for Korver to basically get the hockey assist. But it also opens a huge driving lane for LeBron to go 1v1 with a switch, it leaves Tristan with the mismatch advantage in case there is a lob or a missed shot and possible rebound, it should get J.R a wide open shot whether it comes from LeBron behind the back bounce pass(JR would be REALLLLLY WIDE OPEN in this case) or a Korver-initiated "swing the ball around the three point line" hockey assist. Kyrie is more of a distraction in this play as well, but there's a possibility that the rotation fails early enough that he takes the shot instead of JR, oh and finally, there's always the chance that it really could just be Korver with a wide open three from the shortest spot on the floor to shoot a three.
This example really doesn't even mean anything specific. I am jsut trying to illustrate my point: when the entire team learns how to benefit from Korver's off-ball action, we will start to see HUGE dividends. Because Korver as a simple catch&shoot guy like J.R. or Shumpert is really really good, but adding the "Korver dimension" to our offensive sets is what can be special about this team with this acquisition.
