The only thing that bothers me about the criticism he takes is go venture in to the Kyrie thread. In all honesty, you could replace Love in the above with Kyrie and it would read the same to me. And yet, go in to the Kyrie thread and see how many excuses are being made for Irving.
Love is always the lightening rod. I'm not saying he should not be criticized because frankly, he deserves it SOME times. But there's a large cross section of our fan base that seemingly just cheers against him and the moment he has a sub par game is in here saying "SEE, THIS IS WHY". Has one off game "TRADE HIM!".....or speculates that he needs to get fat so he can be good again.
This isn't directed solely at you, I have just always found it very strange. Case in point....Love's post season averages through 3 games:
19 PPG, 7 REB, 8-17 3 PT (47%), 15-28 FG (64.3%).
I mean, I'm not sure what else a 3rd option is expected to do. Because even though he has those numbers, there are plenty of people who rag on him for very unreasonable things. Does he need to be better? Sure but a 19 point 3rd option is ******* incredible. He has his short comings every now and then but the rest of the league would kill to have him as a 1 or 2 option, let alone a 3.