ACisKING
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I believe LeBron thought we had a chance last year against the Warriors having Kyrie and all, considering how well Kyrie played on the big stage, he thought him and Kyrie could do it again despite everything.
This year Batman has no Robin, unpopular opinion but I truly believe LeBron really wants and plans to lose before making the finals this year because he knows he’ll get seriously embarrassed if he drags this team there, it will be a bloodbath and he knows it, he simply doesn’t want another Finals L.
It won’t be blatant like 2009 I think he’ll do it subtly, he’ll still get nice numbers but nothing amazing like completely taking over games like we know he can do, overall he’s going to play more passively especially on defense.
In my opinion this why LeBron was playing all 82 and stuffing the stat sheet every game, he’s chasing that all time list and he wanted to maximize every single game doing so, because this year LeBron was not his usual “screw the regular season it’s all about the playoffs” usual self, one of LeBrons best regular seasons ever especially numbers wise.
So your theory is that LeBron is going to try and intentionally lose to avoid going to the Finals? I mean I agree that deep down he probably knows this team is not good enough to win it all - hell anyone with eyes can see that. But I don’t buy that he is going to try and lose on purpose. At the very least I don’t see any evidence from yesterday to show that. He played hard yesterday...dude was winded at one point...he just didn’t play all that well. It happens to everyone.