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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
I didn't knock Durant. I said that his team struggled to beat a far inferior Rockets team and that he was a far worse player than Durant (both of which are true).
I have no problem knocking LeBron tonight. He wasn't anywhere near as good as he had to be to beat the Bulls.
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As I've said before (and LeBron still has time to do it)... he still has to prove that he can close a close game. Last year's playoffs and already with the Bucks series, he has been flat-out dominant in the first 3 quarters. But between last year's playoffs and this year's playoffs, he's been deceptively mediocre in the last 2-3 minutes of a game. Passes up on way too many shots in a close game and too often misses the shots he does take.
The question is, seeing that he was pretty bad in the last 2-3 minutes... can he get it out of his head? To his credit, this year, he's been nails late in games in ways that he hasn't usually. But I would say that this is about as much pressure as he's going to face all year, given the expectations of him going into game 2.