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On the other hand, I'd like to see Psych refute the argument that this season shows you LeBron is the best player in the league. That roster, THAT ROSTER, WON 61 GODDAMNED GAMES last year. The Lakers without Kobe make the playoffs. Seriously.
This isn't the same roster as last year or the team that won those games. They are down Delonte, Parker, Z, Shaq, Andy, and Mo has literally check out. They have new coaching in Scott who no players tend to like for any prolonged time in any stop and has a system that is overly PG dominant. Guys have no clear cut roles anymore or anything and management didn't even take the gamble in Iverson who honestly is the only player that might have been able to give them some kind of familiarity with how they played last year because of his way of playing the game.
The Cavs main problem is that they built a team solely to compliment LeBron. The guys played off LeBron's strengths and they essentially made him the system, which is why they are so poor now. Taking LeBron away from the Cavs is like removing Iverson from the Sixers team that made the Finals, Nash from the Suns, or Paul away from the Hornets last year. There is no system in place with those examples, just a player and bunch of guys to magnify their original greatness even more. That makes for good regular season basketball but horrible when it comes to winning postseason games.
You can't be as good with Kobe, Pierce, or Duncan off of their current teams but the squads would compete because they have a system in place and use that system instead of making their star their system. The teams know how to play, guys know how to get shots, where to cut, where to pass, and what to do with the basketball. That boils down to those teams being more accountable across the board, which is why they are successful.