re: Why didnt Kevin Love play in the 4th quarter tonight?

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Sure when players like Bosh and Love go from the first option to the third, their raw numbers will drop quite a a bit. That would happen anywhere with any team. Trying to use an unavoidable decrease in production in these situations as evidence for your hypothesis is intellectually dishonest.

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It's not intellectually dishonest at all. I'm more than aware of touches play a huge factor in production. However, to deny the possibility that LeBron's presence means that Love and Irving aren't reaching their apex as players, like Wade and Bosh before them, is fools gold.

Saying that players get more efficient-as if that is some defining metric in a visual game is absolutely false. Of course their efficiency numbers are through the roof, they'd don't touch the ball nearly as much,so as great as they are, they will make less mistakes with less touches.

Cleveland has adopted the pace and space offense from Miami when it's two younger star players would be better off in a Spursesque offense. Love and Irving need to be touching the ball more for Cleveland to be a winning playoff team.

This isn't LeBron from four years ago, the torch needs to be handed off.

Guys like Duncan,Bird,Magic,Kareem,Dr.J and Russell
knew when it was time to take a back seat as the focal point and start doing little things to make others better. LeBron should be trying to help Irving become best point guard in the world and Love the successor to Dirk as the preeminent shooting 4 scorer. Instead, he's still doing what he did in early Cleveland and his Miami days. He's not the same guy.