What message did Mr Irving send?

Well, first of all, Kyrie.

Irving.

I mean, he had moments.

He didn't have a big game statistically, but he had moments where he put on the show.

He just showed you just a kind of ability that he we all know that he has.

The kid is spectacular.

There's no way around that.

Yes, they did not have Kevin Durant in the Los Angeles Lakers did not have Anthony Davis.

But watching this game, the message that I appealed from it is that, as I said before the Brooklyn Nets air coming out of the Eastern Conference, they will be in the n B A finals barring any significant injuries.

And as far as I'm concerned last night, to me said to me that they should be the championship favorites.

The Brooklyn that should be the favorites toe win the world championship.

The questionable health off Anthony Davis.

Combined with the way the offense is playing the fluidity distribution of the basketball, the Joe Harris is of the world in the starting lineup.

Jeff Green.

How you could go small the way Brooklyn did last night.

You know Bruce Brown, along with Joe Harris along with Kyrie and James Harden, with Jeff Green playing the center spot you got, you got four or five guys on the floor that allow a threat from three point range.

They went relatively small, and they definitely had an advantage over the Los Angeles Lakers in the first quarter because LeBron obviously only had seven points in the first quarter.

Couldn't really, really get it going.

You expected him to attack from the interior all night long.

He did it enough, but in the same breath, he was still struggling from three point range, which was Riddick Kable in the end.

I'm just looking at the Brooklyn Nets right now and the way they're getting others involved.

The Joe Harris is the Jeff Green's of the world, the Landry chairman of the world and what they could do from the perimeter and the fact that these guys are literally feeding the basketball.

You see the effect that Steve Nash and Mike D'Antoni, the offensive minds that they have coming into play here and by the way they get defensive stops at times when they need them is well, So I looked at all of that and I'm willing to to clear here today that the Brooklyn Nets should be the favorites to win the chip.

They should be the favorites.

Toe win it all.

That's where I'm at right now.

That's what I appeared from last night.

The message that Kyrie and Harden sent toe LeBron last night was really recognize Riel game, recognize game.

And when Kyrie remember back Stephen A.

When Kyrie made the comments about K D and how for the first time at the end of the game, he sees another dude.

He wasn't lying.

What he's showing is he wasn't lying.

I think he ignored LeBron's judgment.

I'd still rather have the ball in LeBron's hands with everything he could do with the ball, including score.

But what Kyrie was talking about is a guy he trusts in that moment to hit a shot from anywhere, just like he can harden to James Harden plays played with some great players.

He was too young to know how to be great with other great players when he was first in okay, see, that's why he and Westbrook couldn't share the floor.

That's why I used him as 1/6 man and he wasn't very good there either when the pressure mounted and later in Houston, when he got Chris Paul.

Let's not forget.

By the time the playoffs rolled around, Chris Paul was probably off a step probably missed because of injuries that made him look like he was declining.

And Westbrook is not a shooter to begin with.

This is the first time James Harden and Kyrie Irving are playing.

Last night it was with one other guy.

But when K D is healthy, it's two other guys who are just like them that way, who they trust to hit a big shot from anywhere on the court at any given time, especially when it matters.

This the and you saw it, you know you brought up Kyrie Irving.

The numbers don't tell the story from Cairo's game yesterday.

Yes, we showed some highlights.

He had some very tough shots late, but we know his skill level.

He could do that, but it was.

Kyrie is willingness to move the ball, not just the assists but the hockey assist.

The assist that led to the assist, the pass that led to the assist.

The way they move the ball unselfishly, James Harden to his court vision.

I knew James Harden could pass, but oh my God, the court vision he's shown since he's come to the Nets.

It's the same sort of thing these guys see game recognize game that foods just like me could get his own shot at any time as well as anyone who ever lived and can hit it from anywhere, as well as anyone who ever lived.

You went through the Nets roster.

Stephen A.

What about TLC In the corner, right?

Their guys are wide open because of these players.

Gravity and they're unselfish play and the message they sent toe.

LeBron, of course, is we're coming.

But it's because game recognize game.

They're playing unselfish basketball.

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