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There has been a lot of talk this year about how LeBron James hasn't had enough help, and he has had to carry an extra heavy role. Kobe Bryant who has won a few titles of his own doesn't buy it and thinks that LeBron has a lot of good quality players on the team.
Via the New York Times:
“It seems like he has some good talent to me. He’s got (Kyle) Korver who’s a great shooter, J.R. Smith who has always been a solid player — we focus on his one mistake and that tends to overshadow all the things he’s done to help them win a championship before — you’ve got Kevin Love, who was an All-Star and an Olympian; Rodney Hood, who was a 17-point scorer in the Western Conference; you’ve got Tristan (Thompson) who is back to playing like he played a few years ago.”
Usually, when someone talks about how LeBron James has no help, it's because they are trying to raise him up as a player. Bryant doesn't think those two have to go hand in hand. James can be having a spectacular year, and his teammates can also be good.
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“He’s got some workable pieces there. I don’t understand how, in order to talk about how great LeBron is we need to [expletive] on everybody else. That’s not O.K. Those guys have talent. I don’t buy this whole thing that he’s playing with a bunch of garbage.”
The problem with the rest of the Cleveland Cavaliers roster might not actually be the talent level, but when the role players step up and play big games.
It seems like not often do four or five of the role players step up, it usually ends up being James and one other guy stepping up, and the rest of the guys struggling.
In Game 3 the role players did step up in a big way, but Kevin Durant was too much, and the Cavaliers still lost the game.
