Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 at 11:46 am  |  77 responses

Kyrie Irving Puts on a Show, Drops 35 Points vs Thunder (VIDEO)

The Cavs guard went off.

Kyrie Irving admitted he was “disinterested” at times during the Cavs’ loss to the Pistons Friday night, but whatever focus he lost that night he seemed to regain Saturday, when the guard dropped a mean 35 points (including 13 in the fourth quarter) on the Oklahoma City Thunder. Full highlights of Irving’s sick performance above.

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  • Caboose

    Well, I’d probably take 04-06 Kobe over rookie LeBron, but after that…yeah. All Bron Bron.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    ok, lol, i should have said, 2007 & later LeBron.

  • http://twitter.com/Jzakoni Sanchez

    we’ll see if he stays when he becomes a unrestricted free agent

  • http://twitter.com/Jzakoni Sanchez

    i see kobe put up more points in the finals they lost,

  • http://twitter.com/Jzakoni Sanchez

    i wanna see that proof too

  • LakeShow

    MJ would have been Shaq’s side kick.

  • rkirby

    One could argue that Scottie Pippen was better at his position than Shaq was at his. Let’s also look at the fact that Jordan won three of his rings while teammates with Scottie Pippen and the greatest rebounder and all-around defender of all time. Kobe went 5/7 in the finals…one of those finals, Vladimir Radmonovic was the starting pf, Ariza the sf, vujacic and farmar were getting heavy play. The “he only won rings with Shaq/Pau” argument is on another level of corny at this point. Kyrie’s a beast too though

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    Once LeBron gets more than 2 rings, I’m sure a lot of people will act like Kobe’s so much better because he has 5. LeBron only needs 3 or 4 to be considered better than Kobe to me because he’ll get them all while being the best player on his team and still probably being a 26, 7 and 7 kind of player. I didn’t say LeBron would still have a better legacy regardless of where he was. Learn to read. I said he would still be a better player which he would be. He has been for 5 years.

  • Beastofdeast

    I’m glad this happened on westbrook. That should bring this selfish dude down to earth. I used to defend the guy but after that gimmick he pulled with Thabo. I’m glad Kyrie took him to school and no 1 of the OKC players came to help apart from Ibaka.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    ….Kobe never played in the Finals with Radmonovic as his starting PF. Did you even watch? Pau Gasol was his starting PF in his last 2 championship seasons and while Shaq was there, his starting PFs were A.C. Green, Horace Grant, Robert Horry, and old Karl Malone. The “he only won rings with Shaq/Pau” argument is actually true. Not corny. Did he not play with those players? He was the best player on the back-to-back 08-09/10-11 championship teams. Scottie was a better SF than Shaq was a Center? Exactly what do you mean by that? The most important fact that needs to be looked at when talking about Jordan is he was the best player on the floor at all times in the Finals. 6 for 6.

  • Happy

    Check the stats on the Lakers/Pistons Finals, when Kobe torpedoed the Lakers’ chance to win a ring. Now those are some interesting stats.

  • Happy

    MJ was better than Kobe. You said that like they are equal. It would have been a lot more even in terms of who would have been “the man”. I can’t see MJ shooting them out of a series either, like Kobe did in ’04.

  • Happy

    He’d have one more, and Lebron still would have the better career. One less ring with more time and more of a chance to surpass Kobe in rings. You know Kobe isn’t winning another with KD and Lebron in their primes. Let’s face it.

  • Happy

    If one could argue that, they would hence your lack of explanation. They can’t. Why? Because as great as a perimeter defender as Scottie was, it doesn’t compare to the burden big dominant Shaq took off of his entire team. Teams focused on stopping Shaq and Michael, not Pippen.

  • LakeShow

    No I didn’t say it like that. You read it like that.

    A SG is never “the man” when there is a MDE in the building.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    i agree Shaq would have been the focal point of the offense. But i don’t think it would have been anything but Jordan’s team. He was much to dominant and intense a personality.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    but HEY! read this, it pertains to our argument last week,

    .here —-> http://cbsprt.co/XFdCxG

  • LakeShow

    I disagree, but understand your perspective.
    I’ll check out that article in a moment.

  • LakeShow

    Interesting stuff.

    I can dig.

    I just don’t put to much merit behind anything that says that Westbrook is a better offensive player than Durant.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    he isn’t saying that. actually read it.

  • LakeShow

    Yeah, your right, I didn’t say that correctly.

    What I mean to say is that I can’t get behind this because it doesn’t add up to me.

    It favors a player for having allot of assists too much for what I liken offensive ability to be. I don’t find a player who can pass the ball to the open man to be a better player than the one who puts it through the hoop.

    This article and statistic use puts allot of favor offensively on the player that passes the ball to a scoring team mate. Which I don’t disagree with. I just feel it is valuing the assist too highly.

    I know you hate me for this, but it’s how I feel :)

    Thank you for showing that to me though. Keep em coming.

    Looking at the forecast and it’s gunna be nearly freezing in Tucson at night this weekend. I better bring a coat. I’ll be rolling in wednesday, hella excited to check out earths bum.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    ACTUALLY READ IT.

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    “But if we move past the complications of the assists question, it’s impossible to ignore Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony, based on scoring production alone. After all, their own scoring doesn’t present the complications of teammates that can score off their passes, and they’re the central scoring options on two of the best offenses in the league.”

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    “If we examine some of the scorer-defining play sets through Synergy, though, there are some interesting results. Durant is actually a better post scorer than you’d expect, as he has transformed his game this season. He’s second among all post scorers with 100 possessions behind Kobe Bryant.

    But isolation, which is unquestionably the most direct indication of a player’s scoring ability off the dribble, James actually lands higher among scorers with 100 possessions or more. Irving leads all players in that area, with O.J. Mayo and Jamal Crawford along with Damian Lillard in the top five”

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    I mean it clearly states that assists are over valued and complicated.

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    The only “big assist” guy on his actual top 5 is Chris Paul. Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant on the other hand both show up in the top 5, along with Tony Parker.
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    I wanted you to see the Kevin Durant/LeBron James portions of that article. – which pertained to our conversation last week. – not just the assist thing that you got all hung up on in that conversation.

  • LakeShow

    gotcha

  • z

    That’s actually EXACTLY what you said, dumbass. Learn to articulate what you’re trying (and failing, apparently) to express.

  • MasterSplinter

    This video is awesome. Kyrie reminds me of Chris Paul. He is really good, I remember back when he was at Duke, nobody had really seen him play, and when he was coming back from injury during the NCAA tournament, he started and played a lot, Coach K was getting a lot of flak, and he simply said “Kyrie is really that good, people just haven’t seen him play very much.” If he gets some talent around him, he is really going to make some noise.

  • MasterSplinter

    Just the fact that Interdico said Kyrie has earned his respect, and Kobe and Lebron have not is pretty entertaining. Lebron and Kobe have won championships, have gold medals, have been 1st team all NBA and been on the all-nba defensive team. Oh by the way, they came in to the league out of high school. Kyrie has done waaaaaaay more than that right? he does have game for sure, but common man…

  • Mack

    Where has LeBron been a sidekick? LeBron is the man no matter where he goes.

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