3. If the Cavs and Warriors were 100% healthy, who would win the finals?

If the Cavs and Warriors were 100% healthy, who would win the finals?

Kyrie

Shump

Lebron

Love

Mozgov

Second unit:

Delly

JR

Jones

TT

Andy

Small ball:

Kyrie

JR

Shump

Lebron

Love

Take that small ball lineup versus any lineup the Warriors can throw at you (Curry, Klay, Livingston/Iggy, Barnes, Green) and there really is no answer for Lebron/Love in the post, especially given their passing which would let three above average 3point shooters (>35%) get wide open, in rhythm threes.

Bring in the bully D lineup of Delly, Shump, Lebron, TT, Mozgov or the bully rebounding lineup of Delly, Shump, Lebron, Love, TT and the Warriors get outmuscled on the boards even with Bogut and Green both on the floor.

Explosive rebounding/small ball lineup would be Delly, JR, Shump, Bron, TT. And that also works as a reserve unit that is currently destroying the Hawks on the boards and creating wide open threes for Delly/JR/Shump.

Kyrie at 100% is a top-three iso player in the league who torched the Spurs for 57 this year. Love finally found rhythm as a 3rd option but can still put up 1st option type numbers if left open (which invariably will happen given the number of weapons on this team).

Also JR has games where he shoots it like he's the best player in the league, and you really just have to throw in the towel if he goes 8-11 from deep on an already stacked team.

Playoff Lebron enjoys the ability to easily put up 15 assists per game and probably averages a triple double just because he can. Also despite Jones being serviceable, they probably don't play him and thus a defensive liability is eliminated from the rotation.

Varejao gets a few clutch o-boards and TT gets relief from constant rebounding work, allowing him to be more effective in his minutes.

The Warriors will see the return of Speights, but they will have to make adjustments at some point in the series to play Lee and Speights more because they just can't matchup against the Cavs size.

Curry and Klay are limited and both don't get to go off. Probably only one torches the Cavs, maybe neither (they went 10-30 against a healthy Cavs team this year in a 99-110 loss).

Of course, Lebron can just say fuck it to strategy and pour in 42/11/5 like he did earlier this year and posterize all of Green/Barnes/Bogut at some point all while being played straight up cause you'd be an idiot to leave any of Kyrie/JR/Shump/Love wide open.

Cavs win in 5, maybe 6 just to get that 'ship on their home court.

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