Al Horford: “Game 7 (2018 ECF), 4 minutes to go in the 4th. I’m looking at Smart, Jaylen, Tatum, Terry, myself…we’re gassed. I’m looking at the other side, LeBron is just leaning on the scorers table very casual. He’s played every single minute, and looked unfazed. It was disturbing.”
by WhenItsHalfPastFive
@National Basketball Association
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LeBron put fear in all of Boston in that game 7
Say what you want about LeBron lately with injuries(he is also way older its common)but for years he was just a beast, so many minutes and he rarely looked out of breathe. When he retires the league just won’t be the same.
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I was also disturbed
2018 Playoff Lebron is my favorite
The fastbreak and-1 to bury the Celtics in this game, and the roar after: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EMSuTZzROE
LeBron is a different. Respect.
One of my favorite LeBron games.
That’s the GOAT. If the GSW didn’t stack their roster with KD and Curry, LeBron would have a three-peat carrying those Cavs team.
That 2018 LeBron was built different
LeBron literally soloed that series he averaged 34 ppg and the next Cavs player was at 12 ppg
That was one of the most demoralizing games beside game 4 of the finals last year. LeBron look like he wasn’t tired, then for some reason the team freezing Tatum out late in the fourth. I always looked back on that season as a big “What if”, I do think if Kyrie was healthy we could maybe went to the finals, but then again that team was inexperienced outside of Horford.
“Since that encounter, my life has never known peace.”
LeBron owns Al unfortunately. He gave us the business so many times smh him and Dwight single handedly wrecked an entire era of our franchise
Ever since 2010, lebron has totally dominated Boston. He definitely had the psychological edge versus the franchise by the time 2018 rolled around
Players aren’t scared of Lebron. /s
Can we please stop doing the thing where we add quotation marks to paraphrased statements?
The quote in the title is NOT what Horford said. It’s similar and has the same gist, but why write it as a quote if it’s definitively not a quote?
Bron also played all 82 that season – his first and only time doing so
I think he realized it was probably his last season in Cleveland and man did he put on a fuckin show lol
Anyone remember when he blocked a dunk and then just stared down the Celtics to the other end of the court like the Undertaker?
You better trust Horford frustration because he had the “pleasure” to face Lebron 5 times in playoffs:
2009 – Cavs vs Hawks, 4-0
2015 – Cavs vs Hawks, 4-0
2016 – Cavs vs Hawks, 4-0
2017 – Cavs vs Celtics, 4-1
2018 – Cavs vs Celtics, 4-3
Jesus..
that 2018 playoff run was ridiculous, probably the most one man show finals run i’ve ever seen since iverson maybe
LeBron was so much more fun to watch on the Cavs
Lol I bet it was. 2018 seems like not even long ago, goddamn time flies.
“No one is afraid of him”
-Mario “Lyin Ass” Chalmers
Lol yet they say players don’t fear this man 😂
Conditioning is the single most important thing for players to train. All of the great players who had long careers had good conditioning (ie: Lebron, Kareem, Wilt, Curry).
I have a vivid memory of Lebron scoring the dagger layup with one of the Morris twins hanging on his back lol
2018, 2016, 2007 Playoff Bron is on its own tier.
Honestly – I say this as someone who watched most Cavs games, and being born and living in Akron I’m obviously as big a Lebron fanboy as they come — Lebron by then had mastered the art of knowing when to cruise and when to turn the gas on. You can’t go 100% for 48 minutes, and he didn’t even go 100% for 40 minutes. This isn’t me throwing shade, he’s hardly the only person to do it, he just had mostly perfected it. I remember a sequence where he blocked Rozier on a chasedown block, the ball went to Jeff Green, and Green led a fast break the other way. Lebron didn’t even bother following. That was him getting a few moments of extra rest.
I’m reminded of Game 7 in 2016. Everyone was gassed, that’s why the offense was just so terrible in the last 5 minutes. But he had conserved just enough to turn on the gas when he judged the right moment to use it for The Block.
He looked unfazed because he’d been in this situation many times before.
2018 is the version of LeBron I’ve wanted him to be his entire career.
A more willing shooter and aggressiveness to find buckets. It’s one of the years I felt he dug deep into his bag to showcase his ability to score in various ways.
Granted he deterred less to his team because it was one of his weaker cast but nonetheless, it was my first time truly in awe of watching him play.
Mario Chalmers can kiss my ass, the whole Celtics team, heck the whole east was terrified of him that playoff run.
2018 LeBron was at his apex. It’s still embarrassing that they gave harden the MVP over him