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We'll agree to (vehemently) disagree. Boston didn't have a superstar (in my strong opinion - Brown and Tatum are elite stars, not superstars), and Luka is a superstar. A healthy Luka could have (and in my opinion, notwithstanding the defensive stoutness of Brown, Tatum, Holiday, and White, would have) taken over that series. Kyrie shitting the bed absolutely didn't help - most of all, I think that in itself led to Luka giving up. If Kyrie had played to his usual standards, I strongly believe gimpy Luka and our defenders would have at least made it a far more competitive series rather than something of a gentleman's sweep.

Your opinion, and you're entitled to it. I beg to differ, however. Luka IS a superstar, no question. But superstars can't beat good to great teams by themselves. The Joker is a superstar. What happened to him in the playoffs? Boston won without a healthy Porzingis too, because the sum of their parts was greater than the whole. He was phenomenal one game, and they got nothing from him the rest of the series. We can go back and forth all day. I love Dallas as a team and can't wait to see how their new pieces fit in, but it's going to be a lot tougher this year getting back to the promised land. Boston is the team everyone is chasing.