Victor Oladipo reflects on the 7 Game Eastern Conference playoff series between The Indiana Pacers and LeBron James and The Cleveland Cavaliers. He also discusses what he learned from Bron and The Cavs and how he feels about that one block (or goal tend?)
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I was at that game 2
Lebron had 21 in first qtr
Pacers beat Cavs that year. They would’ve made it to the finals
He averaged 28.8 but it did feel like 45
Edit: Checked the wrong stat site. Real answer below
2018 LeBron James is the greatest basketball player to ever touch a court. He was INCREDIBLE that season & the team around him was awful. I'm a Cavs fan and I would've rather we kept all the guys we started the season with, regardless of how we were performing 40 games in. I think we still could've gotten in and those guys had experience and were better built for the playoffs
LeBron ruled the East
LeBron 2018 is on another level, it's like his prime has reached it's peak.
I think anyone here can agree than it was a blessing to be able to watch Bron in the playoff series that year. Will never see anything like that again .
i’ve been going to church with him since he was on the magic
that was a goaltend but they shouldn't even have had the possession anyways.. the previous play the ball went out of bounds and they gave it to pacers even tho it should have been Cavs ball.. so 2 bad calls at the end of the game
That 1:39–1:42 lol sounded from a phone or something
This Bron > Miami Bron
🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑 goat king
He averaged 45?
I remember watching that replay so many times to see if it was really a block and even in slow mo I couldn't tell because of the angle the cameras caught it in. Sometimes I see it and it looks like a goaltend because the ball hit the glass and other times it looks like Victor did a finger roll and the ball didn't actually hit the glass. Either way that was a great sequence to watch and LeBron hit that 3 which would've won them the game either way. Great series
Sitting Vic at that time in the game when he was HOT and Bron was out for that ENTIRE 9-0 run was the dumbest decision ever. I remember screaming at my TV about that 😂
At this point JJ, you gotta Bron on here 🤷🏾♂️
That was a crazy matchup and it proved Victor, when healthy, could lose to a team in the playoffs👏👏👏
2018 Bron is the greatest season individually of all time.
That series was legendary for Bron and Oladipo but Bron in those playoffs was the scariest thing iv seen in basketball the way he went 7 games putting up numbers like that then turning around and clean sweeping the raptors like he juss had 2 weeks rest was insane
give kyrie to lebron in 2018 they could of won the chip
I'm excited for when JJ brings Bron to the show
I can’t help but get annoyed by KD for joining a already really good warriors team and making them unbeatable at that time. Lebron run was so legendary and he was doing what KD should’ve been trying to do and has never done. That run should’ve been capped off with a ring and I believe he would’ve won had he not gone to the warriors.
2018 playoff Lebron is as good as any version of Jordan.
Lol “game 6 we down 40… I had a triple double” this mfer and his ego
It’s always interesting listening to people who truly played against Bron or been around him talk about his greatness in a series. Then you compare it to people who act like it no big deal. The respect level for players seeing it first hand be different.
I was at that game 7, it was electric in there. Didn’t sit don the whole game! Bron was already my goat but that solidified it for me
Once he came back to Cleveland 2015-2018 the game became more so mental for him. He controlled the entire pace of the game, knew when to take over in certain situations, dissect defenses/plays during the game🤯, & even bringing in particular role players he knew would play good. Draymond Green even called him the smartest player ever & described those finals matchups as Chess matches. That Cleveland Lebron was a Different Monster.
For folk to say Miami LeBron was the best LeBron shows they are casuals. 2nd Cleveland stint LeBron is otherworldly. That playoff run was a masterpiece, on part (if not better) with Jordan for that post season
All the bron suckers out here ready to fight people for somebody that don’t even know them Lebron is the solid baby goat 🐐 😂
LeBron can drop 40 50 or even 60 whenever he felt it in 2018 but chooses to be selfless and give his teammates to shine and be part of the win
the way he mentioned it by the game one series where he started with 51 just shows if they win that first game the series could’ve went a lot different not saying they’d win but they were defeated after losing the way they did the first game
15’-18’ bron the goat
As soon as Victor gets out of Houston he's back on the media radar and 'likeable' again. That Houston media hate is strong boy
Even if it was a goaltend, the play before should have been Cavs ball (it was out of bounds off Thad Young not Bron). So we would not have even gotten to the goaltend point.
I still wonder what OKC would have been with Russ, Kd, Oladipo, and Steven Adams 👀
yes it was a goaltend but no one talks about them fouling lebron the play before and it not being called..in the mean streets we call that even Steven 🤷🏽♂️
When its all said and done the lebron stories gonna be crazy
Block was clean
As a pacers fan having to relive this makes me sad. We should’ve beat the the Cavs that series but.. it’s all good it was 4yrs ago I just know I’ll never forget how great Dipo was for us.
They won't validate it because he didn't win a chip but that 2018 postseason run by Bron is the best I've witnessed live. And I've seen a lot of ball being 42
Earned the name king James that 2nd stint.. Cleveland 2015-2018 maybe the most inspirational basketball I’ve ever seen. It was amazing and I don’t think I’ll be lucky enough to be into a sport/team like I was those lebron lead cavs 🎉