LoPo
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I said Rudy had a good series. I said Rudy played well. I also said that Donovan was our star in that series, which he was, and you just have to insist that Rudy was also a star which he was not.I asked Lopo if he had any reason, any evidence whatsoever to justify why he believed that Gobert was a defensive superstar all regular season, to the point where with him we were a top 1 defense and without him a bottom 4 defense, and why that suddenly wasn't the case against OKC in the playoffs when OKC's paint scoring mysteriously died and their top 10 offense fell to bottom 3 against us.
He dodged the question.
OKC lost complete cohesion in that series for a number of reasons - Rudy, we had better defenders back then, Melo not passing, Russ not passing, PG choking at times.
Rudy is a damn good player, and better now than he was then, but he wasn't a star in the OKC series win. You can twist the regular season stats all you want, but facts are facts.