Is Chris Bosh taking shots at LeBron James, or simply telling the truth. After admitting that he hasn’t spoken with James since LeBron returned to Cleveland, Bosh is now offer Kevin Love advice.
During his conversation with Ethan Skolnick of Bleacher Report, Bosh stated that playing with James will probably be extremely frustrating for Kevin Love.
“Yeah, it’s a lot more difficult taking a step back, because you’re used to doing something a certain way and getting looks a certain way,” Bosh told Bleacher Report recently. “And then it’s like, well, no, for the benefit of the team, you have to get it here.
“So even if you do like the left block, the volume of the left block is going to be different. Now you have to make those moves count. So with me, it was like a chess game. I’m doing this move and thinking about the next move and trying to stay five moves ahead. You’re not getting it as much. If you got one or two a game, it’s a lot different.”
You don’t get your pick of the buffet.“Exactly,” Bosh said. “You just get your entree and that’s it. It’s like, wait a minute, I need my appetizer and my dessert and my drink, what are you doing? And my bread basket. What is going on? I’m hungry! It’s a lot different. But if you can get through it, good things can happen. But it never gets easy. Even up until my last year of doing it, it never gets easier.”
“It’s going to be very difficult for him,” Bosh said of Love’s new task. “Even if I was in his corner and I was able to tell him what to expect and what to do, it still doesn’t make any difference. You still have to go through things, you still have to figure out things on your own. It’s extremely difficult and extremely frustrating. He’s going to have to deal with that.”
Bosh and Love are the only two players in the last eight-years to have averaged 23 points and 10 rebounds per game in a season.
That streak is likely to end for Love playing alongside James and Kyrie Irving. I’m sure Love will have no problem sacrificing his statistics, for some playoff wins.
