IT has been pretty well contained all 3 years in the playoffs. With the exception of a few explosive games, he's been reasonably held in check.
It's Kyrie that's gonna be doin the torching.
To be fair, it was easy to keep him in check because those Cs teams didn't have a legit No. 2 scorer.
it wasn't so much his offense that was kept in check as the opposing team having their PG pick on IT in the post and just plain go over him for passes and shots. That's where he becomes a liability. Love what IT did for the C's but I suspect he's going to be a liability for Cleveland on the court just like he was for the C's and that's pretty much regardless of who Cleveland faces.
Where can they hide IT against Washington (Wall/Beal), Toronto (Lowry/Derozan), C's (Kyrie/Jaylen), Philly (Simmons/Reddick), Detroit (AB/Jackson), Bucks (Bledsoe/Brogdon), Charlotte (Kemba/Lamb), Orlando (Fournier/Payton), Indiana (Oladipo/Collison), Miami (Tragic/Waiters)?
Every team they could meet in the playoffs has a great-to-solid backcourt pairing that no matter which one IT tries to cover, can just feast on his defense. It's not like IT doesn't try, but there's only so much he can do when giving up that much height --> offers no block potential nor any real resistance to passes over his head.