My goodness, I just watched a couple of minutes of highlights of Golden State at Boston. Kyrie Irving is unguardable. I have never seen a quicker player. Derrick Rose in his prime? Maybe so, I can't picture D-Rose in my mind now to do a comparison, it has been so long. And Golden State has some athletes now! They couldn't guard Irving. He is so much quicker, he can juke them to get a wee bit of separation for a shot or drive to the basket. And his array of shots--and ability to hit them--...he's unguardable. He has range and he has this little one handed jump push shot where he puts his left side to the defender and shoots with his right hand, creating just a little space where the defender cannot get close enough to block the shot without fouling. If he drove squared up, face to face with the defender he'd get his shot blocked and he's so slight of build he'd get knocked into the first row.

Derrick Rose was too quick for his body and his body told him so. Kyrie had a similar injury in the playoffs LeBron's first year. Physically and psychologically Rose never got the quickness of his MVP year back but Kyrie can not have lost any quickness from his injury, that would be physically impossible. Irving is just a phenomenal player. If his body holds out he's unstoppable.