Now that it’s over, with the Cleveland Cavaliers overcoming a 3-1 games deficit to win Game 7 in the NBA Finals, what does our 20-20, after-the-fact vision tell us?

Lots of things we did not believe just a week ago.

To wit:

–Stephen Curry was the unanimous regular-season MVP, but LeBron James remains the league’s best player. That new-sheriff-in-town rep Curry built up in most of two MVP seasons was atomized by LeBron. In the Finals, Curry wasn’t even his team’s best player; that was Draymond Green.

–Size still matters, as all the old-school guys (hello, Charles Barkley) kept saying while turning up their noses at the Warriors’ record 73 regular-season victories. As the series wore on, the Cavaliers bullied the Warriors away from their favored shooting spots. And the beast that is LeBron kept taking the ball to the basket and, at the other end, blocking key shots.

–If not for injuries to Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love in last year’s Finals, Cleveland might have just won its second NBA title — and ended the city’s streak of “no major sports championships” at 51 years, sted 52. LeBron and What Was Left took the Warriors to six games in the Finals last season, remember, and led 2-1.

–We still love to see big guys cry tears of joy. LeBron tonight, Jeff “Happy Dude” Blatnick at the 1984 Olympics, etc.

–It’s hard, still, to win a championship when your game is based on outside shooting. Even with Curry, the greatest outside shooter in the history of the league, the man who destroyed the record for three-pointers this season (402 made, on 50.4 percent accuracy). In the final 4:39 of Game 7, the Warriors missed all nine of their shots, including four three-point attempts by Curry, who was 4-of-14 from distance. Oh, for a big guard who could take the ball to the basket against a physical team of a game that ened 93-89.

–The Warriors were a little too soft for a strong and physical opponents, as Barkley had been saying all season. The Oklahoma City Thunder, who were bigger and stronger, should have ousted them in the Western Conference finals, squandering a 3-1 lead. Shorter, lighter guys have trouble defending larger men.

–Experience clearly is overrated, for coaches, if you have the right player or two on your team. Phil Jackson’s coaching IQ skyrocketed when he had Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippin (and then Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant). Tyronn Liu had never been in charge of an NBA team until the halfway point of the season … and there he is, a budding genius — with LeBron James on his team.

–The Warriors’ 73 victories, a 24-0 start, not losing successive games throughout the season … interesting stats that will forever be set off by “who failed to win the championship”. I wrote last month that setting that wins record will be remembered longer than any one NBA title … but now I am reconsidering.

–LeBron James just may have had the greatest NBA Finals in this century. He averaged nearly a triple-double — 29.7 points per game, 11.3 rebounds, 8.9 assists. He also led the Finals in minutes played (41.7 per game), blocks (2.3) and steals (2.6). He took this series by the neck in Game 5 and would not let the Warriors up for air.

–The Warriors have work to do if they want to hammer home the argument, often made now, that spacing the floor and finding guys who can rain-in threes is the future of the NBA. Certainly, the three is a bigger deal than it was, but to the extent the Warriors embrace it? Is it too precise a strategy? Is it at risk against physically strong opponents?

–If LeBron stays in Cleveland, could he win this again next season? He would be 32, and his two-year Cavs contract is up. Given the state of the Eastern Conference, which is the Cavs and Everyone Else, they could be back in the final series, certainly. They certainly seem a better bet to be back than the Warriors, who have powerful opponents in the West.

–Becoming the first NBA team to blow a 3-1 series lead in the Finals … is going to be like gum on the shoes of the Warriors. How did that get away? Two of the three they then lost were on their home court. The third saw them go the last 4:39 without scoring, in a four-point game.

Anyway, yes, what a difference a week makes. From “Curry as King” and Warriors as perhaps the greatest team ever assembled” … to “LeBron is still the man, and the Warriors are not yet in the same class as the great Celtics, Lakers, Heat teams.”