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Originally Posted by pgardn
Damn it.
Its not the overall shooting %
In close def. battles like the Spurs and Cavs
its the last minutes of each quarter, especially the 4th.
Oberto absolutely destroyed the Cavs in the last few
minutes with layups in many of those games because Duncan
always draws doubles and such. Ginobili stretches
the D, Duncan draws the D in. Leaving gaps.
Do you think Oberto will help the Cavs?
Where did the easy shots come from on the Cavs?
Gooden cant do what Oberto did? Big I cant do that?
Lebron dribbles around out front and then just charges the
basket. His sense of spacing is just not there yet. Actually
his sense of spacing is quite bad but he can get away with
it because he is so good. He needs time to learn.
And he badly needs a PG.
I am enjoying this.
Keep em coming,
at least you watch the games.
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It was the NBA finals...easy shots weren't easy to come by for anybody...especially cleveland. You can fool yourself into thinking it is all James fault for his spacing whatever. Fine...Oberto destroyed the Cavs because of all Duncan and ginobili do to defenses which excuses their poor shooting performances. I think you are employing the exaggeration game to the extreme right there. The Spurs won the series because of Tony Parker...end of story. Again if you think his spacing is so bad, you don't watch them that much. Basically the Cavs were playing great D on duncan and Ginoblili just as the Spurs were on James. As I said James did deal out 18 assists those two games. Something must have been spaced at some point. The Spurs were NOT doubling James that much...they were in essence making him take the outside shot...as you said that is not his strength...when he makes them he has games like game 5 against Detroit in the east finals and this week against Portland and LA. When he doesn't hit them you get the NBA finals last year. I saw game 3 of the finals...they got open look after open look from 3 point range and went 3 for 19. If Gibson shoots like he did in game 6 agaisnt Detroit or game 1 of the finals they win by 15 that game.
HE was not at his best that series I know...but give your own team some credit for that. You really expected cleveland to go out and score 110 every game?? The Spurs played great in game 2...but believe me other than that game scoring was no easy task for them that whole series either...(despite the plethora of easy Oberto baskets LOL!!..by the way...Gooden took TWICE as many shots as Oberto the last two games...my guess is his makes were easy looks. ). Parker put the whole team on his back is my assessment of that series.
LeBron certainly understands spacing however. LIke it or not their best chance to score is when James has the ball in his hands. They are the 3rd worst shooting team in the league this year and are 5 games above .500. James is shooting 48 percent taking the most shots on the team...the remainder of the team shoots a combined 42 percent. They are not the 3rd worst shooting team in the league because of him.
YEs, you are correct he can get better. His free throw shooting is troubling, but his outside shot is not as bad as some make it out to be. He makes more than his share. I still stand by my statement however that despite the fact he can get better he is already the best player in the game...and I really don't think it's that close.