NBA At the Half

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Originally Posted by pgardn

You have watched him play against inferior teams.
I have watched him take absolutely horrific
shots in crunch time and have them go in and draw air.
I watch him try the same thing against good teams
and fail miserably.

Good players and good teams make easy baskets
in crunch time. Get wide open looks or layups.
How many easy baskets did he get against the
Spurs in the last part of the game during the Championship?
How many easy shots did he get the entire series?
Good teams stop opposing teams from doing this
and make it difficult on guys that must have control.

And if you dont think Lebron can improve. You will
never see a ring in Cleveland. Ever.

I don't know...just in the last two weeks I saw him go into San Antonio and make the game winning shot. I saw him go into LA and make game winning shots and free throws. I saw him go into Portland and make game winning shot...and shot after shot after shot down by 11 with 3 minutes left. Are those all inferior teams he was getting game winning shots against?? What do you people watch?? that's not clutch?? Game winning shots two years ago against Wash in the playoffs...twice?? game 5 against Detroit last year?? Where is the not clutch?? I never said he couldn't get better. I simply said he was already the best player in the game. He is not a good free throw shooter at all. That needs to improve without question.

the finals last year was against a team that outmatched them. Although Larry Hughes is not a good player...he is still a starter and a double digit scorer for them...he could not even take the court the last two games. I saw Tim Duncan have horrendous shooting games in the finals last year. I saw Ginobili have some bad games...I saw both have good games also. The key being that they have 3 stars on their team to compensate. Tell me how many stars the Cavs have on their team?? Despite being outmatched, they lost the last two games by a combined 4 points. I saw LeBron take a 3 pointer to tie in game 3 and get fouled quite obviously in plain view. HE couldnt' get easy baskets that series...I dont' think the Spurs were either judging by their lack of impressive point totals excluding game 2.

So you really think every single basket the Spurs make is a layup and easy look in crunch time?? IF scoring in the NBA were so easy every team would shoot 100 percent all the time because they could simply get easy baskets right?

I'm not exactly sure what you're saying here. Perfection in a human basketball player is not attainable which seems to be the standard to which you want this guy to attain. Of course he doesn't succeed every single game and every single moment.

HE doesn't make a team better?? Riddle me this. Before LeBron got to cleveland the franchise had 4 playoff series wins in 35 years of existence. Since LeBron got there they have 4 playoff series wins in the last 2 years. Explain to me how he hasn't made that TEAM better?? And no, I am not buying mr mortimers superb supporting cast theory.