Nobody is saying it's unfair to point out the mistakes. It is unfair for mistakes in the final minutes to cancel out his brilliance. They should both be taken within context. The Heat don't have a chance if it isn't for Lebron to begin with. That shouldn't be forgotten when he makes a mistake, as all players do. If people really expect Lebron to be perfect, then the expectations are grossly unfair (they might already be). And as for the Jordan stuff, the Jordan comparisons are crazy. Lebron will never be Jordan, and it's obvious. However...the hate/criticism towards Lebron is equally crazy.
All true. But GREAT PLAYERS are defined by GREAT MOMENTS. Like MJ's flu game. Magic's baby sky hook. Isiah's sprained ankle game. Hakeem dominating Robinson. Bird's outdueling Dominique. Reggie in the Garden. Its hard to remember anything that LeBron has done at WINNING time that was that outstanding. He actually almost pulled it off tonight and then.....
Very pedestrian first 3 quarters but holy hell, his 4th quarter today reminded me why he was head and shoulders above everyone else in the NBA. LeBron needs to bang down low more often and stop thinking that he's a guard.
Lebron in his younger years also just destroyed Detroit by himself. I'll never forget that moment personally, he just went wild. He was doing so then but then Wade came in, took a turnaround fade away jumper...but they still would not have won this game if it weren't for his 4th qtr performance. Spurs had a 10+ lead and again...they were bringing out the trophy...it looked done with.
Lebron's career isn't anywhere near over first of all and second there are a lot of great players that never had one signature great moment.
Also, as JayGoogle pointed out, Lebron's 25 straight points to win in double OT in Detroit was "GREAT".
Also, why is Lebron's three less than Ray's? They are both HUGE shots, If Lebron's didn't go in then Ray's wouldn't have mattered. That was a HUGE shot and it seems like some are just trying to shrug it off. Ray's is bigger because man the pressure in that one moment of hit it and go to OT or don't and season's over...but Lebron's shot was a huge clutch shot and I think if the Heat go on to blow out the Spurs in game 7 people will remember his 4th quarter performance.
Well no one mentions Tony Parker taking shot after shot (and he's not even a consistent jump shooter) and shooting his team out of the game in OT. One person in the Game thread mentioned it IIRC... Two TOs where he was trying to make something happen and two threes he missed trying to make the shot. If he had passed you know...YOU KNOW people would have called him scared of the moment. You know that. Also, the man had a triple double.
Maybe one day they will make a 30 for 30 about Lebron's game 6 in Boston. Till that day, I'll stick with Reggie vs. Spike as the greater moment.
Maybe they would have. I wouldn't have. I don't dog people for making the correct basketball play. If Lebron had not missed those 2 three pointers and had not turned the ball over twice then yeah...tonights game could have been a signature win for him. Alas...
That's amazing to me. He had two relatively open threes. How was that a bad play? Especially one of the threes he missed he made the next one...that takes some huge balls right there to have the confidence, game on the line, miss a three...get the ball back and then drain the next one. One TO is probably not all his fault as he was passing it to Bosh who didn't go up for it and another was him posting up and the paint just got clogged. Alas had he not turned it on int he 4th quarter the Heat lose. It's that simple really.
The Kobe and Iverson chucking makes you a hero ideal that permeates the modern nba fanbase needs to die. Great players pass to open shooters, Jordan did it, Magic did it, even Bird (whose one of the greatest shooters ever) would do it.
