If he passes to a wide open Melo we aren't even talking about this right now. He was double teamed way beyond the 3 pt line.
Stop defending him. Everyone thought he should've taken the shot after the miss by Deron. He didn't take it because he didn't have the balls to do it and turned it over. Simple as that.
Unfortunate it is. Something so silly as the All-Star game and he'll have to hear about clutchness(or lack thereof). Turrible! Houston, you're on the clock!
lebron with the crazy shooting performance in the 2nd half. amazing finish for such a lackluster game. kobe the best closer in the game gets blocked on his last 2 shots and misses a free throw. lebron has to take that 3 to win the game instead of throwing that pass (you're on fire from 3 and can win the game at the buzzer! edit: like others mentioned, you could see kobe after the pass and on the inbounds seeming to ask why lebron didn't shoot it, of course if lebron doesn't like to shoot enough, kobe forcing shots into dwade blocks when durant is on fire was just as bad). wade drops the fastbreak pass for the easy layup. durant throws the pass straight to deron williams for a layup that cut it to 1. no one really stepped up as much as the game just ended. at least lebron actually likes to play hard in all-star games. the last 2 years he's been the only reason the east even tried to come back both times. he and wade with a couple of hard fouls on kobe and durant seemed to set the comeback tone. durant hit some big shots under good defense in the 4th quarter and actually seemed to play hard as well with kobe. on the final play, i will never understand why they draw up plays where a right handed player runs to the left corner and has to spin against his shooting hand fading out of bounds with a defender draped on him. i have almost never seen anyone even get off a decent shot, much less make one. it's so stupid and yet teams do it all the time.
I think people, including myself, find it disappointing that the best player on the floor dominating and bringing his team back wouldn't want to finish the business. Obviously passing to Melo is an option, but he should have shot it at least once. Don't know what Thibs was thinking NOT drawing the play for Lebron.
Yea, this game signifies lebron's game reallyy. He may very well be the best player in the NBA. He has a complete game and it showed htrouhgout the game, but what he is missing is some mental make up and cojones, and it showed at the end of the game nad in the ifnals. So he is the best player in the league, but his mental make up doesn't allow him to be the greatest player in the league if you can understand the difference.
Very funny that Kobe choked badly. KD disappeared and deferred the whole 4th quarter. But it'll be all Lebron. But that's expected for being so good tonight.
Maybe Thibs did it on purpose to mess with his mind. Since they are now playoff rivals, he'd want to shame LerBon as much as he can.
He probably figured that LBJ would get all the attention. He has so many capable closers on the team. The play was well designed, a great shooter in Deron was wide open, he just missed the shot.
