Now Lebron decides to show up. Sometimes you don't know what goes on in the head of Lebron. He scores so easy every time yet he takes himself out of games purposely by trying to get his teammates involved.
The Spurs have Miami's trapping defense figured out. They are using Miami's over-aggressiveness on pick-n-roll defense to turn the rest of the court into 4-on-3 offense. The "trapped" ball handler always has a release valve in the face of pressure. Either he gives it up to the big at the foul line (Diaw, Duncan, or Splitter who are each good to great interior passers) or a supporting wing player up top who drives hard to the basket, forcing the Miami defense to start rotating. Its beautiful to watch. On the other end the Spurs aren't over-rotating out to Miami shooters after giving up penetration. The only Heat ball handler that can finish at the rim is LeBron. Everyone else gets stuffed under the rim where they don't have good passing lanes out to 'shooters' (I use this term loosely because aside from Ray all they are doing is tossing up bricks). The Miami 'shooters' are just standing out above the arc instead of moving around. D Wade is doing a decent job cutting when a ball handler is trapped under the basket but since he has no lift, the best he can hope for is a bail-out whistle. When Wade camps outside the Spurs defense is doing a great job of staying balanced on the closeout and not letting him blow by or pump-fake his way into the paint. Miami desperately needs backcourt help. The only offense working for them is iso-LeBron at this point.
Get Norris Cole and Allen in the game. Cole/Allen/James/Bosh/Birdman is the best lineup Miami has for defending and scoring against the Spurs. Wade is done. Chalmers won't be in the NBA in 5 years.
lmfao. Does it seem LeBron tends to have some type of excuse to fall back on if he loses? Oh cramps. Oh he's sick before the game. Get over it.
The offense for Miami was bad in the first half but it was their complete inability to stop San Antonio is the real issue for Miami right now. San Antonio is getting great looks on every possession. When they miss... its just a miss, they aren't really getting forced into doing anything they don't want to. LeBron is the least of Miami's issues. Wade being useless and Bosh being just a spot up shooter is killing their offense.
The media is the one digging and giving him excuses. LeBron hasn't said anything. Cramps BTW are legit so... He's human, come on man.
