Lebron...YES or NO...should he have passed the ball? I think he made the right choice but ESPN makes it look as if he choked...Marshall hits the three and Labron has a 10-10- 10- night..
Lebron has a record of being a poor clutch shooter. Donyell is a pretty good shooter so I dont think it was a bad decision at all.
you are the go to guy and you pass the ball when you are in the paint... 1) he could have gotten fouled 2) his chances are much better from the paint than the 3 pointer ( look at any sats for as long as basketball has been around ) 3) it doesnt say " we will witness" in the marshall comercial... cmon he is the KING the go to guy and he wa sin the paint...but i can surely also understand a pass
he would have taken and off balanced forced shot at best....he drew the double and kicked it out to their best trey shooter.....now if he had taken the shot and missed....I bet everyone from ESP would highlight the "wide open shooters" he missed....One thing though....Coaching???? where was a screen for him to use? a pick? something???
id rather he take the shot in the paint upside down and perhaps draw a foul than a dish to marshall for a low probability shot...if he missed he takes full blame just like when he makes it he says he is the leader of the team...sorry but he should have taken that shot...
They hadn't sent him to the line ALL nite...not a single free throw....NO WAY would they have called a foul in that situation short of murder...but we agree to disagree.
and i dont think marshal made one trey all night...but ill look at the stats..besides the foul is just the byproduct of him doing what he had to do..take it strong to the hoop... nope...1 attempt no trey..guess which that one attempt was?
Everyone wanting to be "the man" and every other tnt or espn analyst talking about who's the man is the reason we no longer win international titles. The teams that kick our behinds overseas play a team game.
LeBron had an open look, he should have taken it, and drawn a foul. LeBron doesn't have the killer instinct yet, and I don't know if he gets it. A guy that good should have taken over in the 4th quarter. MJ, Bird, Kobe, Magic, Barkley, etc. could all take over a game in the 4th quarter, will their team to victory. I don't see that quality yet in LeBron. He is also not confident in his free throws yet. He nearly always looks a bit confused and tentative in crunch time at the end of the game. I flat out can't imagine such an open look that those I mentioned at LeBron's age would not have gone to the hole. LeBron is never going to win a championship with a point guard mentality on a team like Cleveland. He has to dominate the game if they have any chance.
He's 22....When bird was 22...he was still at Indiana State...MJ was still at NC and didn't;t win until his 6th year in the league...Barkley? Tell me about how many times he played in a conference final and won? once...when he was 32....Kobe?...its a hell of a lot easier to take that winning drive when you have perhaps the greatest center of all time ( shaq) on one side and Big shot Bob lining up for a three away from the ball....how many big shots and victories does he have since Shaq left? Now Magic is a different story...He won NCAA at 19 and an NBA crown at 20..although he did have the benefit of playing with (imo) the greatest center/player of all time in Kareem..Lebron is closer to Magic then the other guys....he's a point forward..but geez he's 22...he's got so much to learn...