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[CaneBrain]

Bosh down 0-1 especially after watching that disaster. Role guys with a 9-34, 1-10 from three debacle. Sigh.

[FCP Bob]

San Antonio has won 15 in a row, 28 of 30 and are 43-7 since the end of January.I guess they might be playing well.

[DJ Vu]

And their average margin of victory during the winning streak is something like +15. Crazy good. Soooooo much more fun to watch than whatever is going on in the East. Their ball movement is ridiculous.Alright, let's talk about Lebron. Last three (I think?) possessions were:1. Two missed free throws that could've given them lead.2. Gets the ball, doesn't look to create, just gives it to Battier. Gets it back, gives it up. (This might've been before the free throws; I wasn't watching live, so I was doing a lot of fast-forwarding/rewinding and might have the order messed up.)3. Goes to the corner for the final 3 attempt by Chalmers, but doesn't really try to be available (not that there was any way Chalmers wasn't putting that shot up).I know this is a lot of nit-picking (except the free throws, that was just bad), but given his history with the Heat, he really doesn't seem like he wants to be the hero. I'm not saying he has to take every single shot down the stretch, but too often he isn't even a threat to do anything. He just needs to be more involved.If you're the Heat, I guess the silver lining is that you probably won't shoot that bad next game. But Bosh's absence really clogs things up. And the Pacers were really awful shooting too during long stretches and will also probably be a lot better, especially since they're going home. Right now there is literally no end result to this series that would shock me. Anything from Miami in 5 to Indiana in 5 is on the table.No, I take that back, Indy in 5 would still shock me.Edit: Oh, there was a stat that said Lebron is 58.8% on free throws in the last minute of one-possession games. I'd like to know what the sample size is on that, but that's a little alarming. I'd also like to know what other stars shoot in similar situations.

[DJ Vu]

How different are these two actions?Besides how well Blake sells it I mean.

[DJ Vu]

Or this, which got a one game suspension.

[brvheart]

Did the bottom gif get a suspension? Is that why you asked? Or did he just get ejected?I think it actually very possible that LeBron suffers from some sort of mental health issue, like anxiety disorder.

[DJ Vu]

brvheart, on 16 May 2012 - 08:18 AM, said:

Did the bottom gif get a suspension? Is that why you asked? Or did he just get ejected?I think it actually very possible that LeBron suffers from some sort of mental health issue, like anxiety disorder.

He was suspended two games.I swear to God I made my Lebron post before Zach Lowe posted this.

[brvheart]

DJ Vu, on 16 May 2012 - 08:20 AM, said:

He was suspended two games.

That seems wildly arbitrary. Are they picking suspension length out of a hat?

[DJ Vu]

I don't know, probably.Zach Lowe is ripping me off!Zach Lowe ‏ @ZachLowe_SIHow different was Wade's hit on Collison from Jason Smith's on Blake Griffin, for which NBA suspended Smith 2 games?Note: I ripped off somebody from the basketball forum re: the Wade hit.

[FCP Bob]

I don't see much difference but no way Wade gets suspended eventhough it was obvious that it was intentional because he pissed that a foul wasn't called on the other end.

[DJ Vu]

FCP Bob, on 16 May 2012 - 08:40 AM, said:

I don't see much difference but no way Wade gets suspended eventhough it was obvious that it was intentional because he pissed that a foul wasn't called on the other end.

NBA does nothing. Apparently it wasn't "unnecessary and excessive."

[DJ Vu]

More silly Wade ballyhoo.lol irony

[CaneBrain]

Lebron just scored 16 points in the fourth quarter of Game 1 to lead a comeback win. If the standard is he has to be super-clutch every time he plays, then we are just going to have this conversation a lot for no reason. His free throw shooting has always been a little shaky; they lost a game to the Clippers in January where the same thing happened only Lebron missed like 3 or 4 late freebies.

[DJ Vu]

CaneBrain, on 16 May 2012 - 10:24 AM, said:

If the standard is he has to be super-clutch every time he plays, then we are just going to have this conversation a lot for no reason.

No, the standard is that he has to stay involved. He's the best player in the game and a total nightmare for opposing defenses and the more active he is, the better the Heat will be. I've never crushed Lebron just for missing shots.

[CaneBrain]

DJ Vu, on 16 May 2012 - 10:40 AM, said:

No, the standard is that he has to stay involved. He's the best player in the game and a total nightmare for opposing defenses and the more active he is, the better the Heat will be. I've never crushed Lebron just for missing shots.

He took a couple shots, he grabbed a couple offensive rebounds, he missed two monster free throws, and he passed to Wade late that lead to a lay-up that Wade normally makes. How involved does he have to be? He can't be the focal point of every play when you are asking him to play 44 minutes and guard David West half the time.He already had 2 or 3 excellent fourth quarters in this post-season alone. This narrative has completely spun out of control.

[DJ Vu]

CaneBrain, on 16 May 2012 - 10:48 AM, said:

How involved does he have to be? He can't be the focal point of every play when you are asking him to play 44 minutes and guard David West half the time.

I didn't say he needs to be the focal point of every play throughout the game. The last minute of a one-possession game isn't the spot where you get your rest.Lebron is great. Lebron is amazing. Lebron comes up big in a lot of big moments including 4th quarters. But I still think he's lacking something. I don't think this something necessarily precludes him from winning a title, but I don't think it's helping either.

[Poppy_Hillis]

DJ Vu, on 16 May 2012 - 08:32 AM, said:

Note: I ripped off somebody from the basketball forum re: the Wade hit.

Don't worry about it. If Wade gets suspended I'm taking credit for it, though.

[Poppy_Hillis]

My take on Lebron: Lebron's a frontrunner. When they're up late he's aggressive and killing everyone. When they're down late, he loses all aggressiveness and tightens up.

[DJ Vu]

Gregg Popovich is my favorite anything:“Some of the stuff we do on defense, we actually have one thing we call on the pin downs, we say we’re going to ‘Del Negro it’ and that’s in his honor and we’ve done that for 15 years,” Popovich said. “We have a Del Negro defense out there because he couldn’t play a lick of D. At times we had to invent something just to hide him, so we call it ‘Del Negro’ and you do certain things on the court and everybody has to make up for that guy who’s the ‘Del Negro.’”

[SAM_Hard8]

Wade should have gotten a flagrant 2 but we all know that's not going to happen. Also later Lebron threw a wicked elbow and for that there was a double technical foul. NBA is a joke.