This guy averaged 30 pts, 7 boards, & almost 9 Asts
say you score 100 pts. and all his assists go for 2 pts ....he accounted for nearly 50% of the offense.....he was the Cleveland Cavs offense....he also averaged 1 Offensive Reb a game 1 blk and 1.5 stls....so basically he caused at least 3 extra possessions for his team....
next highest scorer Antawn Jamison with 16 pts....next highest Ast total Mo Williams with 5....Lebron was the 2nd best rebounder on tha team behind Jamison....Shaq is the only with a higher Blk total and he avg more Stls than anyone on the team.....so yeah C- players and aging stars....
One of the biggest myth surrounding Lebron is that he is a team player because he racks up tons of assists. Of course you are going to get a lot of assists if you dominate the ball for 18 seconds each possession and then kick it to an open shooter. The list of extremely selfish players who got a lot of assists is long. He never learned how to really play team ball so that the sum of the parts is bigger than the whole, and this is entirely his fault. Kobe has the reputation of a selfish player, but the reality is that all the things he does with the ball and off the ball really open scoring opportunities for the other guys on the team, and this really matters in crucial situations. Gasol FG% has gone up by 7% since he joined the Lakers. Coincidence? Jamison was averaging 20pts 10rbds before he joined the Cavs. And they had size in Shaq, Big Z and Varejao, a number of other very good role players, a very deep bench, a defensive-minded coach who actually made them be a premier defensive team. What else do you want?
getting it done in tha regular season and getting it done in tha playoffs are two different things.....you can see over his career that he basically melts in the playoffs every year....he doesnt know how to win and he doesnt have the killer instinct to be able to make it happen on his own....he needs another player to do that for him....so he may have quit or he may have completely melted down in the playoffs.....no one knows but him....
That's precisely the point. He wasn't up to the occasion. But if you can not rise to the occasion and lead a team to a championship, you do not call yourself The King, you do not get a The Chosen 1 tattoo on your back, and you announce your decision to leave the way every other player does it, not with a months-long circus culminating with a 1 hour special on national TV where you totally humiliate your home state and the people that loved you.
and shannon brown was buried on tha bobcats bench too....you tellin me that was a group of all stars??
I am telling you that Kobe was able to do it with a lot less than Lebron, with essentially no bench and on a bad knee and broken finger. While Lebron quit when he had a perfectly good chance to win it.