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Tornicade said:
James has never tristed his teammates. has never beleived in anyone else but himself. Has no clue to be a leader during adversity.

Also he leans on his talent so heavily. he doesnt follow his assignments. He constantly playing streetball and not team ball and is every bit of a waste of the basketball IQ he has since he does whatever he wants on the court when he wants and doesnt hold him self accountable for anything.

He has an overbearing sense of entitlement
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How do you reconcile the statement "he has never trusted his teammates. He has never believed in anyone else but himself" with the fact that he continually passes to the open man during late minutes in games? His actions actually seem to disprove that claim. I've always had a problem with his "leadership" or how he chooses to lead. He used to give Drew Gooden the business during games, yelling, glaring, finger pointing etc... IMO totally showing him up. He does the same thing to Anthony and Chalmers. Thats never been my idea of the right way to lead.
 
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It is so obvious watching this OKC/San Antonio series that these are the 2 best teams in the league this year. This really is the championship, IMO.
 
jay_em said:
How do you reconcile the statement "he has never trusted his teammates. He has never believed in anyone else but himself" with the fact that he continually passes to the open man during late minutes in games? His actions actually seem to disprove that claim. I've always had a problem with his "leadership" or how he chooses to lead. He used to give Drew Gooden the business during games, yelling, glaring, finger pointing etc... IMO totally showing him up. He does the same thing to Anthony and Chalmers. Thats never been my idea of the right way to lead.
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Theres a difference between passing the ball to an open man and trusting your teammates

Theres been plenty of time lebron has passed off to a guy not because it was the basketball play but to make the guy "prove" himself to lebron.

I never said he didnt share.
 
So OKC will become the first team in the finals to win a road game?
 
jay_em said:
How do you reconcile the statement "he has never trusted his teammates. He has never believed in anyone else but himself" with the fact that he continually passes to the open man during late minutes in games? His actions actually seem to disprove that claim. I've always had a problem with his "leadership" or how he chooses to lead. He used to give Drew Gooden the business during games, yelling, glaring, finger pointing etc... IMO totally showing him up. He does the same thing to Anthony and Chalmers. Thats never been my idea of the right way to lead.
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Because he is a pussy. He doesn't trust his teammates. He defers when the game is on the line so he doesn't have to take the blame.

Tornicade said:
he doesnt follow his assignments. He constantly playing streetball and not team ball
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Jay_em, read this portion of Tornicade's post and then watch the last possession of regulation of Game 4. Tornicade's post fits LBJ to a tee. The left side was cleared out for LeBron to attack... instead he goes right... and is met by every single fucking player of the Celtics. I highly doubt that Spo drew up that play so LeBron could defer to Haslem. That play was definitely drawn so LeBron could go left and attack the rim.

Why do I know this? Because if Spo wanted LeBron to defer to the cleared out left side, he wouldn't have put Haslem there. He would have had a shooter cut across further out where the Boston zone wouldn't have been able to close on him in time. Instead Haslem was there for a relatively close jumper that Boston was easily able to close on him and make it so his shot was heavily contested.

[video=youtube;CfJC_GnBMpo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfJC_GnBMpo&feature=related[/video]
 
If OKC is now really committed to ball movement after seeing how it decimated them against the mavs and two games for the spurs. Then I dont know. Westvrook is playing agressively defensive and sacrificing his poor shot selection. Durant is durant and Ibaka and Perkins are involved in the offense.

Brooks has done a good job to finally get them to listen after 3 years. correction. Poppovich did a good job of making okc listen to brooks.

Overall . I think the spurs will make the adjustments to win this series and Thunder will resort to the normal playstyle when adversity hits.

Next yea though .. I got OKC winning it all
 
OKC appears to have hit another gear... uh oh.
 
cafemerald said:
Because he is a pussy. He doesn't trust his teammates. He defers when the game is on the line so he doesn't have to take the blame.



Jay_em, read this portion of Tornicade's post and then watch the last possession of regulation of Game 4. Tornicade's post fits LBJ to a tee. The left side was cleared out for LeBron to attack... instead he goes right... and is met by every single fucking player of the Celtics. I highly doubt that Spo drew up that play so LeBron could defer to Haslem. That play was definitely drawn so LeBron could go left and attack the rim.

Why do I know this? Because if Spo wanted LeBron to defer to the cleared out left side, he wouldn't have put Haslem there. He would have had a shooter cut across further out where the Boston zone wouldn't have been able to close on him in time. Instead Haslem was there for a relatively close jumper that Boston was easily able to close on him and make it so his shot was heavily contested.

[video=youtube;CfJC_GnBMpo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfJC_GnBMpo&feature=related[/video]
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Not necessarily, if you look the Celtics clear out to the right but KG stays up high to help double team. To me it looks like the play is drawn up for Lebron iso, to go left but Lebron sees the double coming before it happens so he goes right. At that point Haslem goes left for the open shot. Plays are drawn up for multiple out comes depending on how a defense plays. But Lebron is still a pussy and could have beat the double.
 
although its still close. its odd how the spurs comeback has okc going back to their regular playstyle and away from the ball motion. who could of seen that happening.
 
I am fucking sick of watching Nick Collison and Shane Battier taking charges.
 
Wonder what skip bayless is thinking right now...
 
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