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I have no problems with him deferring when another player is having a hot shooting game, but sometimes LeBron gets in passive mode even when his teammates are shooting poorly from the field.

I don't want to read too much into it, but his recent statement about Durant was very telling. It's like he's basically saying, "Now that you'll likely be out for two months, I'm not going to play at my best and will play in passive mode until you return. I really don't think he'll try hard enough to win his fifth MVP award.
 
Bandwagoner305 said:
I have no problems with him deferring when another player is having a hot shooting game, but sometimes LeBron gets in passive mode even when his teammates are shooting poorly from the field.

I don't want to read too much into it, but his recent statement about Durant was very telling. It's like he's basically saying, "Now that you'll likely be out for two months, I'm not going to play at my best and will play in passive mode until you return. I really don't think he'll try hard enough to win his fifth MVP award.
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How do you even come up with this.
 
The Edge said:
Congrats to LBJ and wife, his daughter, Zhuri Nova was born last night at 8:16 in Akron City Hospital.
Mother, daughter and The King are all doing well from what I hear.
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Born on the 23rd hehe :chuckle:
 
I don't understand this passive label he gets. Why?

He's not passive, at all. He's just a very smart, maybe the smartest basketball player I've ever seen. Okay, he's at least as smart as Jordan and Bird, those two definitely had very high basketball IQ's.

He can dominate without scoring, and he's always had the mentality of being a great teammate.

He and Tim Duncan are the very rare superstars we've ever seen, that's not obsessed with always needing to score the basketball.

LeBron is in the mindset of always letting everyone else eat first, and then eating last. He knows he can turn on an extra gear anytime needed.

His first objective is to make sure Kyrie, Kevin, Dion, Andy, etc, are all feeling comfortable and ready to go first.

Don't you love that about him?
 
godfather said:
I don't understand this passive label he gets. Why?

He's not passive, at all. He's just a very smart, maybe the smartest basketball player I've ever seen. Okay, he's at least as smart as Jordan and Bird, those two definitely had very high basketball IQ's.

He can dominate without scoring, and he's always had the mentality of being a great teammate.

He and Tim Duncan are the very rare superstars we've ever seen, that's not obsessed with always needing to score the basketball.

LeBron is in the mindset of always letting everyone else eat first, and then eating last. He knows he can turn on an extra gear anytime needed.

His first objective is to make sure Kyrie, Kevin, Dion, Andy, etc, are all feeling comfortable and ready to go first.

Don't you love that about him?
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Because that has never been what people consider "aggressive."

Aggressiveness has always meant shooting. It's supposed to show he is trying to win by bringing them back himself. It is exactly the same issue where people are called soft instead of smart for not getting in fights. If a superstar gets in a fight, he gets ejected and suspended for the next game.

LeBron is seen as passive because he came into the league right after MJ and the MJ clone that is Kobe. Both those guys had three-peats before LeBron came into the league as a shoot-first, assassin mentality shooting guard. As a result, people believed that is how a superstar should perform in order to win championships. LeBron came in, played the team game, didn't win and got crucified for not being more like MJ and Kobe.

Now that LeBron has won twice, people are starting to rip Durant for not being more like LeBron and as a result his assist totals have gone up. For the record, MJ was constantly vilified in the 80s for not playing a team game because people were used to how the Lakers, Celtics and Pistons won. He wasn't revered until he started winning.
 
bobcat22 said:
Because that has never been what people consider "aggressive."

Aggressiveness has always meant shooting. It's supposed to show he is trying to win by bringing them back himself. It is exactly the same issue where people are called soft instead of smart for not getting in fights. If a superstar gets in a fight, he gets ejected and suspended for the next game.

LeBron is seen as passive because he came into the league right after MJ and the MJ clone that is Kobe. Both those guys had three-peats before LeBron came into the league as a shoot-first, assassin mentality shooting guard. As a result, people believed that is how a superstar should perform in order to win championships. LeBron came in, played the team game, didn't win and got crucified for not being more like MJ and Kobe.

Now that LeBron has won twice, people are starting to rip Durant for not being more like LeBron and as a result his assist totals have gone up. For the record, MJ was constantly vilified in the 80s for not playing a team game because people were used to how the Lakers, Celtics and Pistons won. He wasn't revered until he started winning.
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Yeah, I get what you mean. Everyone has dumb expectations on what a superstar is supposed to be like. He was crucified early in his career for not being more like Kobe and MJ.

But LeBron is clearly his own player. He's not Kobe, he's not MJ.

His greatest strength, of all, is making everyone on the floor better. That's something he does better than both MJ and Kobe. I'm not saying that he's necessarily better than those guys (I do think he's better than Kobe ever was).

But people like LB will always be the target. He's really good, so you have a lot of naysayers that want to bring him down. They want to look for any blemish and crucify him for it.

MJ definitely had it, but it's quickly forgotten.

I always admired that he tries to be who he is, and doesn't try to be a clone of someone else.

That's what makes him standout as a player. I don't care if he doesn't have the mentality to always score the basketball, he impacts the game is so many different ways.
 
Right now considering his preseason performance, I would rank him 4 behind Irving, Love, and Andy. Dion is right there at 5 nipping at his heels. I will update these rankings as the season goes on.
 
CavsSimmy said:
My little sister just begged me for an LBJ jersey after seeing this:

View: https://twitter.com/GlennMooreCLE/status/525305106732818432


And on another note:

View: https://twitter.com/GlennMooreCLE/status/525302029380374530
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Taylor Swift rocking a Cleveland jersey... i know LeBron but... I seen it all now. Well I guess we are not the mistake by the lake anymore because one man decided to come home. How quickly things change... Will our city be bigger than we ever thought soon. Is Cleveland for real on the rise. Never ever thought I would see the day. Mind blown.
 
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