You guys making excuses for Lebron last night sound like the Celtics fans who were justifying going to 7th game against a 37-win team.
He played like complete garbage last night. And has Pip said, he was CALLING for high screen pick and roles. Lebron is allowed to deviate from the offensive gameplan if he choses. He just chose to settle.
Mike Brown did not go 2-18, Mike Brown did not commit 10 turnovers, Mike Brown did not get in foul trouble (two of Lebron's fouls were utterly stupid).
Some of you guys are so scared to say anything negative about Lebron....
Seems as though we are the only NBA team in history, with a coach that has absolutely no control, as to how to direct or agree/disagree, with his star player
. Mike Brown seems he clearly has had no offensive responsibilities, for his whole career as an assistant coach. You say this has nothing to do with this? If this is completely true, you can't blame LeBron for this.
Though, remember when LeBron said this last year?
http://point23.blogspot.com/2007/02/lebron-wants-to-run.html
When was the part were he appeased LeBron on his suggestion? That was even before Mike Brown had a Eastern title and on his resume, and his contract extension. So you say, that Mike Brown has absolutely no power as to where on the court LeBron is supposed to receive the ball? So you are saying on game 6 of the Wizards series, it was all coach LeBron's doing with that adjustment? You are giving LeBron too much credit to this team, if he is also our complete offensive coach for this whole team, at age 23.
Of course LeBron had a bad as f*ck game, I think we all realize that, but if you opened your mind, and looked the way Boston was tilting on LeBron on their zone like defense, especially in the 2nd half... You'd realize we needed to make adjustments, that ONLY A REAL COACH, could have made, that would have made this game such an easy as hell win, we wouldn't have cared if LeBron blew that easy layup at the end, it wouldn't have mattered... We should have blown their asses out this game.
LeBron's jump shot was way off, and having him set up as the PG of your team's plays, does not get him in best position to score near the basket. Having Delonte take up the ball, and LeBron screens to the ball, then Delonte runs around below the hoop, the same way every time like its scripted, and sets right in the corner outside the 3pt line, essentially letting LeBron take over PG duties, can't always be LeBron improvisation, it's a fu*king play!
Not to say I always agree on their opinions all the time, but I think the TNT post game guys would've spotted that LeBron was directing his whole fate out there, without a chance of coach intervention, like you seem to imply, since they actually played in the NBA, and Barkley, Webber, were star players of their teams, most of their careers, and that they would recognize something like that and would've pointed that out. Didn't seem the case, they blamed Mike Brown as well. As we know, Barkley doesn't hold back when it comes to criticizing a star player, and he has done so on LeBron, a hell of lot, in past years. Didn't seem so this time.