My take on “The Decision”
Why isn’t anyone talking about how stupid this is. Who cares about Cleveland, their fans or their owner. Cleveland sucked before Lebron (minus a few good Mark Price years) an they will suck after Lebron.
This is stupid because it doesn’t really make sense. Lebron in Miami? 3 players does not a team make. The “Big Three” in Boston became the “The Big Four + amazing bench + coach” and still couldn’t get past the lakers.
Only person I feel worse for than any mark price fan is Byron Scott. Seriously, that dude is fucked.
If Miami doesn’t average 112 PTs a game next year they won’t win and lebrons hour long special will prove how far from being “the king” lebron truly is.
Name anyone on the Miami bench who is capable of scoring 10 points and grabing 8 rebounds during an NBA finals series?
Better yet, who are the other 2 players starting for Miami.
Better still, who is their sixth man? You know the one that leads the offense in the middle of the second and third quarters (a la Odom)
Maybe the idea of NOT being the center of attention suits lebron just fine. The biggest notSuperstar ever.
Miami just sold out every home game through 2012. (not technically possible, but can u imagine what courtside seats will coat for game 7 of the 2011 eastern conference finals?)
IF, lebron wins a ring he has done nothing to improve his spot in history as one of the greatest.
Comparing this to the Bird, McHale and Parish years is despicable. The celtics of the 80’s had:
- bench, bench and more bench
- history, history and more history (you don’t think that helps win championships? Think again)
- Eric Spoelstra vs. K.C. Jones (take ur pick)
Do the matchup with the current NBA Champions:
- Lebron vs. Kobe - toss up but you have to give the edge to Kobe since he has 5 rings
- Dwayne vs. Farmar/Fisher/Blake - together they need to focus on defense but scoring edge goes to wade obviously
- Bosh vs. Gasol/Bynum/Odom - scorng wise Bosh and Gasol are equal. Add youth of Bynum (should he remain healthy) and championship experience of Gasol and it’s clear that the Lakers have the edge
- ??? vs. Artest
- Spolestra vs. Jackson - really?? Really? He had trouble coaching one superstar let alone three. Jackson took two of the beat players in the league and not only made them win he made them build respect for each other. Jackson is to coaching as dahli lama is to Buddhism.
- ??? vs. Bench - farmar, vujacik, Walton all have won 2 championships.
At best what lebron has done can only be compared to what the Denver nuggets did when they acquired iverson. And they had one of the best coaches in NBA history.