If this were a year ago & Lebron passes up a game winner...

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Sometimes open players are open for a reason. Hitting the open man is not alwyas the right decision. To say so is ludicrous.

this is how I felt about the Udonis Haslem pass off.


Haslem was open because he was shooting like 20% from that range last season.

It wasnt a good basketball play, especially if you are Lebron James who is the best player in the league.
 

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:wtf:

There are far too many guards with broke ass Js for me to believe this. And passing to a player who shoots between 25% and 30% from 3 is absolutely, positively, and simply NOT a better play than the best player in the NBA going to the basket or creating a relatively open, closer J for himself.

Not every end-of-game pass Bron has made has been the result of a fukking quadruple team. That's some disgusting ass revision for a player who is so good he doesn't need that kind of propaganda. Bron made plenty of passive, bytch ass, counterintuitive decisions in late-game situations over the years, and I have nothing invested in criticizing the homie. I don't do the stan thing for any player unless I'm joking about Derek Jeter or being sincere about Don Mattingly, Charles Barkley (the player not the announcer), and Dan Marino.

This would be like me seeing a thread after Kobe hit an open 10 footer at the buzzer that said "and people said he has questionable shot selection over the years. Well this proves otherwise!"

:aicmon:

No but they'd be the open man because LeBron was at least double-teamed. :yeshrug: And my point stands - I'd rather have an open shot than a shot over a double team.

If my team were to lose, I'd rather lose on a good shot than lose on a bad shot. Some people would rather lose with their best player taking the shot (any shot) than lose with a lesser player or a roleplayer taking the big shot.
 

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So we gonna act like Haslem havent been hitting those mid range jumpers for years?!?!

:stopitslime:

and you are acting like Haslem wasnt shooting 20% from that range last year which is why the Jazz left him open.


Its not a good basketball play passing to a guy who has shown he cant hit that shot. Lebron was doing that sometimes.
 

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well also it seems more like a strategy then anything.. he took the first lay up and tied the game on the second one, everyone thought he was having seconds and tried to defend his shot....



it was brilliant.
 

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Simply untrue. Unfathomably untrue. Part of basketball IQ and passing is putting the ball not just in an open man's hands, but in the hands of an open man who is in the best position to be effective. LeBron is one of the greatest players of all time, but I'll be damned if I'm going to pretend this nikka never made a bytch ass decision and that he always passed to open men because 3 players draped on him. That's complete and utter revisionist spin, and I'd say that it's amazing what a ring can do for the spin in both directions.

Sometimes open players are open for a reason. Hitting the open man is not alwyas the right decision. To say so is ludicrous.

I never said he never made a bytch ass decision, like that all star game. :scusthov:

I think the other times had to do with who was set up as spot shooters. I'll still take kicking the ball out to a wide open shooter than shooting one on three.
 

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passing to a nikka like haslem SHOULD get you crucified that's equivalent to KD passing to fukking thabo in the clutch
 

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Part of the problem I had with Lebron in late game situations was that he wasn't aggressive in a lot of situations and seemed like he wasn't even looking to score. When teams played him 1-on-1 it seemed to throw him off and he'd end up with a bad shot because he always seemed to be pass first in late game situations.
 
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and you are acting like Haslem wasnt shooting 20% from that range last year which is why the Jazz left him open.


Its not a good basketball play passing to a guy who has shown he cant hit that shot. Lebron was doing that sometimes.

smh Haslem did shoot terrible that whole year but that game was pretty fukkin early in the season if i do recall correctly, so your point is invalid. You'd have to look at Haslem's % only in the games before that one.

And like the other dude said Haslem been hitting that shot consistently for YEARS :yeshrug:

edit: nevermind it was halfway through the season :ld:
 

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:heh: at nikkas totally going off topic and making this into breakdown of Haslem's J and a comparison of Ray's jumper to Larry Hughes and others. :comeon: at nikkas tryna make into an issue of who he was passing to. The nikka has taken heat for passing to Wade before. The point is that now that the nikka has a ring many of the same things that were spun into negatives before will be spun into positives.
 
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