No but they'd be the open man because LeBron was at least double-teamed.
And my point stands - I'd rather have an open shot than a shot over a double team.
LeBron passing to an open but either unprepared or mediocre teammate (both of which happened quite a few times) as soon as the double team gets to him isn't a good play, period. Great players can beat double teams. Double teams certainly didn't begin and end with LeBron James. LeBron makes a lot of smart passes at the end of games, but he also has made his share of poor judgments and whether he's double teamed or not they were not the "right" play.
If my team were to lose, I'd rather lose on a good shot than lose on a bad shot.
An open shot from a player who is either a bad shooter or unprepared to shoot is still a bad shot. And I don't believe LeBron can't create a good shot for himself in some of those situations - he has proven he can over, and over, and over. I don't favor the best player shooting when he has people all over him and he's off balance of fading away (see: Kobe and his attendant mythology), but I also don't think every late game pass (especially when it comes before there's even an attempt at creating a shot or when it goes to a wack shooter) to an open man is a good pass.
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.
True, I went ll the way the fukk off topic, to an entire different universe when I mentioned a late game pass LeBron made to Larry Hughes for a 3, and I have no fukking idea why I brought that up when the topic is actually... Oh, yeah, LeBron and the criticism he has faced for late game passes.
It's pretty damned simple, actually: a pass to an open Ray Allen at any point in any game in any city is universally accepted as an excellent decision. That LeBron was praised for that proves absolutely nothing, nada, zilch, zero about criticism he received in the past, much of which was completely fair and reasonable.
And anyone who was upset with him for passing to Wade - unless contextually it was one of his weir ass passive plays - is probably an idiot. That doesn't mean he doesn't deserve criticism for other decisions. These are very distinctly different instances and I think the comparisons are absolutely shortsighted and intellectually dishonest.
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.
i seen kobe mad about not being able to take the last shot even though he won the game. I thnk fisher shot the game winner but this nicca kobe chewed fisher out for not givin him the ball.
fans.
status yet the "closers" in this league are celebrated for hitting their shots 25-30% of the time in that same situation. The Haslem shot is going to go in more often than the hero shot, it just won't be as exciting when it does.
dish it to kerr during game 6 of the nba finals
fukk outta here.
