LLLLLeBron 3-5 Finals Record Without SuperTeam

2004 Kobe could use a lot of excuses too ... but he just said Detroit was the better team ...

 

I thought if the Warriors won LEBRONSPN would be somewhat tolerable. It's all about LeBron and how he had no help, how he should've won Finals MVP. How about giving Golden State some credit?

 

ESPN has a new article asking if Lebron underachieved in his career in terms of rings. Article starts off as Lebron has as many losses as Bird, Kobe, Jordan combined and then goes on to give the usual excuse after excuse after excuse. Can't link it now, but it's pathetic.

Picked up another interesting point reading the comments to the article.....

Why isn't AI lauded as the GOAT. He took a piss poor Sixers squad to the Finals AND stole a game from one of the most dominant squads in the playoffs EVER.

Winners win period, losers always have the he did this, BUT.......

 

wow, so what career opportunities do you see for Stein after this horrible, totally overboard and unjustified hate on the one and only?

 

Sounds like Blatt is gone unless Bron wants a punching bag and to continue to run the team by himself. I'm not that high on Blatt, but he did just get his team tu the finals and deserves better.

The fact that Blatt erased a play then drew up another because Bron was shaking his head on the bench is ridiculous. Stand up for yourself and make the self entitled baby respect you. You're probably gone either way.

I think the only upgrade who Bron would respect is Mark Jackson.

 

Poor Bronnie Give him a trio of Pop, P Jax and coach K please.

 

Oh please, LBJ ...... fire Blatt and hire Tyron freaking Lue to be your coach next year. He's got that "it" and gravitas that a king like you will listen to ALL season long next year. Oh please ..... "just do it".

LeBron James defied David Blatt as blatantly as ever during the NBA Finals
By Jesus Gomez  @JejeGomez_PtR on Jun 18, 2015, 3:21p 48


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LeBron James had one of the best performances in NBA Finals history despite the Cavaliers' ultimate loss. He carried a shorthanded team to six games on sheer talent and will alone.

Behind the scenes, however, he was ignoring and at times disrespecting coach David Blatt as much as ever, according to ESPN's Marc Stein.

"There was LeBron, in one instance I witnessed from right behind the bench, shaking his head vociferously in protest after one play Blatt drew up in the third quarter of Game 5, amounting to the loudest nonverbal scolding you could imagine," Stein wrote. "Which forced Blatt, in front of his whole team, to wipe the board clean and draw up something else."

It's not the first report of James not acknowledging Blatt. Early in the season, rumors emerged that James was the one calling the plays. He actually acknowledged that he changed an end-of-game play call after his game-winner against the Bulls.

The relationship has not been good at any point, but tension reached its peak in the final series, with Stein saying James consulted with assistant coach Tyronn Lue instead of Blatt and called timeouts and plays on his own.

Normally, not having the respect of a star player -- never mind one as influential as LeBron James is in Cleveland --would be a death sentence for a coach. That might not be the case for Blatt, simply because James is happy with having someone to "kick around," according to ESPN's Brian Windhorst:

"I think, at the end of the day, LeBron likes the freedom. He likes having Blatt to kick around, something he couldn't get away with with other coaches in the past," Windhorst said on SVP and Russilo. "I think LeBron is OK with him going forward. If David Blatt is OK with taking the abuse from the star player, which he does, David Blatt will be back. I think it'll be Blatt's decision more than anybody else at this point."

Reports of James' non-relationship with Blatt have been emerging all season, to the point where they have become impossible to shrug away as exaggeration. The Cavaliers made the Finals, so Blatt's job should be safe, in theory.

If things are as bad as they seem to be, though, it wouldn't be surprising to see a change in the offseason.

http://www.sbnation.com/2015/6/18/8807447/lebron-james-disrepected-david-blatt-finals-cavaliers

 

Blatt shouldn't have cowered, but I don't think he could've used the media. Phil was a master manipulator in that way. The media has never had a year round hard on for any athlete the way the worship Bron. That would've backfired and they'd be calling for his head for taking the almighty out of the game.

 

As far as I could tell, Blatt had the Cavs playing nearly perfect defense. The cavs defense wasn't their issue, it was the fact that Lebron dominated the ball so hard, it was hard for them to score. And I don't recall Lebron getting any sort of rest during the finals, which I'm sure was Lebron's decision.