LABron James Discussion: The Final Year?

What LBJ is doing at 41 is crazy, but man would I have loved to see a 31 year old LBJ matched up with Luka. The lift, the explosion, the handle; that LBJ makes us a championship team.

This one? Not so much, but he's much older and can still be effective. . All good.

 

LeBron James throws Luka Doncic under the bus after Lakers’ loss to Magic

 

He can't play off-ball.

Now he can't even shoot the three ball.

His defense is pretty cyclical. He either wants to play it when he's motivated or he'll just strut around the court making that dumb face blaming others when it was his defensive assignment.

I love LeBron but the one thing he needed to do this offseason to 'make it work' like he said he could do was to become more like Draymond but with better shooting. He hasn't done that and is the same player.

People will point to his USG% rate but that's pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things because it's the fact that he's just standing around in offense waiting for the ball that makes him a bad fit. It'd be a different story if he was out there battling for offensive rebounds (career low) or knocking down wide open 3's.

If he wants to be the same player he has been his entire career, he should have found a way to get to the Warriors... Lakers would have tried to make it work, IMO, because it was quite obvious by midseason that the fit wasn't the best and then Rich Paul/LeBron being cryptic surely doesn't help.

 

yep. not sure it will go much better in cleveland, either, as they need him to play the same role he's not playing here.

 

It would work for the Warriors. Steph would rather play off-ball, Butler doesn't really care and just wants to win, Draymond would much prefer to just play defense and do the dirty work as well.

He wouldn't be fighting anyone for possessions. If he wants the ball, he'll get it just cause the system would work for it.