LABron James Discussion: The Final Year?

Needs to be more aggressive from the start. I am not so mad about those FTs, because that 3pointer was really clutch. But he needs to set the tone, that’s his role. Not Kuzma’s.

 

Mental midget. You can’t miss both free throws if you’re the Kang. Lebron played much better in the second half but we wouldn’t have needed those free throws or OT if he didn’t miss 5 or 6 layups in the first half. What the hell is going on with the missed chippes at the basket? It can’t be that he’s tired, the season has just started and so had the game. He “rests” way too much on defense. If he is going to blame his teammates for his missed assignments all year, my blood is going to boil.

 

More like the YIPS. Ammirite?

 

Before I post these tweets I want everyone to know that Kobe is my guy, but Lebron is a Laker and I'm thankful for that and he's part of the family now which is great. But the irony of all of this is kind of funny

 

Why am I not surprised that there's two pages of hate for the dude who sent us into Overtime in the first place.

Got to make FTs, but for goodness sake. There's a line between holding someone accountable and looking a gift horse in the mouth. Or I suppose we could go back to the last few years where ^^ that stat line was not only a rarity, but something we'd have celebrated as a coming of a new age.

Three games people. It's been three games.

 

Simply put we're not in that game in OT without Lebron hitting that shot and find Kuzma wide open for the 3 before that.

Side note, I'm not concerned by this yet, but its worth paying attention to as we move further into the season:

 

I definitely understand the frustration and he absolutely has to make a damn FT there. All I'm saying is there's a line between "make your FTs LeBron!" and "we got FOUR years of this BS!"

I mean the guy put up damn near a triple double with over 30 points and sent the game into OT. If we're getting that for four more years, we've got a good four years ahead of us. It's the third game of the year, we had two of our most important players suspended, and we still almost beat a pretty good SAS team.

More worrying than anything is our terrible, terrible defense. That certainly is more of a concern than the next four years of LeBron James which look to continue being great. It's both a testament to Laker fans and a hindrance to Laker fans that we see greatness and meet it with a skeptical eye.

 

I’m very concerned about this already. I know we want to play fast, but LeBron has never played this fast. I know we need LeBron to play big minutes to win games, but combining this pace with those minutes is a recipe for something snapping. I’m not saying we need to protect him with bubble wrap, but we have to be smarter than this. We have 4 years of this guy, we don’t need to use him up in year one, especially when we aren’t winning the title as constructed. Now next year, if Kawhi, or Durant come, or a trade is made for Davis, or Lillard or something, sure, go all out, but not now, not yet.

 

I think part of that has to be due to inexperience with each other and definitely the suspensions aren't going to help.

 

you are right. But would Mamba have 14 assists? Would he shoot 50% from the floor? Would he grab close to 10 rebounds? probably not.

Different players, different styles, differen strengths. LeBron has never in his career been good at free throws. Never been terrible but never good either.

Comparing one aspect of their game makes no sense to me since they are so different. With that said...missing both is pretty unacceptable so a great choke effort there by LeBron.