The LeBron James Thread

[ehh]

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My god....

LeBron might as well light himself on fire at this point. This guy is CLUELESS.

Is there any doubt he is the "leader" of the pack that is unhappy with Spo? NO DOUBT AT ALL.

Remember Heat first day of practice LeBron was all "focused?" Now he wants to play and have fun? He wants the coach gone because he got called out for goofing off? What happened to Mr. Focused on first day of practice in front of the cameras LeDouche????

It's never his fault.

I hope people finally jump on the bandwagon that I've been on for 7 years now...this guy is the ultimate non-professional, egotistical, Pete Maravich one man show.

I wouldn't take him on my team if he played for free.

The first few practices were just more smoke & mirrors and empty BS from LeBron. Playing the part (of fiery leader in this case) while the going is good, then become a go-in-the-tank, finger-pointing bitch when the going gets tough.

Once again, this Spo nonsense is just another example of how he thought going to Miami with Bosh and Wade would make everything easy. And once again, now that it's nowhere near as easy as he expected, the excuses and finger-pointing are in full force.

As for this whole Spo fiasco, what in the **** does this team thing will happen with the next coach, Riles or not. Do they think if they're under-achieving and playing .500 ball that the coach will let them laugh and goof around in practice? What ever happened to professionalism and hard work? I get that the NBA is a long, grueling season but it's plain as day to tell that LeBron does not care one iota about winning a damn thing.

[Bornindamecca]

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Wade is trying to warn them that if Riley takes over, they will learn the meaning of "tough coach." Wade desperately does not want Riles to take over, and he won a chip with him. He wants it to work under Spo because he knows Riley is bringing the wrath down on them.

Spo can't give them jumpshots. Spo can't grow a rebounder/interior defender in his labratory. He can't infect Arroyo with the R-virus and turn him into Rondo. This team does not have the talent to outplay everyone, but they do have the talent to outwork them and outrun them. Problem is both Lebron and Wade are used to scoring enough that they are allowed to coast. When they made this big 3, they forgot the Garnett.

[ehh]

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When they made this big 3, they forgot the Garnett.

And they also forgot to get either perimeter star with some off-ball ability. Ray Ray is an all-timer off-ball and Pierce is certainly no slouch.

But as I posted above, I agree about Riles.

[King_B_Mack]

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They pretty much told us exactly how things were going to go over the summer I realize. They talked about how now they didn't have to score 25-30 ppg because someone else would be there. What we didn't catch onto at the time was the fact that they all would be thinking the same thing and try to all not play that well at the same time. No one wants to do any work on this team, it was all about going to a team where they can kick they're heels up while someone else does all the work.

[Subversion]

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I get that the NBA is a long, grueling season but it's plain as day to tell that LeBron does not care one iota about winning a damn thing.

No he does not care at all, he wanted to freeload off of other superstars to be his "Royal Chariot" and carry him to a championship without him putting in any effort.

The numbers Lebron makes each night comes from being more athletic than anyone else on the court. It doesn't come out of necessity.

[ehh]

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They pretty much told us exactly how things were going to go over the summer I realize. They talked about how now they didn't have to score 25-30 ppg because someone else would be there. What we didn't catch onto at the time was the fact that they all would be thinking the same thing and try to all not play that well at the same time. No one wants to do any work on this team, it was all about going to a team where they can kick they're heels up while someone else does all the work.

Yup, that's what more and more articles are saying tonight. Leadership from the coach position is NOT the problem, there's a complete void of player leadership because everyone is afraid to step on each other's toes.

I think almost everyone expected Wade to be the man and it be his team and him have the cojones and tell Bosh, LBJ & Co what is what but that's clearly not the case which is a bit puzzling to me.

[BaselineBakes]

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Lebron's twitter earlier today

RT @DickieV: @KingJames u must not try to satisfy teammates- play in attack mode like as a Cav.U r to talented but r very p#!@%*#ive- Be the KING!

Thank you Vitale! Lebron needs to be aggressive he's the best player on this team, what he does opens everything up. LeIso works, it's been working for years.

[ZB9]

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Heat only need to go 63-1 the rest of the way to beat the Bulls W/L record and meet some folks' preseason predictions...

[OSUFan_88]

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Lebron's twitter earlier today



Thank you Vitale! Lebron needs to be aggressive he's the best player on this team, what he does opens everything up. LeIso works, it's been working for years.

Define works.

[The 24th Letter]

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If one players supposed incompetence to is making you look this stagnant, your not doing a good job of coaching....dont really see how its not obvious that this MIA offense has no direction....well I do, but im just saying lol

[iAM-IncReDiBLe-]

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No matter how good your coaching is, if one guy whos a very big part of the team doesn't respect you an refuses to change how he plays then what else can you do?

[The 24th Letter]

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Well Bron and Spo met before the game tonight...but let me guess...ESPN is only accurate when its anti-LeBron news?

[King_B_Mack]

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Well Bron and Spo met before the game tonight...but let me guess...ESPN is only accurate when its anti-LeBron news?

Really? Really? So they meet and everything is alllllll good and it's time to call people out on ESPN being accurate only if it's Anti-LeBaby? Cause one meeting after all of this crap certainly means it's smooth sailing from here on out.

EDIT: Let's also make sure to ignore the fact that pretty much everything that's come out of LeBron's mouth in the last five months or so at least has been a steaming, rancid pile of horse poop with this. Kinda like wanting to play all 48 minutes to 44 being too many. Having no issues with Mike Brown and so on and so on.

[The 24th Letter]

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Really? Really? So they meet and everything is alllllll good and it's time to call people out on ESPN being accurate only if it's Anti-LeBaby? Cause one meeting after all of this crap certainly means it's smooth sailing from here on out.

EDIT: Let's also make sure to ignore the fact that pretty much everything that's come out of LeBron's mouth in the last five months or so at least has been a steaming, rancid pile of horse poop with this. Kinda like wanting to play all 48 minutes to 44 being too many. Having no issues with Mike Brown and so on and so on.

Yeah, really, really.

I dont OMG LOL like you did earlier at negative articles....
I dont crown dude a saint at the positive ones.....

I dont pick and choose articles to blow up and downplay based off my LeFeelings on the situation. Yeah I can do that too...

Im just not that butthurt enough about the situation man, sorry...probably makes me the odd man here. Yeah, dudes got an ego, says some questionable, no stupid things...but what I see out there on the floor is bad coaching...I just see that through my basketball minds eye....

EDIT: Not to say its all Spo, but it looks as if they are out there freestyling man...lol

[BaselineBakes]

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Define works.

2 MVPS, playoff success, one of the most efficient players in the nba scoring wise.

Yeah they lost in the playoffs but it wasn't to scrub teams. I think with Lebron aggressive it's a game changer, aggressive isolation Lebron works.