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BBallFreak wrote:Except you keep repeating the same mantra. Saying it once and moving on shows a lack of agenda. Continuing to repeat over and over again to anyone who will listen indicates bias. You either need to take a stand one way or the other, or move on.
MisterWestside wrote:Waiting for the "Is Kevin Durant protecting his FG%?" thread to be made here.
bledredwine wrote:Except he's obviously not. Lebron obviously is. It's weird and a bit annoying.
Tim_Hardawayy wrote:LeBron just shot an 18 foot jumper with 20 on the shot clock in a blowout. Now he's clearly reversed, instead of protecting his FG% he's statpadding. This guy just doesn't play the game the right way.
MKG35 wrote:BBallFreak wrote:Again...this little competition between Wade and James has been going on for years. Three straight Finals appearances and back to back championships suggest it's not harming anything...
Look how close they were to losing to SA.
If they won only 1 out of 3 finals, would you have said something else? People would probably blame someone for losing. Wade not stepping up, Bosh not stepping up, Lebron not doing ....random somehing.... enough etc.
Rasho_libre wrote:I have never seen another player in my life purposely miss triple doubles this much. Every other player in the league is so aware when they are close to a triple double. Yeah but this guys is all about stats right?
Kurosawa0 wrote:Rasho_libre wrote:I have never seen another player in my life purposely miss triple doubles this much. Every other player in the league is so aware when they are close to a triple double. Yeah but this guys is all about stats right?
Bingo. He's had so many games with something like 30 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists even going back to his Cleveland days. I think they said tonight was his 100th near triple double.
Antrim wrote:Tim_Hardawayy wrote:LeBron just shot an 18 foot jumper with 20 on the shot clock in a blowout. Now he's clearly reversed, instead of protecting his FG% he's statpadding. This guy just doesn't play the game the right way.
He also kept on giving his teammates wide open 3 point looks in order to get assists, I suppose. His selfishness has no limits.
Rasho_libre wrote:I have never seen another player in my life purposely miss triple doubles this much. Every other player in the league is so aware when they are close to a triple double. Yeah but this guys is all about stats right?
Lakerfan17 wrote:Rasho_libre wrote:I have never seen another player in my life purposely miss triple doubles this much. Every other player in the league is so aware when they are close to a triple double. Yeah but this guys is all about stats right?
You must have missed that 52 point triple double he tried to get in NY a few years back and the NBA had to take away a rebound because it was blatant LeBron tried to force his own miss to get a board to get the triple double.
fatal9 wrote:Honestly, it's not hating. He clearly passes up shots that don't yield a high percentage for him, which sounds like a good thing, but someone still has to take those shots. Not every possession (especially in the half court) is going to yield a 50+FG% shot opportunity. When you get a good look in the half court, it's often a bad play to pass it, it can put other players in short clock situations to create a shot. Only pass a good look if you're certain you can get a better one. He mainly does it against bad teams though, because the Heat are so much better than those teams and LeBron can get basically anything he wants against them.
It probably doesn't hurt the Heat to make an issue about it, but the obsession with FG% is kind of annoying to me. Most of the greatest offensive superstars to ever play are good enough where they can control their FG% with the kind of shots they take (especially against bad teams). The point isn't to play in a way to maximize your own FG%, it's to get your team the best shot given the clock situation and how the defense is positioned, and sometimes that means star players have to take shots that they might only make 40% of the time. There's a reason all that historic shooting stuff disappears in the playoffs, even for LeBron.
fatal9 wrote:It probably doesn't hurt the Heat to make an issue about it, but the obsession with FG% is kind of annoying to me. Most of the greatest offensive superstars to ever play are good enough where they can control their FG% with the kind of shots they take (especially against bad teams). The point isn't to play in a way to maximize your own FG%, it's to get your team the best shot given the clock situation and how the defense is positioned, and sometimes that means star players have to take shots that they might only make 40% of the time. There's a reason all that historic shooting stuff disappears in the playoffs, even for LeBron.
fatal9 wrote:Honestly, it's not hating. He clearly passes up shots that don't yield a high percentage for him, which sounds like a good thing, but someone still has to take those shots. Not every possession (especially in the half court) is going to yield a 50+FG% shot opportunity. When you get a good look in the half court, it's often a bad play to pass it, it can put other players in short clock situations to create a shot. Only pass a good look if you're certain you can get a better one. He mainly does it against bad teams though, because the Heat are so much better than those teams and LeBron can get basically anything he wants against them.
It probably doesn't hurt the Heat to make an issue about it, but the obsession with FG% is kind of annoying to me. Most of the greatest offensive superstars to ever play are good enough where they can control their FG% with the kind of shots they take (especially against bad teams). The point isn't to play in a way to maximize your own FG%, it's to get your team the best shot given the clock situation and how the defense is positioned, and sometimes that means star players have to take shots that they might only make 40% or 45% of the time. There's a reason all that historic shooting stuff disappears in the playoffs, even for LeBron.
Lakerfan17 wrote:You must have missed that 52 point triple double he tried to get in NY a few years back and the NBA had to take away a rebound because it was blatant LeBron tried to force his own miss to get a board to get the triple double.
fatal9 wrote:Honestly, it's not hating. He clearly passes up shots that don't yield a high percentage for him, which sounds like a good thing, but someone still has to take those shots. Not every possession (especially in the half court) is going to yield a 50+FG% shot opportunity. When you get a good look in the half court, it's often a bad play to pass it, it can put other players in short clock situations to create a shot. Only pass a good look if you're certain you can get a better one. He mainly does it against bad teams though, because the Heat are so much better than those teams and LeBron can get basically anything he wants against them.
It probably doesn't hurt the Heat to make an issue about it, but the obsession with FG% is kind of annoying to me. Most of the greatest offensive superstars to ever play are good enough where they can control their FG% with the kind of shots they take (especially against bad teams). The point isn't to play in a way to maximize your own FG%, it's to get your team the best shot given the clock situation and how the defense is positioned, and sometimes that means star players have to take shots that they might only make 40% or 45% of the time. There's a reason all that historic shooting stuff disappears in the playoffs, even for LeBron.