JN61 wrote:therealozzykhan wrote:it's crazy he's not even known as a scorer. Guys like Curry/KD/Kobe and many others were known "scorers" ahead of LBJ, yet he is about to be #1.
That is just a lazy media narrative. Everyone who actually follows basketball knows LeBron always wants his 25 points.
I think it's an overplayed narrative but there is an element of truth to it. I don't think that LeBron typically forces his individual offense in the way that some other known 'scorers' have done in the past, such as Kobe or Iverson or even Jordan. They focused primarily on scoring with everything else, such as playmaking, clearly of lower priority.
LeBron has been more balanced in that regard and I think his twilight years are showing that if he'd chosen to focus more attention on scoring, as others have, then he could have scored a lot more points than he did. The ease with which he scores 30 points a night these days, despite a considerable loss of athleticism, is really quite extraordinary. It makes you wonder what the 2009 version of LeBron would do under the same circumstances.