Game 6 Post Game ECF Series Tying 3-3 Thread

[imchillin]

This made me happy to see last night

RT @stephenasmith: 8:36 left in 3rd. Boston pulls w/in 60-48. Miami TO! LeBron is screaming at coaches to get him the ball as he walks to bench. Damn Right!


After the Boston run, he hit a big 3 to put us up 13, hit his chest and said "I got this"

[HeatStorm3]

This made me happy to see last night

RT @stephenasmith: 8:36 left in 3rd. Boston pulls w/in 60-48. Miami TO! LeBron is screaming at coaches to get him the ball as he walks to bench. Damn Right!


After the Boston run, he hit a big 3 to put us up 13, hit his chest and said "I got this"

Here's to hoping he "got this" 5 more times!

[ecnirp]

That's okay we only need a further 5 or max 8 games like that this season.

This...

As someone posted in another thread. He can be Triple Double LeBron in the regular season. He needs to be Killer LeBron in the playoffs.

[Nanogeek]

Because he doesn't ''show up'' every night? Lol. People think you can put on legendary games just by ''wanting'' to do it. That's hilarious.

You don't understand. LeBron can put on a legendary game every night. He has that capability. He just needs the competitive killer instinct to do it. We saw that last night.

He's done it before. And it wasn't because he can only produce legendary results every now and then - its solely a product of him having that killer instinct.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmH0ot-KtSw[/youtube]

That was against the best defense in the league. Eventually, everyone knew he was going to take the shot and he just played 1 on 5 ball and beat them.

The LeBron we normally see is without the killer instinct but his capability level is so high that LeBron can still amaze. But EVERY night LeBron comes with the killer instinct he had last night he will produce legendary games - he will redefine what is legendary.

[Kate Upton]

Lebron will be Lebron .We just need D.Wade and Bosh to show up for this to be an absolute blowout at home. Leggo!

[WD]

Celtics new mission: Derail LeBron early

They must derail James before he gets started on Saturday night, lest James become the locomotive he was at the TD Garden on Thursday.

Simply put, James and the Heat are frontrunners. They have been since their overhyped creation. Once the Heat get you down, they can beat you into submission. But if any club can withstand Miami's early assaults and put Miami into situation where the Heat must execute under the pressure that can only come in the final minutes, the entire equation changes.

LeBron James is a basketball bully, folks, which does not diminish his talent. Mike Tyson intimidated opponents with his raw power, too. Tiger Woods has never won a major tournament in which he has failed to hold at least a share of the lead entering the final round. All of three of those men are regarded among the greats in their profession, though James remains the only one without a professional championship.

Come Saturday night, based on the pattern of this series, the pace of this blueprint for this game seems clear. James will come out like gangbusters in the first quarter, as he has essentially done in all six games, and the Celtics must withstand it. They must either stand in James way or answer on the other end of the floor, staying within striking distance. The Celtics were underdogs in this series from the start, remember, and the goal always has been to be right there with Miami and James at the end, with a chance to win.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports

[WD]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/802 ... ces-caring
By Bill Simmons on June 8, 2012

You know what happened by now. LeBron strolled out with a creepy look on his face, a relaxed, detached expression that said … well … we didn't know. Was he pissed off? Had he checked out? Had he finally turned on his teammates? He was barely interacting with them, lost in his own little world, like he was wearing headphones we couldn't see. He was definitely playing hard, but you couldn't interpret what the overall vibe meant. Was this like a Dwight Howard thing? Like, "I'm here to do my job, and I'm going to try hard, just know that I'm here because I have to be?" Had the pressure finally broken him? Was he feuding with Wade? What was his agenda?

And then … the shots started going in. Swish. Swish. Swish. It's like Miami realized, "Oh yeah, the Celtics don't have anyone who can guard LeBron James," and more important, LeBron realized it. He stopped worrying about sharing the ball, getting teammates involved, swinging it to the open man, being liked. Maybe LeBron said to himself, "**** it, I'm playing all 48 minutes, I'm scoring at least 50 points, and if we still blow this game, nobody can blame me." Maybe he said, "Wade already has a ring, it's time to get mine." Maybe someone (Wade?) said to him, "Enough with this me-then-you-then-me crap, it's your team, hog the ball, do your thing and take us home." Maybe Game 5's embarrassing defeat, as well as the humiliating "Good Job, Good Effort" kid and 36 hours of "Should they break up the Heat?" stories pissed him off. Maybe Worldwide Wes gave him an awesome pregame speech along the lines of the chef from Vision Quest.

I don't know what happened. I just know the shots wouldn't stop going in. After about the fifth dagger in a row (he made 10 straight), the crowd started groaning on every make — shades of Philly's Andrew Toney ripping our hearts out 30 years ago. If you've ever been in the building for one of those games, you know there isn't a deadlier sound. He single-handedly murdered one of the giddiest Celtics crowds I can remember. Thirty points in the first half. Thirty! All with that blank look on his face. It was like watching surveillance video of a serial killer coldly dismembering a body and sticking the parts in the fridge. Only we were right there.

You can't imagine what this was like to witness in person. I know Michael Jordan had similarly astonishing games, and others, too, but not with stakes like that. This wasn't just an elimination game. This was LeBron James's entire career being put on trial … and it only took an hour for him to tell the jury, "Go home. I'm one of the best players ever. Stop picking me apart. Stop talking about the things I can't do. Stop holding me to standards that have never been applied to any other NBA player. Stop blaming me for an admittedly dumb decision I never should have made. Stop saying I'm weak. Stop saying that I don't want to win. Stop. Just … stop."

As a Celtics fan, I was devastated. As a basketball fan, I appreciated the performance for what it was. One of the greatest players ever was playing one of his greatest games ever. He swallowed up every other relevant story line. Needless to say, the Celtics couldn't match him — especially Pierce, who's worn down from four weeks of battling Andre Iguodala, Shane Battier and LeBron on one leg and appears to be running on fumes of his fumes' fumes at this point. The fans were so shell-shocked that many (including me and my father) filed out with three minutes remaining, not because we were lousy fans, not to beat the traffic, but because we didn't want to be there anymore. We wanted to get away from LeBron. He ruined what should have been a magical night. We never really had a chance to cheer, swing the game, rally our guys, anything. He pointed a remote control at us and pressed "MUTE." It was like being in a car accident. LeBron James ran over 18,000 people.

[GreenHat]

This is a simple game. We have to get good looks on offense and make them take difficult shots on D. Last night we had no Defensive breakdowns. Don't let them score at the rim and don't bail them out on O.

No defensive breakdowns last night?

We weren't getting significantly better shots than them yesterday, our 3s were just falling (for everyone other than Miller) and Lebron was hitting almost literally every jumper while fading in every direction.

I'm hoping we get much better looks in game 7 and don't have to rely on Lebron having one of the best games ever played just to almost get 100 points.

Defense was good but was aided by them missing jumpers (especially 3s) and blowing layups.

Combine all that and we win easily but we can't count on all that every game.

[GreenHat]

If this Lebron showed up every night the Heat would:

break the single season record for wins
Win 3 championships in a row at least
Lebron would average 35/10/5

Lebron is the greatest athlete ever to play the game. What he is lacked until last night was the competitive edge of a MJ, a Kobe, etc. He had that edge last night... in a way we've never seen before. He needs to keep that edge. Because if he does then he is unstoppable.

All of his jumpers were falling last night that was the big difference from his other still amazing games.

"Competitive edge" somehow makes all of your jumpers go in?

Why does Kobe shoot so inefficiently if he according to you has "it"?

[DefenseWins]

Our defense actually did have breakdowns.

Rondo was dancing in the paint... I was surprised he didn't go for 40 as well.

Celtic's missed wide open shots as well.

Celtics tried passing the ball when they got near the hoop, but we made it difficult for them. If they passed it out to an open 3 instead of trying to go for a lay up, the game might have been even closer...

UD has been very good for us when it comes to rebounding. He has sucked defensively. Thank god Bosh is back. UD is better at PF big time, not Center.

[arsenic]

UD has been getting WORKED by KG at times. I'd really like to see Bosh in the starting lineup.

[insfo]

Why people still put this clown on the air is a mystery to me.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zciP-Wvqd_Q[/youtube]

Lebron just shut that clown up.

Wow .. it sure takes a lot to make Skip sound sane and SAS just managed that with ease with his diatribe!

[GetMoney]

If this Lebron showed up every night the Heat would:

break the single season record for wins
Win 3 championships in a row at least
Lebron would average 35/10/5

Lebron is the greatest athlete ever to play the game. What he is lacked until last night was the competitive edge of a MJ, a Kobe, etc. He had that edge last night... in a way we've never seen before. He needs to keep that edge. Because if he does then he is unstoppable.

All of his jumpers were falling last night that was the big difference from his other still amazing games.

"Competitive edge" somehow makes all of your jumpers go in?

Why does Kobe shoot so inefficiently if he according to you has "it"?

lol exactly
it's all nonsense

the ultimate truth is this; everything the doubters say about lebron is only because he doesnt have a ring - and everyone that has a ring is exempt from everything they hold over lebron's head

i'm sure pierce has this mythical competitive edge everyone speaks of, so why was it there in GM5 then not there in GM6

he has a ring (1 single ring), so no one would ever say he doesnt have the competitive edge

[LeMVP]

Because he doesn't ''show up'' every night? Lol. People think you can put on legendary games just by ''wanting'' to do it. That's hilarious.

You don't understand. LeBron can put on a legendary game every night. He has that capability. He just needs the competitive killer instinct to do it. We saw that last night.

He's done it before. And it wasn't because he can only produce legendary results every now and then - its solely a product of him having that killer instinct.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmH0ot-KtSw[/youtube]

That was against the best defense in the league. Eventually, everyone knew he was going to take the shot and he just played 1 on 5 ball and beat them.

The LeBron we normally see is without the killer instinct but his capability level is so high that LeBron can still amaze. But EVERY night LeBron comes with the killer instinct he had last night he will produce legendary games - he will redefine what is legendary.

LeBron had a one in 50 years game. That's not a ''killer instinct'' thing. People who fail to understand this fail at understanding the basics of basketball.

[starvinmarvin17]

is there anyone in the league more consistent the lebron. You do know thunder won because the had harden step up one night westbrick another and durant the others. Kobe won because he stepped up a couple of times, gasoft another and metta in game 7. No one player besides maybe jordan can step up each and every night. Lebron usualy does, sometimes he doesn't. That is when wade neeed to eb wade and bosh needs to be bosh.