HIF wrote:whoooosh
you missed the point.
I said Davis was the best player on the court.
You said it's not a surprise because he's played well for 8 games.
It should be a surprise. Lebron should be the best player on the court.
He wasn't. Bron has to re-find his snazz because he hasn't had it for some time.
The 61 point game was a sign of how he's playing lately. No team work, no trust. And since then he hasn't been good enough to win on his own. If he needs to ball some players out then do it but I think he needs a mental adjustment. Get back to leading with some defense and keeping the trust flowing. Feeding the hot hand and not settling for jumpers.
He's no MVP at the moment and he'll need to be come the playoffs.
A baffling analysis, since that's the exact OPPOSITE of how Lebron's played the last 3ish weeks. He's been far too passive, not looking for his own shot or looking to penetrate and create easy shots for his teammates - he's been content to stand around and let others make plays. Why this is, is probably a combination of factors (fatigue, back spasms and other minor injuries, cold streak with jumper, etc.) but it's definitely not because he's been playing selfish ball.
And expecting Lebron to be the best player on the floor every single night of the season is ridiculous, especially when you're playing against a guy with a 27 PER. Nobody in the history of the game ever has, or ever will be the best player in all 82 games of a regular season. Lebron probably should've been more aggressive looking for his own shot last night, but the bigger problem, by far, was the team's defense.
I think most of you are completely overreacting to this recent stretch. It was only 3 weeks ago that the Heat finished up a stretch winning 11 of 12 and looked easily like the best team in the league. All great teams (with EXTREMELY few exceptions, like the '96 Bulls or '67 Sixers) go through slumps and bad stretches, ESPECIALLY the Miami Heat of the last 4 seasons. They've gone through similarly terrible stretches before and came out looking just fine - in 2011, they lost 7 of 11 in March and ended up just fine (they lost the Finals of course, but that was for other reasons). The problem has been compounded this season because of the constant, unending lineup changes - Wade's constantly in and out, Battier has been benched, Oden's now a starter, the Michael Beasley saga, etc. etc. Not to say that they haven't had erratic lineups before this season, but it's been much worse this year. This is a problem that will cease to exist in the playoffs.
