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Offline Lurker

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Re: Who is the best closer in the NBA today?
« Reply #45 on: May 28, 2009, 12:48:52 PM »
Time for King James to show his ability to not be closed on!



Leading your team in scoring, rebounds, assists, FG%, 3PT% and steals isn't enough?   36/9/7 on 52% shooting with almost 2 steals a game.  If James had HALF of the supporting cast that Kobe has then the playoffs would be completely different.

King James has done all he can ... he's going to need someone else to chip in. 


This is the Cav's problem...LBJ can carry a team through the regular season.  But in the playoffs when everything is a little tighter and the opposition is also battled tested; a team dependant on one player tends to fail. 
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Re: Who is the best closer in the NBA today?
« Reply #46 on: May 28, 2009, 01:16:48 PM »
Time for King James to show his ability to not be closed on!



Leading your team in scoring, rebounds, assists, FG%, 3PT% and steals isn't enough?   36/9/7 on 52% shooting with almost 2 steals a game.  If James had HALF of the supporting cast that Kobe has then the playoffs would be completely different.

King James has done all he can ... he's going to need someone else to chip in. 


This is the Cav's problem...LBJ can carry a team through the regular season.  But in the playoffs when everything is a little tighter and the opposition is also battled tested; a team dependant on one player tends to fail. 

You are not taking his comment in the context of the thread.  Lebron was poor in OT in the last game.  He had 4 straight turn overs (two bad passes, one fumble in traffic, and an air ball).  He did hit that awesome 3 in front of the scorers table but they had already put themselves in a really bad spot by then.  Partially due to his turn overs that ended up being dunks on the other end.

Now if you are talking about supporting cast and in general, yea you are obviously right.  Which comes back to the point of the Kobe haters (not you obviously) saying that Kobe sucks cuz he couldn't get it done in the playoffs.  He didn't have the right players much like Lebron does not now.  Someone lied to Mo Williams that he was an all-star.  WHEN (not if) Lebron gets on a squad that has a legit post player it's going to be lights out for this league.
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Re: Who is the best closer in the NBA today?
« Reply #47 on: May 28, 2009, 02:29:26 PM »
Time for King James to show his ability to not be closed on!

King James has done all he can ... he's going to need someone else to chip in. 

I think Cleveland wins tonight, this series isn't over yet.  Props to Orlando, but these games have all come down to the wire with the exception of 1.  Cleveland could easily be up 3-1 right now. 



That's the whole point. Orlando is up because they close out tight games better than anyone.  It took a one in a million shot for Lebron to win the single game they have. They have more options and more shooters to stop.  I expect Orlando to close out Cleveland tonight, and then beat whoever comes out of the West for the same reason.  They create more match-up problems and have fewer flaws all around than the other teams still playing.

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Re: Who is the best closer in the NBA today?
« Reply #48 on: May 28, 2009, 04:53:43 PM »
You are not taking his comment in the context of the thread.  Lebron was poor in OT in the last game.  He had 4 straight turn overs (two bad passes, one fumble in traffic, and an air ball).  He did hit that awesome 3 in front of the scorers table but they had already put themselves in a really bad spot by then.  Partially due to his turn overs that ended up being dunks on the other end.

Now if you are talking about supporting cast and in general, yea you are obviously right.  Which comes back to the point of the Kobe haters (not you obviously) saying that Kobe sucks cuz he couldn't get it done in the playoffs.  He didn't have the right players much like Lebron does not now.  Someone lied to Mo Williams that he was an all-star.  WHEN (not if) Lebron gets on a squad that has a legit post player it's going to be lights out for this league.

LeBron has also been missing crucial late game FT's.  Every LeBron jock rider thinks he can win it by himself, maybe LeBron is human after all.
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Re: Who is the best closer in the NBA today?
« Reply #49 on: May 28, 2009, 11:03:15 PM »
I will give you ONE guess!

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Lebron game 5 vs Cavs, wow!  Besides triple double 37/14/12, he was involved in scoring or assisting on the last 24 points?
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