One of the biggest myth surrounding Lebron is that he is a team player because he racks up tons of assists. Of course you are going to get a lot of assists if you dominate the ball for 18 seconds each possession and then kick it to an open shooter. The list of extremely selfish players who got a lot of assists is long. He never learned how to really play team ball so that the sum of the parts is bigger than the whole, and this is entirely his fault. Kobe has the reputation of a selfish player, but the reality is that all the things he does with the ball and off the ball really open scoring opportunities for the other guys on the team, and this really matters in crucial situations. Gasol FG% has gone up by 7% since he joined the Lakers. Coincidence? Jamison was averaging 20pts 10rbds before he joined the Cavs. And they had size in Shaq, Big Z and Varejao, a number of other very good role players, a very deep bench, a defensive-minded coach who actually made them be a premier defensive team. What else do you want?
I really cant disagree with you on that....Lebron isn't as good a player as everyone has been forced to believe....I'm not a Lebron James fan....but my point with that was the Lebron accounted for almost 50% of their offense....I'm not gonna argue that he's an over blown hype machine that gets the benefit of the doubt way too much...but he's still a very good player....just not on tha Kobe, MJ, Magic level....
That's precisely the point. He wasn't up to the occasion. But if you can not rise to the occasion and lead a team to a championship, you do not call yourself The King, you do not get a The Chosen 1 tattoo on your back, and you announce your decision to leave the way every other player does it, not with a months-long circus culminating with a 1 hour special on national TV where you totally humiliate your home state and the people that loved you.
He's not the one that started this "The King" or "The Chosen One" shit. this was started way before he ever stepped foot on an NBA court....this is tha creation of some ad reps at Nike and now him and everyone else bought into cuz it was shoved down our throats by mainstream media. It's more a marketing tool or trademark than it is a serious personal statement.
and this humiliating your home state shit is tha problem with me. I dont see how he humiliated Ohio...he took another job in a different state.. Its not like he went on national TV and said..."Fucc Cleveland. Everyone there is ignorant and they no longer deserve the honor of watching me play".....no one cares when anyone else leaves their team but because his hype machine got rolling and ESPN was salivating at the chance to be the most watched station on TV he's "humiliating his home state"?? Why is it that just because it happens to be his home state he's supposed to bow down and worry about how everyone feels about what his decisions are? Basically this is born from a selfish point of view. If he was drafted by the Spurs and did the same shit would it be this big of a deal?? fucc no!! so why is he obligated to walk on egg shells just cuz its his home state....if nothing else his home state should support any decision he makes cuz if nothing else he may want to come bacc and share some of that wealth that he's earning within the community.
I am telling you that Kobe was able to do it with a lot less than Lebron, with essentially no bench and on a bad knee and broken finger. While Lebron quit when he had a perfectly good chance to win it.
You cant seriously be making an argument that the Lakers are a less talented team than the Cavs....take Lebron away from the Cavs and their best player is Antawn Jamison or Mo Williams.....Take Kobe away from the Lakers and you still have Odom, Gasol, Bynum, Artest, Fisher
