8 years Later, Lebron can Really Shoot

[KG Living Legend]

 Anyone watching this Playoffs you have got to be impressed.

 This guy is shooting the crap out of the basketball. I mean wow. At cold blooded moments, you name it.

 As of this moment Lebron is a dare I say, a Great shooter.

 What a scary proposition that is for the NBA.

 He's doing everything right now that he could never do in years past. Polar oppisite.

 Call it experience. Call it playing with two All stars. Call it both. Whatever the case,  he seems to be arriving right before your eyes and I sure hope he cools off fast in the Finals, I'm praying Dirk keeps his focus and gets he and J Kidd their first rings.

 However it's going to be really tough for the Mavs if Lebron keeps shoothing like Ray Allen at the end of games.

 PS if it toook the Chosen one 8 years to become a great shooter, by my calculations it will take Rondo 8 years after he retires to knock him down the same way.

[GreenNote]

As much as I don't like LeBron he definitely has got it going right now and is pretty much impossible to stop. Let's see if he can play this way when he's down (in a must win game or down in the series).

So far he's always had that cushion. I give him all the credit, he's proven everybody wrong so far.

[PosImpos]

LeBron's hitting roughly 35% of his three point shots in the playoffs, versus roughly 33% in the regular season.  His regular season percentage is not a large improvement over the last few seasons.  The post-season percentage is actually 5% worse than last year (when he shot 40%).

LeBron has hit some big shots from outside late in games, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he has improved all that much as an outside shooter.  The difference between his shooting stroke now and at the start of his career is quite large, but it's not as though that it's only just become apparent.

[CelticG1]

He doesn't need to be a good shooter. The NBA as instated rules where defenders are not allowed to make any contact with an offensive player during a game. He just needs to drive into the lane for wide open lay ups or if somebody comes in contact with him it's an automatic foul.

I know this is a bit off topic but isn't kind of ridiculous how much the NBA has handicapped defenders to the point where they aren't even allowed to really play defense anymore?

Defense is starting to become a very irrelevant part of the game.

[Who]

Yeah, LeBron has really improved that midrange (10-16 feet) + long two point (17-23 feet) jump shooting.

He is a quality jump shooter from those areas now.

[Who]

I thought LeBron's three point percentage would increase a bit more than it has so far in Miami.

He was a good stand still three point shooter in Cleveland but didn't get many attempts of that variety there. Most were off the dribble. I thought Wade and Co. would help get LeBron more of those stand still shots and he'd lift his three point percentage some more.

Maybe next year.

[Steve Weinman]

LeBron's hitting roughly 35% of his three point shots in the playoffs, versus roughly 33% in the regular season.  His regular season percentage is not a large improvement over the last few seasons.  The post-season percentage is actually 5% worse than last year (when he shot 40%).

LeBron has hit some big shots from outside late in games, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he has improved all that much as an outside shooter.  The difference between his shooting stroke now and at the start of his career is quite large, but it's not as though that it's only just become apparent.

No room for facts here, move it along.

-sw

[OsirusCeltics]

He doesn't need to be a good shooter. The NBA as instated rules where defenders are not allowed to make any contact with an offensive player during a game. He just needs to drive into the lane for wide open lay ups or if somebody comes in contact with him it's an automatic foul.

I know this is a bit off topic but isn't kind of ridiculous how much the NBA has handicapped defenders to the point where they aren't even allowed to really play defense anymore?

Defense is starting to become a very irrelevant part of the game.

Thats why the 60's-80's are the best era
The years after that, its all commercialized. Its not real basketball anymore, its entertainment

[SHAQATTACK]

I think , the MAVs will just have to conceed JAmes his 35 points , like most do Howard and basically play the best "D" on everybody else.

Ganging up on the shorter Wade would be my plan. Have Barea run him to death , with KIdd too adding fatigue in to.  Don't give Wade a second to catch his breath.

Mavs need to play savage "D" in the paint .

If they can make a few shots and get a few calls , they can have a shot at the HEAT.

[LB3533]

LeBron's hitting roughly 35% of his three point shots in the playoffs, versus roughly 33% in the regular season.  His regular season percentage is not a large improvement over the last few seasons.  The post-season percentage is actually 5% worse than last year (when he shot 40%).

LeBron has hit some big shots from outside late in games, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he has improved all that much as an outside shooter.  The difference between his shooting stroke now and at the start of his career is quite large, but it's not as though that it's only just become apparent.

No room for facts here, move it along.

-sw

Against Boston and the Bulls in this postseason, Lebron is shooting 17-41 from 3 point land.

41.2%

...against the top 2 defenses in the league, and the top 2 teams in the conference.

[Who]

LeBron's hitting roughly 35% of his three point shots in the playoffs, versus roughly 33% in the regular season.  His regular season percentage is not a large improvement over the last few seasons.  The post-season percentage is actually 5% worse than last year (when he shot 40%).

LeBron has hit some big shots from outside late in games, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he has improved all that much as an outside shooter.  The difference between his shooting stroke now and at the start of his career is quite large, but it's not as though that it's only just become apparent.

No room for facts here, move it along.

-sw

Against Boston and the Bulls in this postseason, Lebron is shooting 17-41 from 3 point land.

41.2%

...against the top 2 defenses in the league, and the top 2 teams in the conference.

Hot streak?

[KG Living Legend]

He doesn't need to be a good shooter. The NBA as instated rules where defenders are not allowed to make any contact with an offensive player during a game. He just needs to drive into the lane for wide open lay ups or if somebody comes in contact with him it's an automatic foul.

I know this is a bit off topic but isn't kind of ridiculous how much the NBA has handicapped defenders to the point where they aren't even allowed to really play defense anymore?

Defense is starting to become a very irrelevant part of the game.

Thats why the 60's-80's are the best era
The years after that, its all commercialized. Its not real basketball anymore, its entertainment

 A thousand Tp's to ya, and a tip of the cap.

 That's exactly how I feel.

 All sports now is business first, everything else second.

[chambers]

I thought he was 28% from the three this year? (regular season)
or was that his career stats?

[Moranis]

I thought he was 28% from the three this year? (regular season)
or was that his career stats?

it's neither.

[CelticG1]

LeBron's hitting roughly 35% of his three point shots in the playoffs, versus roughly 33% in the regular season.  His regular season percentage is not a large improvement over the last few seasons.  The post-season percentage is actually 5% worse than last year (when he shot 40%).

LeBron has hit some big shots from outside late in games, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he has improved all that much as an outside shooter.  The difference between his shooting stroke now and at the start of his career is quite large, but it's not as though that it's only just become apparent.

No room for facts here, move it along.

-sw

Against Boston and the Bulls in this postseason, Lebron is shooting 17-41 from 3 point land.

41.2%

...against the top 2 defenses in the league, and the top 2 teams in the conference.

Hot streak?

Yeah when we were losing to the Heat I didn't think we had much of a chance if Lebron and Wade were lighting it up from 3 (and long 2's). That was our game plan against them to basically give them the outside and I think it's the best strategy you can go for. I thought both Boston and Chicago played the way they wanted to defensively and Lebron and Wade (at least in our series) made some tough, tough shots consistently.

Hopefully it really is just a hot streak and it is coming to an end. You can feel good for a while making those shots but they've been relying on those to win games and it just seems impossible for that to continue to last