Does This Mean Lebron is the Problem?

[cman88]

It wont matter if the heat get a good point guard because wade and lebron handle the ball 90% of the time.   

Lebron and wade pushed the limits of hero ball. Tjey couldnt miss against. Us. Theae guys are streaky shooters.. yet they were hitting 3s in oir faces like they were elite. But the law of average. Caught. Up with them. Eventually and they came back to earth

[wdleehi]

Lebron and Wade share this. 


Both play terrible down the stretches of important games. 

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I'd argue Wade, not LeBron, is the problem. LeBron has his flaws, no doubt, but he plays so much better when DWhistle is not on the floor. Why? Because he and Wade are a bad match. Both have to control the ball. LeBron hasn't learned to play off the ball, which is his problem. The Heat don't really run much of an offense. It's just basically two guys taking turns playing iso-ball. My money's on Miami being better without Wade than without James. That won't ever happen, but I think that's the truth. James can do more than Wade - he is a better passer, a better rebounder, and a better defender. LeBron would excel if he was allowed to play more as a point guard than anything else...he's more like the Big O, Magic, and Bird than he is Jordan. But that won't ever happen in Miami, where Wade has to have the ball in his hands a lot.

[Marcus13]

We can get on their Big Three all we want for not being able to close down the stretch...

but they closed out a lot more games this post-season than our Big Three did

[Bankshot]

I'd argue Wade, not LeBron, is the problem. LeBron has his flaws, no doubt, but he plays so much better when DWhistle is not on the floor. Why? Because he and Wade are a bad match. Both have to control the ball. LeBron hasn't learned to play off the ball, which is his problem. The Heat don't really run much of an offense. It's just basically two guys taking turns playing iso-ball. My money's on Miami being better without Wade than without James. That won't ever happen, but I think that's the truth. James can do more than Wade - he is a better passer, a better rebounder, and a better defender. LeBron would excel if he was allowed to play more as a point guard than anything else...he's more like the Big O, Magic, and Bird than he is Jordan. But that won't ever happen in Miami, where Wade has to have the ball in his hands a lot.

Well Wade already won a championship.  It's Lebron who wasn't able to win one with or without help.

[CelticsFanNC]

  LeBron and Wade are an ill fitting duo.  Both need the ball in their hands to be successful and neither really knows what to do or plays well, without the ball.  They may figure it out and they may not.

  What disappoints me about James is his penchant for disappearing from the action at the most important times.  He did it against Boston in the playoffs last season and he did it again just as soon as Miami lost the momentum in these Finals.  He's a front runner extraordinaire.   When his team is doing great he is right out in the front but when things become difficult he has tended to attempt fall back into the shadows.  It's almost like he doesn't want to fail so he doesn't even try to succeed.  He looked like he didn't want anything to do with the ball in the 4th quarter of these Finals games. 

I don't know that I have ever seen anything like it from a player at his perceived level.