LeBron James

[ScoobyDoo]

I didn't watch the game yet, i have it taped. But at any point last night while James was waltzing through us for his 45 points on 70%+ shooting, did we lay him out? Diod anyone give him a hard foul?

I swear, in that game, with a shot to get to the finals by winning, I would have leveled him after about 15 first half points.

I'd rather watch 5 of my guys foul out bumping him, banging him wrapping him up on shots, WHATEVER, THAN WATCHING HIM DRAIN SHOT AFTER SHOT.

Did anyone nail him? Not flagrant, just good, hard, old school basketball.

Actually, I would've pushed the limits, maybe taken a couple flagrants before I let someone come in and take my ticket to the finals from me on my home court.

Or did we just roll out the red carpet to the lane and to his shots for him?

[GreenFaith1819]

We laid off of him a bit.

Methinks that IF MIA gets by us, Perk will give LeBron a hug or two.

[ScoobyDoo]

I'd love to see that from Perk. And I'm not talking about hurting the guy - you don't want to do that.

But some good hard fouls to disrupt him.

I think I probably would have said, I want him nailed the next four times he enters the lane. Take the four fouls in the 1st or second quarter, have Bass, Steamer or Hollins give him, maybe one from KG, one from Pierce - see if it disrupts him...

[Meadowlark_Scal]

Well BASS could learn a thing or two from old Celtics playoffs film..He is a soft defender, no BODY in it at all...Yes, he does some shot blocking, and position...but for his body type..that isn't enough...HE should be lebrons worst nightmare...a guy built just like lebron....lebron has shown he will back down everytime....THAT is why he never used to take it inot perkins....perk was THERE...!!! When lebron drops that shoulder to drive into you, or puts the running back arm or elbow out there..BASS has to give him 1 hard one right off...let him know you are in it for real.....

[Who]

I don't think so. I can't remember one.

[Chelm]

Great idea.  Get a couple suspensions for Game 7.  That'd be smart.

[Finkelskyhook]

Last night our shots didn't fall....

The officials let Wade do pretty much whatever he wanted trying to get him going....And he didn't...Neither did any other messiah

I don't care if the messiah scores 50.  If he does and the rest of his team produces like they did last night...We'll win.

There's no way we'll have another shooting night like last night Saturday.

[blink]

Well LJ def frustrated our defense last night.  He hit dunks on drives to the rim, open jump shots, turn arounds, difficult fade aways.  I don't know that smacking him around would have helped but maybe. 

I guess I wish we would have tried harder to make things difficult on him.  We didn't make him work hard enough for those shots and points.  He did a lot of quick 1 on 1 plays last night where he shot very quickly after getting the ball.  Didn't allow any defender to close on him.

Bottom line, we needed to come at him harder and find a way to break that rhythm he had.

[Moranis]

Lebron didn't exactly provide much opportunity to be laid out.  A lot of his early shots were fadeaway jumpers and the few dunks he got, he just blew by everyone and no one was in a position to lay him out (without getting ejected for a blatantly obvious and easy flagrant 2 foul call to make). 

[BC1996]

I didn't watch the game yet, i have it taped. But at any point last night while James was waltzing through us for his 45 points on 70%+ shooting, did we lay him out? Diod anyone give him a hard foul?

I swear, in that game, with a shot to get to the finals by winning, I would have leveled him after about 15 first half points.

I'd rather watch 5 of my guys foul out bumping him, banging him wrapping him up on shots, WHATEVER, THAN WATCHING HIM DRAIN SHOT AFTER SHOT.

Did anyone nail him? Not flagrant, just good, hard, old school basketball.

Actually, I would've pushed the limits, maybe taken a couple flagrants before I let someone come in and take my ticket to the finals from me on my home court.

Or did we just roll out the red carpet to the lane and to his shots for him?

Unfortunately nobody gave him a hard foul.  With that being said, you could argue there weren't many opportunities to be physical with him.  13 of his 19 field goals came from outside of the paint.  Only 3 of his field goals came at the rim, two of which were in the first quarter.  Last night's game was a statistical anomaly IMO.  LeBron James' jumpshot was so automatic that he didn't even need to attack with the same aggression that we've come to expect.  I honestly thought he would cool off after the first half, which would have forced him to start attacking the rim again.  It really was an amazing performance by LeBron even though I hate to admit.

As for being more physical, we certainly could have tried to deny LeBron from getting the ball but this would have most likely resulted in a ton of reaching fouls.

The one frustrating play for me came early in the first quarter.  LeBron was in full attack mode, dribbling up the  middle of the floor, and our defense sank way too far.  Paul Pierce waited at the free throw line instead of stepping up to the 3 point line as LeBron crossed mid court.  At that point there was really no stopping LeBron from getting an easy dunk.    

[blink]

the plays that really stood out for me as bad D were the drives to the rim.  We can't let LJ get moving so fast that we don't have time to react.  There were a number of plays where no one checked him coming across 1/2 court and he just got that head of steam and we basically got out of his way. 

We need to be tougher than that, and make him work for his points.  Because he was shooting so well yesterday, I feel like we kind of let down with the hard pressure.  Too worried that he is going to drive or dish.

[dark_lord]

I didn't watch the game yet, i have it taped. But at any point last night while James was waltzing through us for his 45 points on 70%+ shooting, did we lay him out? Diod anyone give him a hard foul?

I swear, in that game, with a shot to get to the finals by winning, I would have leveled him after about 15 first half points.

I'd rather watch 5 of my guys foul out bumping him, banging him wrapping him up on shots, WHATEVER, THAN WATCHING HIM DRAIN SHOT AFTER SHOT.

Did anyone nail him? Not flagrant, just good, hard, old school basketball.

Actually, I would've pushed the limits, maybe taken a couple flagrants before I let someone come in and take my ticket to the finals from me on my home court.

Or did we just roll out the red carpet to the lane and to his shots for him?

in todays nba, sadly you cant do that....especially to lbj.  there would have been fines and suspensions.  i wish we could go back 25 yrs 

[blake]

Everybody remember the 2007 game 5 against the Pistons?  He scored the last 29 or 30 or something like that.  The next game:  3 for 11.  

Dont get too down and down foul him too much (He also went 14-19 from the line in game 6).  

[Meadowlark_Scal]

There was plenty of "good hard playoff fouls" and that was a jvg quote.....I am not saying hit him like even those..but Bass needs to be more effective on D......Good for you if you read it the wrong way....seems to be your trend.

[Meadowlark_Scal]

Great idea.  Get a couple suspensions for Game 7.  That'd be smart.

 

Who said that..?