Originally Posted by
buck008
South Florida fans in general are front runners and don't care. So I've known for a while the fans down here suck. I posted this on Cracked a little bit ago. Sums up this series for me:
After having some time to digest this, I think I've finally drawn a conclusion about this series, this team, and LeBron James in specific. Obviously, the better team won. This year, with these rosters, if this series was played 10 times Dallas wins 8 of them. Dirk finally got his turn as a superstar, which was long deserved.
The Heat though, have been organized all wrong. It was pretty clear they should be playing around Dwayne Wade. With the way LeBron is built, he should spend this summer watching some film from Hakeem or Ewing or Bird and learn a low post game. It's pretty clear which one of those two can handle the pressure of carrying a team in the clutch, and this team doesn't work well when Wade is trying to let Bron do his thing, but the sackless bastard keeps passing up shots and giving up the ball.
At this point, we can't say James is the best player in the NBA. Sure he has the potential, but he isn't. No more Jordan talk, no more Hall of Fame talk, and none of this "one of the best players ever". He's earned none of that. Right now, he's a very good player. He's certainly a huge improvement over the average. But he is not great. He doesn't lead, he doesn't make his team mates better, he doesn't rise to the occasions that called for greatness. I think that's what pissed me off about game 5 and the triple double. He did just enough that people couldn't say he did nothing, but he turned in a very good game when the situation demanded a great game. Nowitski played out of his mind for 6 games and stepped up when it mattered most. When Dirk was down, his team carried the load until he could get on track, but they still looked to him to get it done. At the end of game 6, Chalmers wouldn't pass to James on a break away down the stretch. Mario fucking Chalmers knew LeBron didn't have it and they would have to do it without him. He needs to go into a media blackout this offseason and really figure out what he needs to do to get from very good to great, or he needs to learn and accept a new role. Unfortunately I don't think the guy's ego will let him do that.