I have been meaning to touch on this subject for some time but my studies (ha!) and other things have been keeping me away from posting. Brian Windhorst touched on this subject on his Cavs beat blog tonight, but its something I have been meaning to talk about as well.
I will go all Matthew Berry on you here.
Player A - 33.3% three point percentage
Player B - 33.9% three point percentage
Player C - 32.7% three point percentage
Player B is Kobe Bryant's three point percentage for the 08-09 season. Player C is Michael Jordan's three point percentage for his career. And Player A is LeBron James' three point percentage in 08-09.
When people talk about LeBron's game, his detractors quickly point out his jump shot or supposed lack of one. National media blowhards like Skip Bayless have even dubbed him "LeBrick." But what most of the national media is missing is that LeBron has quietly improved that area. Since January 30th, LeBron has gone 42-93 from deep for a Jason Kapono-esque 45.16%.
Expecting him to keep shooting 45+% from deep is pretty unreasonable. He still gets the ball too many times late in the shot clock and has to take too many difficult threes. I like to refer to these shots as "The Jodie Meeks Special." Also, he attempts too many heat check threes after big dunks or hitting several shots in a row. But if LeBron can hit in the 35-37% range on his threes in the playoffs and consistently knock down the shots the defense gives him within the rhythm of the offense, you can count on a Cavs championship.
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Another bullshit accusation is his supposed lack of clutch offense. Whatifsports did a study on this, considering clutch shots to be single possesion games with 24 seconds or less remaining. Lebron had a higher field goal percentage than Kobe under this criteria.
Good point...but please be more interesting Daniel
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