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Originally Posted by Jim Jones
It doesn't mean that he can't, it just means that chances are that with the way he's been shooting the basketball this season, he's probably going to miss.
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He's probably going to miss a wide open jump shot, you say?
This isn't college basketball. These guys actually make their shots when they're open regularly. His percentages this season only show what he's done overall, they don't show what he's done with nobody contesting him.
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Once again, not "wide open". Watch the play. It's a rushed, awkward looking shot with a hand in his face.
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If it was rushed, it's only because he made it that way. He had time to set up and make that shot with nobody on him at all. The defense had shifted fully over to James.
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Drop the holier than thou bullshit. That's got to be the 10th time in three pages you've spouted some form of "If you think it was a bad play, you don't understand basketball" rhetoric. It's not helping your argument at all.
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I'm sorry, but what you're doing (criticizing a player for making an effective pass out of a double team) is so petty that I can only conclude that you really don't understand what you're talking about.
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LeBron James passing out of a double team to Udonis Haslem, a declining big man who is shooting 39% from the particular place on the floor where he received the ball = dumb basketball play.
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#1. 36 games this season doesn't prove Udonis Haslem is declining. His stats in past years were right along his career averages. Though even a declining Udonis Haslem should be expected to make such a shot, anyway.
#2. 36 games is a meaninglessly small sample size when compared to his entire career of successfully making that shot.
#3. That particular statistic, 39%, doesn't tell you anything about what he does on shots where he isn't contested at all (like he was on that play).
#4. Passing to a wide open NBA player with a history of making open 15 foot jump shots is not a dumb basketball play, it's the right basketball play. It's the kind of play that LeBron James makes successfully several times a game every night because of his passing ability and court vision.