Let's just say what happened. Miami not only underestimated San tan, they were even out of shape. Supporting casts be damned because Miami went out and got a bunch of names, while San tan stacked their pine with some players. The egos that filled up the Miami locker room gives me much respect to whom ever built that locker room, it with stood like the Spurs did.
Lebron is a great player, once the Spurs took the game out of his hands by throwing the ball around like a hackey sack, he didn't have a hackey sack team to play with. He looked alone, showed what he was capable of in spurts, and then quit trying to be "Jordaness" by purely distributing the rock at times, hiding in important quarters that mean the most... one of his biggest oldest knocks.
Jordan, Magic, Bird, they made talent out of figuring out what their team mates were good at. Bill Cartwright played on the Bulls. They also demanded the best out of their team mates 24/7 if they wanted to play on the same court. They boosted egos, Lebron says some nice stuff on camera but that team is quick to let Lebron try and die on his own, like Kobe was for a minute.
Not only was Lebron out of shape, he was out of shape with his team, that coasted East Coast style. All the while Pops didn't have the "current" talent that Miami did, the Spurs was old and crusty and got beat last year, which is what people always remember. Back to back titles surrounded by a great team suddenly turns into poor Lebron, he doesn't have anybody around him... but he just got beat by team ball!
Talented yes, best player on the planet? I think it's between him and Durant right now but neither can demand excellance and force their teams to play to the best of their capabilities, not like the other greats have. The current NBA is talented no doubt, but ego filled talent will lose to fundamental universal basketball, especially when Pops is involved.
As they say, rant over.
