Lebron should never not have the ball in late game situations.
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Pretty good play design, good recovery by hibbert.


Would probably rarer hav lebron shoot a jumper, but designe up a good shot.

Please let us have 7 more of those in may

or Wade or Allen. But if you are only down by 1 Lebron needs to take the shot

Why? If you can get a better shot than LeBron taking some low percentage contested jumper, get that instead.

I feel like we have this discussion every year.

This shit still? After all his great late game decision making over the past few seasons?

That was the play call. Had a decent look too (Bosh usually hits that), but Hibbert made a good contest.

Do you disagree? The superstar player should pretty much always get the last shot. Especially when he'd had the kind of day lebron had today.
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I will take my chances with the greatest player in the world taking a shitty shot vs Bosh taking a shitty shot. If I am down 3 I want Allen to take the shot if I am down 1 Lebron has to. He is the best player in the world getting to the rim and creating his own shot. And I understand that the defense will dictate some of this but unless they are triple teaming him he needs to get the ball.

Yes, obviously. Having your superstar take a contested shot (which it would have been in LeBron's case) is not always the best option. In fact, it's usually more low percentage than what you can get elsewhere.

There was nothing wrong with the play drawn up there. Bosh is a likely HOFer in his own right and has made a career out of hitting those types of shots. Hibbert made a good contest, though, and affected it.

I suspect the idea was for Bosh to be taking a wide open one, not a shitty one. And it nearly was that.


If there was just a bit more time or if the game was at home (where they'd be much more likely to get a call than in Indiana), I'd probably agree with LeBron driving and creating for himself or others there. But what they ended up with was fine.

The odds aren't high that you are going to get an open shot against the Pacers with 2 seconds left.

Anyway I think you are taking what I say about Lebron as a knock, it isn't. It is a knock on Spolestra and sometimes coaches try to get too cute. Luckily it was just a regular season game. I can't wait for these 2 teams to collide in the EC finals.

Them Spurs, still lookin good

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This.

The East blows anyway. Put both those teams in the West and this would just be a game between two playoff bound teams. No big deal.

Except that's nonsense. The Heat have won the championship the past two years and the Pacers are clearly just as good as them (as they showed in the series last year and in the regular season this year). If those two aren't the NBA's two best teams, they'd at the very least both be in the top 4.

Not this season. They each would not be able to feast on the east. Id bet both would be in the 5-8 seeding. The grind of playing a more solid conference top to bottom would effetct them. Thats anything but nonsense.

I'm still not sure why the fact that the rest of the East sucks means that the Heat/Pacers are somehow worse than they were last year. It's pretty obvious they stand among the league's elite, they've taken no step back.