LeBron James Doubts He Can Average Triple-Double

^^I don’t know bout y’all but I’ll be willing to pay just to watch them practice. Just imagine the kind of EPIC battles bron and wade are going to have all season long.

If Bron is “taking over” in Miami, I think that’s disaster waiting to happen and one of the main reasons why I don’t think this team will achieve the kind of success everyone is predicting or expects. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if stories of in-fighting start floating around as the season progresses. I don’t expect Dwyane Wade to just be OK with having to step aside for LeBron James.

Wade said himself that he’s not a vocal leader and that LeBron will be heard the most…he leads by doing. I don’t put any stock in where the three sat during an interview lol. If you want to get that technical, during media day, Wade sat in the middle of them while they answered questions. This is Wade’s town. I don’t think LeBron went to Miami to take over.
@JTaylor The Lakers are deeper than the Heat, that’s what makes them a better team. Just look at their benches. Would you rather have Eddie House, Jamaal Magloire, James Jones and Juward Howard? Or Lamar Odom, Matt Barnes, Steve Blake and an improving Shannon Brown? LeBron and Wade will be playing heavy minutes. Kobe will be able to rest a little bit during the season. And rings are rings. Circumstances don’t really matter. It doesn’t matter what kind of team you play on. So we can’t knock Kobe because he played with Shaq or Gasol/Bynum/Odom. It doesn’t lessen the achievement. If we dock Kobe, then we will have to end up docking LeBron even more when his career is over. Both of them will have to have asterisks because of who they played with. It will have to be across the board. What would MJ have been without Scottie? How many rings?

Bryan: you should listen to their latest ESPN interview. I expect Wade to be down with the program. He said he’s glad that Bron will be realy vocal on the court because he had to take on that role the last few years in Miami even though that’s not really his style. He also talked about how he has no problem adjusting his game to fit the team’s needs and even bring the ball up some. And LeBron has already taken over the defensive end like KG did for Boston when he came over. I kinda figured this would happen because, after all, Bron is still the best player on this team but I didn’t know it would happen right away. Again, Wade will probably still be the focus of Miami’s marketing campaign OFF THE COURT.

The thing that really impresses me about Oscar’s 61-62 season is he didn’t just average a triple double. He averaged a MONSTER triple double. It wasn’t like he just squeaked by in one of the categories.

@ManogGod: Cmon now… the guys on the Heat bench you’ve mentioned are not even in the 9-man rotation. It’s Miller/Haslem/Big Z/House or Arroyo LO/Blake/Barnes/Brown or Sasha… not as lopsided as you make it to be.

Thank you for pointing that out, T-Money.

T-Money, I saw that interview. I just think everyone is playing nice right now. That’s all. And as far as off the court marketing, if LeBron truly is taking over on the floor, he’ll take over off it too.

I enjoyed Lebrons’ game only behind Dwyane’s B…..so yeah….I was with him while everyone, including you, made him seem like he was some Jared Dudley clone when talking in terms of the best player in the game argument, especially once he left Cleveland. And while I would hope you or the Bulls wouldn’t be scared to play ANYONE, let alone the Heat, the bravado of two young guys like Noah and D-Rose are only going to carry you so far. If your hopes are falling on the broad yet limited shoulders of Booze, I fell for you and Bulls nation. I still say your boys are going to miss Captain Kirk (especially for D against Dwyane in a potential playoff matchup) more than their additions will mean to them. But I’ll say this….I worry more about them than the Magic.

Shaq and Kobe on the same team was a stacked effing deck.
Kobe, Pau, Artest and Odom is a stacked effing deck.
Hell, Garnett, Pierce, Allen and Rondo is a stacked deck, and let’s not forget Duncan and Robinson.
Bird, Parish, Johnson and McHale?
Magic, Kareem, and Worthy?
Russell, Cousy, and the gang?
Kareem and Oscar?
Anybody who devalues Lebron’s rings because he won them in Miami is being ridiculous.
The rings are rings. I would have preferred to see him go at wade’s neck to get them, but even if he went to Chicago he would have been on a stacked team, compared to the rest of the league.
That just doesn’t make sense and is indicative of the ridiculous standards people use when discussing Lebron.

Oh and B, for the 100th time, I hated the Decision. I loved the outcome and threw the MJ fist pump when he said South Beach. But the idea of it, the twerpy little Jim Grey, the bad, overgroomed beard, etc? I hated it like everyone else and almost felt bad for the Cavs and their fans until Gilbert and their fans went on like Lebron was Hitler.

Eboy, Ronnie Brewer is a far more capable defender than Hinrich. And with the he way he stunk it up the last 2 seasons, he won’t be missed. And collectively, Rose, Noah, and Booz are as good a trio as there is in the East. And why knock on Booz? He’s just a bigger version of Bosh.. a 20/10 guy with no D. And I don’t think anybody believes in the Magic anymore.

He can do it; I actually can’t see him not doing at least 13pts 11 assist 12rebounds a game. Honestly speaking.

@Dagger: Actually, the Bulls have been a .500 team the last 2 years, not a sub .500 team. Come correct before you start taking shots at my squad. Secondly, I think the Bulls have a much better shot of having a better record than both the Hawks and Bucks based on how strong of a team they will be defensively. And to take shots at Thibs for offense, you act like VDN was some kind of offensive genius or something? And to take shots at DRose and Booz is just asinine. Those guys are legit, even if they have some shortcomings.

@ManofGod, yes they should. @ B, Ronnie Brewer is capable….of being embarrassed. The last meaningful playoff matchup he had was against Kobe and Kobe ate him. So if you think his little skinny ass can match up with Bron, you’re silly. If you think he can deal with Dwyane over a seven game series that’s silly. Kirk matched up with Dwyane better than ANYONE in the league. That’s not a reach. Dude frustrated him EVERY game they played. Dwyane himself has said the same.

I’m sorry Crawford, you seem like an intelligent dude but you say the most unreasonable things to prove your points.

@T-Money: Like for real, for real.
@Eboy: Brewer is a good matchup for Wade, not Bron. BTW – Kobe kills everybody.
@Jukai: If you think Hinrich is a better defender than Ronnie Brewer, OK. I’m not going to argue that.

Maybe he should try and lead the league in rebounds or something. That’ll be suprising and cool all at the same time.

@JTaylor21: I did not say that the Bulls TRIO was “better” than anybody’s, I said they were AS GOOD AS any trio in the East, and I stand by that. Boston’s is old and on their way out and Miami’s is at the top of the food chain. That’s not even a debate. But ours is definitely legit even though nobody seems to want to give them any credit for being so.

Eboy, I purposefully didn’t even bring up LeBron because I know better. There is no 1-on-1 matchup for him. That’ll have to be by commitee, although Deng does a fairly good job on him. He’s not a stopper though. I’m not that crazy.

Eboy is right. Hinrich played Wade better than anybody in the League. In fact, when the Bulls bounced the heat in the playoffs, it was mainly because Hinrich had Wade looking like a bum for long stretches. He doesn’t bite on the pump fakes, doesn’t let him drive to his right at will, and plays him phyiscally, but clean. I always liked Hinrich.

1.people have conceded the future to the Heat, not the present. The Lakers front court and depth gives them an edge, but in another year or two it’s over for them. Maybe sooner.
2.you can’t take a chip away from them, but you can put a big assasterisk next to it. I’ll get into the contstruction and validity of other stacked teams in a post another time, but the glaring difference between this situation and any other is that there was no GM or owner acting on the players behalf. This wasn’t due to a trade or a fixed draft. LeBron made “The Decision”. No one else. If he wins, he wins. But no one will forget how.
3.people have been bombarded with the Kobe/Shaq corrollary so often that it’s been all but cemented as fact. Kobe himself acknowledged it during both of his past two chips. So if it’s applicable then, then it’s applicable now. You can say that Bron n Wade needed each other, but that’s not necessarily true either.
4.i heart Kobe, as I hearted MJ so I don’t mind a cocky player. But in the decision that Bron made, he essentially humbled himself. If he would have overtly said “I don’t want to do it alone, it’s not fun. I’d rather enjoy the game with my friends and honestly I do like to pass more. I don’t want to carry the load every night. And I don’t want one ring. I want a fistfull. I want to be a part of something bigger than myself.” then there’d be no problems from me. But he hasn’t. He’s stacked the deck in a way that no one before him has and continues to behave as though he’s the King. You can’t have it both ways and if he didn’t learn that this summer he will soon enough.
5.bye.

@Allenp: So now Chris Bosh is better than Carlos Boozer? Really? How? Yesterday, you said that you weren’t ready to concede that Iguodala wasn’t a better mid-range shooter than Josh Smith and you needed to see stats. But everybody knows that without even having to look anything up. And no, the trio in Chicago doesn’t “compare” to Miami’s, but don’t act like they’re no slouches either. Nobody has a trio that compares player-for-player to what they have down there, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t any competition for them either. Excuse me for not being willing to just roll over and play dead for Miami.

Bryan
I don’t see the conflict.
I would have preferred, as a fan, to see he and Wade battle it out for rings. More exciting basketball for me.
That doesn’t mean that Lebron, Wade and Bosh trying to win ring with role players and castoffs he somehow unvalid. It’s like Jordan, Pippen and Rodman (who was a free agent if I’m not mistaken).
If every other superstar can play with superstars to win rings, why can’t Lebron? I feel like Rose should develop into a superstar, but I can understand that Lebron didn’t want to wait around. He wants to win now and so do Wade and Bosh.
I think it’s ridiculous to say Lebron’s rings don’t count because his team is stacked when you look back over the history of NBA champions and who played on which teams. It just doesn’t make sense.

Eboy, the Joel Anthony vs Joakim Noah thing was a joke, right?