LeBron James: ‘Not Impossible’ He Would Play in Cleveland Again

It wasn’t really Lebron’s fault that the Cavs lost most of the time (minus in Game 5 of the 2010 playoffs when he was oddly passive) because his teammates really did suck. If the Cavs had been in the West all those years with that same roster, they would have barely sniffed the 7th or 8th spot, much like the 2006 Lakers, who had just as bad of a roster. However, his excuses have dried up now. There is no excuse for the Heat losing to the Mavs and more importantly, for him disappearing overnight and freezing up in the NBA Finals.

Honestly, Lebron’s problem seems to be more with coaches than anything else. Spo has rubbed me the wrong way ever since TNT started showing what he talks about during timeouts, huddles, and locker rooms. Everything he says is melodramatic and unnecessary, as if he’s attempting to emulate Denzel’s role in Remember The Titans. Hell, I’d tune him out if I was a player. And Mike Brown was just plain scared.

honestly? you give lebron steve nash’s team in 07, or dwayne wade’s team in 06 and he wins several titles. period.

I think Mo Williams, Anthony Parker, and Anderson Varejao played a lot better than they actually were and there is a reason for that. Those teams had plenty of chemistry and a few more seasons together I didn’t see much fall off. Only upside. And AllenP your ‘discussions’ always turn into argumentative rants anyways,

Gametimeweezy, Mo Williams is in his prime (aka as good as he’s gonna get) Anthony Parker’s prime was a decade ago, in Europe. And Anderson Verajao is the type of guy that is not going to change your chances at a title, other than by supplying energy and hustle from a 32MPG role player. Basically they looked that good because they played with LeBron. Which should be obvious, they did just play a season without him that gives some very compelling evidence that they were nowhere near championship caliber.

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The problem with the Boozer issue is that he was only eligible to make that money because they let him out of his deal early. Now, of course, he would have been a free agent in one more year and they would have had to compete with everybody then, and the Cavs would have been getting him for a steal at $40 million, but they did do him a solid favor.
To me, if they let him out and he said “Look, $40 million ain’t cutting it, I’m going to need more because Utah is offering $70 million.” And the Cavs said no thanks, then that’s on them. But, if he got out of the deal and then just signed with Utah with no warning, then that’s fairly shady. Not more shady than getting traded after you sign a sweetheart deal to stay with your current team (which happens all the time) but it’s still shady.
And Kidd is a very good defender. But LeBron is way too big and way to quick. Did you see what Wade did to Kidd the few times he put him on the block? No way should LeBron have struggled like that.

Boozer was a restricted free-agent wasnt he? So Cleveland always had the opportunity to retain him N didn’t. Isn’t that the definition of refused…..

LeBron lost in the finals with Cleveland for the same reason he lost the finals with Miami.
When his shot wasn’t falling, he didn’t have the teammates who were ready to fill a scoring role. So he gets frustrated and his confidence goes to hell in a handbasket. Just like what happened in Cleveland
Wade’s shortcomings in the finals were overshadowed by LeBron’s failings
Miami will need to find role players like shooters with size and versatility just like Cleveland failed to do.
No argument that Cleveland made some mega mistakes in getting much better players but Miami also has some serious work to do.

LeBron lost in the finals with Cleveland because the Spurs were better than them from Top to Bottom. They didn’t win a single game in that series for the same reasons that people blame LeBron for the Miami series. (I blame LeBron too, but I also don’t think Dallas was losing after game 3 anyway. That team had it clicking, they didn’t look beatable)

Nah, that Dallas series was still a toss up. He choked big time. He failed his team.
But against the Spurs, he had no shot. Daniel Gibson and Eric Snow are not cutting it. And LeBron’s jumper was pretty broken back then. They shouldn’t have beaten Detroit, but the Pistons were complacent and coached by Flip Saunders.

^You gotta go in on Flip like that? lol. I always thought he was a decent coach. On the right team anyway. I don’t think that Dallas series was a toss up. No more than it was vs the Lakers. Dallas was going to win the chip last year. They were clicking more than the Celtics during there most perfect moments via 06. They were nailing daggers all Playoff’s. More so than any team before I believe. Dallas was a Juggernaut.

I will start by saying that even though I am a Cleveland Cavaliers fan, I am as objective as they come. I will also state that LeBron was the sole reason for the Cavs reaching the NBA Finals in ’07, but to claim he didn’t have enough talent to win it all in the following years is bogus. LeBron choked in the ’08-’09 series against the Magic, quit in the ’09-’10 series against the Celtics & completely fell apart last summer against the Mavs. Throw out statistics all you want, if you watched the games & understand basketball, you’ll understand while LeBron is naturally the most talented we’ve ever seen, he has BIG time flaws in his game. Against the Magic, two 20 point leads vanished in the first two games & his floor game was awful with all his timely turnovers. Against the Celtics, he completely quit & seemed disengaged in Game 5 & 6 & last summer, he absolutely folded & became the 4th best player for the Miami Heat (Chalmers played much better than him). You still harp on LeBron’s lack of talent in Cleveland for the reason him not winning it as if he didn’t have a team with arguably 2 of the top 5 & 3 of the top 15 players in the league on one team lose to a Mavs team with the 6′ tall 33 year old Jason Terry as their 2nd best player. Maybe, just maybe, he’s just not the player most people think he is?

@bike & Wade’s shortcomings in the Finals? are you KIDDING me? he was the sole reason the Heat won the two games that they did. They lost because LeBron choked, face it. He scored 8 points in Game 4… EIGHT! Yet they were still in the game. & the only reason they lost was because Jason Terry scored 8 4th quarter points… on LeBron.

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Man, those Suns teams were way more stacked than Miami last year. They didn’t have the star power of Wade and Bron, but the drop off was not as steep once you got past the big two, particularly that team Nash had that lost to the Spurs 4-1 when Amare averaged 35 a game.
Now, the team the next year would have been a challenge, and I don’t know if they would have won the ring. But, I think they would have beaten Dallas that year.
And I they would have been contenders the next year.

^ that’s true. If Stoudemire were healthy in 06 I think Phoenix would have been playing Miami.

In my defence, coverage wasn’t great over here so I didn’t get to see the games, just heard how much of an upset it was for the Cavs to lose.

Allenp – objective or subjectively… your OPINIONS speak for themselves. I’m starting to think you are only able to evaluate teams and players on induvidual basis alone. Hence your OPINION that Mo Williams, Parker, and Varejao suck. You FAIL to accept anything other than your own objective and subjective OPINIONS… so you cannot fathom a TEAM that had Mo Williams, Parker, and Varejao would be able to improve with LeBron James at the helm. That is absurd to think they WOULDN’T improve… unless you think role players are unnecessary? I can tell you it is a FACT that they were just fine for that team.

Gametimeweezy: I just want to inform you, you are WELL into the minority on this one. Williams, Parker and Varejao is an awful starting lineup.

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yea i know lol

i’ll love to see lebron back in cleveland. it would be great cuz he have d potencial to win there