Those stats about LeBron closing vs Wade closing dont mean ****. Show us 1 of them THIS SEASON only, becuz thats whats relevant. LeBron took his choking to a whole new level this season and everyone who followed basketball AT ALL knows it. He was actually a clutch player before this season. ESPN is obsessed with LeBron yet even they were showing weekly stats of how bad LeBron was choking every time he disappeared another 4th quarter or bricked another clutch shot. LeBron disappeared every ****ing 4th quarter in the finals. It was embarrassing. I was embarrassed for him for how bad he played, being that Ive supported him and believed he was the best player in the league even through all the fire he went under over the course of the last year. But LeBrons performance in the finals was just unacceptable. The best player in the world doesnt consistently disappear entirely during crunch time in every game of a 6 game finals series. 1 maybe 2 times would be excusable. By my memory he had only 1 4th quarter that was even mildly acceptable in the entire series. Meanwhile D-Wade was consistently playing his ass off. And also clutch doesnt just mean shooting. D-Wade had plenty of clutch defensive plays, I can remember a game this post-season where he had 2 HUGE blocks in the final minute of the game. He also plays the passing lanes extremely well and comes up with big steals in the clutch. And he was creating opportunities for his teammates. LeBron wasnt doing jack **** on the biggest stage of his career, where if you remember he got absolutely handled by the Spurs in 07 in the most lop-sided finals in NBA history where Wade CARRIED his team back from an 0-2 hole on the same stage just 1 year before. In the finals LeBron is a proven absolute choker and D-Wade is proven as possibly the best finals performer in the league right now. So yes, LeBron's choke job these finals was pretty epic.
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