Lebron: You Can't Win a Championship

Recently Lebron James scored 52 points, grabbed nine rebounds and handed out 11 assists to lead his team to a win against the New York Knicks. One would think that this would be a blowout but it was only a five-point victory. This started my belief that the Cavs are a one-man show that cannot win the NBA’s championship. Yes, Lebron James has led his team to 40 wins this season and yes they have the third best record in the NBA. It is true that Lebron scores the most points a game in the league at 28.5. However, Lebron has scored 30 plus points in 19 of the teams 40 wins and under 30 points in seven of their losses. Without ‘Bron ‘Bron knocking down shots this team has holes because the cast of clowns around Lebron can’t hit shots in the clutch or support Lebron. No other player on the team is averaging 20 points a game and the next best players Zydrunas and West are both sitting out with injuries. Some of the other notable players like Mo Williams (whom should not have been on the all-star team), Anderson Varejao (who is a flopping Argentinean), Booby Gibson (overrated three point shooter) and Sczerbiak/Wallace (washed up) are all insufficient to back Lebron in a run to the championship. Additionally, Lebron is the Cavs leading scorer at 28.5 a game, but also in assists with 7 a game and 7.5 rebounds a game. There is no balance within this teams attack and must rely on Lebron to be huge every game or they will suffer.

On another note Lebron’s attitude can be suspect at times. A few weeks back when his team lost to the Pacers he committed the final shooting foul allowing Danny Granger to hit a few free throws to win the game. In disgust Lebron walked out off the court with time left on the clock. What a joke! Why would he do this? What message does it send to his teammates? I am Lebron and I am leaving for New York soon whether or not I single handedly win a championship.

To put Lebron’s current team in perspective let’s take a look back at the 1995-1996 Bulls and the 2008-2009 Celtics…

I know many of you out there will say that Michael Jordan had similar squads to Lebron but this is not true. In the 1995-1996 championship season the Bulls had Scotty Pippen whom led the team in assists with 5.9 a game, Dennis Rodman was a king on the boards with 14.9 a game and of course Michael Jordan led the team in scoring at 30.4 a game. Role players like Toni Kukoc, Steve Kerr and Luc Longley helped to round out the team. If Lebron wants to win a championship then he better start looking back at Jordan’s days and take a page from his playbook, get some help and don’t take every shot or make every pass.

Now take the Celtics who have Pierce leading the team in scoring at 20 a game, Rondo with at 8.5 assists a game and Garnett with 8.9 rebounds a game. Ray Allen is very close to historic numbers in field goals, free throw and three point shooting percentage at .50, .90 and .40 respectively. With these balanced numbers they do not rely on one player each night to carry the team to victory. They don’t have Posey or Brown on the bench any more but Powe, House and Big Baby fill in nicely. The Celtics are far superior to Lebron’s Cavs, it’s a no brainer, balanced scoring, passing and rebounding, not to mention maturity and class separate the Celtics!

Look I am not negating how good Lebron is as a player. He is fantastic, stupendous and will go down in history within the same breathe as Jordan, Johnson, Bird and Bryant. However, the Cavs are overrated and Lebron won’t win a title until he gets some help and at this rate it won’t be in Ohio!