The Frustration Continues

The frustration continues for us Heat fans. I can’t remember a team giving away this many games in a playoff series and winning it. When people say the regular season doesn’t matter I point to stuff like this. Miami did this all throughout the regular season. Its amazing that a team with these players, makes me nervous when they have a lead. They completely forget how to play offense and go to this dumb ass isolation stuff. I dunno if this is Spo calling this stuff but this where a few set plays will help your cause. Heat fans have been screaming for that all season and the fact that when you really need a basket, you don’t have any set plays to run is pitiful. This team makes basketball look so hard. This pattern of losing leads is getting annoying….

But lets gon ahead and tackle that big elephant in the room. WTF happened to Lebron??? He picked the wrong day to go and have the worst playoff performance of his life. This was like Cle/Bos Game 5 all over again. Dude’s head was no where near that arena last night. Not only was he extremely unaggressive offensively, but his defense was turrible too. You can tell when lebron is engaged because his defense is incredible. Last night, not one time did he really get up into Terry. But as far as the offense goes, he was killing me. When I say aggressive I don’t even mean just shooting the basketball. Lebron is at his best when he’s attacking. Not 1 time yesterday did he come off of a pick and roll and look to turn the corner. You could see he was looking pass before he even made his move. Miami CANNOT win with him playing like that. Even when he got out on some semi-fast breaks, he refused to attack, where the Lebron all season and postseason would go right at you and put pressure on the defense.

Dude, if you don’t wanna shoot, fine. But at least be aggressive and create for others. He was basically a 6’9″ 270lb darker version of Mike Bibby. He brought the ball up the court, threw it to Wade and just stood around and watched everything happen, content to be a spot up shooter. He has gained some credit with me with his previous game 4 performances against Chi and Bos, so I’m chalking this up to a bad game. Dude has played 46 minutes a game, so maybe he was tired. But this guy has to come out with some passion and a sense of desperation in game 5. You cannot come back to Miami down 3-2.

What’s encouraging and/or nerve racking is that Lebron has yet to have a signature game/moment in this series. Bosh hit the game winner in game 3. Wade has been dominant. I’m hoping Lebron’s passiveness and sorry ass game 4 performance isn’t what we remember about him in this series.

Game 5, time to man up LBJ…