"The things he does on the basketball court you can’t teach," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "There’s brilliance to his game. And then you add the work ethic and his thirst to always get better and to push himself beyond his comfortable limits."
I'm pretty sure it has already been established but it never hurts to reaffirm the point.
LeBron James is a freak of nature. There is not one individual defender in the game today that can consistently limit him and there probably isn't a defender in NBA history that could have done much better.
Even if you throw in Ron Artest or Scottie Pippen in their primes to defend him, you have to imagine that they'd have trouble at some time defending James simply because of his size. I completely recognize how elite their individual defense was. However, James' physicality and aggressive mentality wear you down over time.
While a defender may get tired over a 48 minute period, James seems incapable of doing so. At junctures throughout the playoffs, it appeared that James was slowing down and the leg cramp he suffered in Game 4 against the Oklahoma City Thunder was proof positive of it. The f ...
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