<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">So Washington didn't disap pear like the powdered ro sin LeBron James, the Cavaliers' Gandalf, claps from his hands and blows into thin air before the jump ball. That's not the most surprising part of a series that stands even after the Wizards won, 89-84. More unsettling was James and the Cavaliers getting knocked around and losing a drag-out game to a team more Western Conference than Eastern, a team that is to the hard foul what Richard Simmons is to Toughman competitions. "We're gonna hug him and kiss him," Wizards' coach Eddie Jordan said when asked if James was in for more of the same kind of hacks Brendan Haywood applied to him in the first quarter. "We're going to show him the way to the basket. He's a nice guy. We love him . . . We're not the toughest team in the NBA. Tonight brought it out." Hard fouls by the Wizards, harder questions for the rookie head coach and his star player. Why didn't Mike Brown call a timeout after two missed free throws by the Wizards' Billy Thomas? And why in the name of Merlin the Magician did James, his team down three, give the ball to Anderson Varejao down low with 10 seconds remaining? Welcome to the playoffs, where the intrigue and inquisitions increase when the home team loses for the first time as the Cavaliers did on a night when James played (gasp) like a 21-year-old. He has his "magic dust" ritual. The NBA has one of its own. It's not as fun for the hometown fans as watching James do his magician's act. It's a rite of passage. Transitions from the regular season to the playoffs weren't seamless for Michael Jordan. We can say the same of James now as he faces going to Washington and bringing a lost home-court advantage back to Cleveland. </div> Source
LeBron obviously made several poor decisions against the Wizards, but passing to Varaejo in that situation was NOT one of them.
The article is partially right about his decision making, he tried to be too flashy, and it cost us the game. But I do agree with Durvasa, the pass to Varejao was the correct play. When people stop thinking that LeBron is a shoot first guy and realize his passing makes him special, maybe we'll get over some of these incompetent articles about his decision making. But hey, what is any bad LeBron article without a MJ comparison, right?
