I honestly don’t understand how he scores so many points by driving and how other players can’t do the same thing. He doesn’t seem to have any special moves or speed or agility. He just drives to the basketball and it just works. It honestly looks like the defense almost lets him half the time.
The second thing is that, so back in the day, after the ball is not active (for example, in your control and unable to be dribbled again), you would get the step for when you ended the dribble plus one more step, so 2 steps. The NBA then added a “0th” step so now players get 3 (which might make for cooler and easier dunks, but it seems a bit insane for people who are like 6’9" to get 3 whole steps without dribbling in a game that’s largely about dribbling).
Now, on top of that, it seems like Lebron often takes FOUR steps!? If you watch some - not all - of his drives in slow motion, especially when he does a spin move.
For example, check out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CND2s-4bz6c at 1:42. The dribble ends (step 1), another step which starts a little hop (step 2), and two more steps after the hop. WTF???
Does the NBA need AI refs to automatically track feet?
they call travel in the olympics/FIBA a lot. if its not getting called even there then i think you just have to accept the fact that in the modern basketball its just not travel. yeah modern basketball from 80s to now.
he’s just too strong, that man got as high as 78% fg around the rim and no he didnt just play in the pace and space era, he played with legit 2 bigs in the paint at one point. thats just how good his finishing is.
its a combination of a lot of things mainly strength, speed and touch that everyone seems to be saying in this thread but I don’t think anyone mentioned his ability to out jump everyone especially in his younger days. even now you can see him control his body mid air after gaining a lot of experience from up there.