So one of the positives and negatives of Lebron and trying to build a team around him is that he always has the ball in his hands for best outcome. All the talk of “we need a new offense initiator” always results in Lebron with ball and that person standing in the corner.
40 year old Lebron on the Olympic team resulted in the same offense that the terrible Cavalier teams had 10-20 years ago. 9 guys staring at him while he dribbles around to make something happen or call for picks.
If you put Lebron in a set offense where someone else is bring up the ball and it’s set to get him the ball in specific spots with built in cutters, etc - does that help him? Hurt him? Over a 20 year career.
Understand that the NBA has changed and the whole idea is to get the giant fast guy moving downhill so he can either dunk or kick out to 4 shooters (somebody tell the Lakers) - but ignore that - I’m not trying to go back to 90s bully ball offense.
Or you could just let him know how they play instead of jumping on a high horse and being a dick.
meh, you’re probably right but I’m busy and kind of a dick when people claim to know what they’re talking about and obviously don’t
FWIW, when it got to crunch time they repeatedly went to the most basic play in hoops - pick and roll. That’s probably why OP thought it was just Lebron dribbling around. Against Serbia, I think, even KD admitted they ran very few plays in the fourth and just played “off each other” - which is still not Lebron dribbling around. As for the rest of the time, you could tell they had different sets for when different players were out there.