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?
how old are you?
He’s big, strong and gets away with a lot of travels. His spin is literally always a travel.
Sometimes referees don’t call travels if its not too obvious or awkward looking.
HGH
The NBA stopped calling travels about a decade ago, now they just let the players do whatever, Carries Travels, touch fouls, it’s all about putting points on the board for entertainment.
6’9”, built like a freight train. He probably gets away with an extra step every now and then
When travels stopped getting ignored, LBJ instantly won 2 titles
It’s not about the number of steps until after the gather. The moment the player picks up the ball where if they were to dribble it again, it would be a double dribble. That’s the gather. From there a player can take two steps.
Yes Lebron is big and strong but more importantly what makes him different from other big and strong ie GOBERT is he puts his shoulder down and goes for contact. Gobert is so scared of contact its TRAGIC.
I thought before any of these games started that despite all of the star power, if the team needs 2 points, LeBron is the most guaranteed option. He is almost 40 and not quite the dominant force he once was over a full game but in 10-15 seconds span, he still is.
OP is just another Jordan stan upset that Lebron had a game winning basket. OP ignores the fact that you couldn’t breathe on Jordan without getting a foul so Jordan had an advantage of being guarded soft by his opponents that all other stars didn’t have.
Facts, MJ and Kobe Cultists have been posting the worst takes the last 24 hours since that Lebron game winner. Not just on Reddit. All social media is flooded with the worst “Lebron isn’t actually top 10” takes. It’s ridiculous
He’s bigger and stronger than his defender most of the time. Traveling isnt really called on anyone. This isn’t exclusive to LeBron.
Simple as that
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.