May 30 2009
LeBron James: Stay Thirsty My Friend
It looks like the lights are starting to fade out for the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James. What seemed to be an easy playoff series in their first two match ups has changed around since the Orlando Magic have arrived on the scene. Dwight Howard and his teammates have actually won against the Cavs in easy fashion in each game they played. The poor NBA officiating has led the games to being close and the calls that LeBron James gets every game is just ridiculous. The NBA has tried to create a superstar around LeBron James and he’s just not that good of a player. He may develop into a great player, but he’s no MVP right now. He has a poor attitude on the court and shows off way too much to be considered one of the best players in the NBA. He has a lot to work on and it’s not his game that needs the work. LeBron has a lot of character issues he needs to get worked out and until he figures this part of the NBA game out, he’s just a great player that will never win an NBA Championship. Stay thirsty LeBron my friend, because the 2009 is not your year.
NBA referees are calling the game too one-sided and the Orlando Magic has been on the wrong end of the calls in each game. You can’t draw a charge on LeBron James and teams just need to learn how to give him a hard foul, instead of trying to pick up charges against the man they call King James. The NBA and LeBron must end this partnership they have going with the NBA and all of his marketing potential. It’s just not fair to the other teams in the league and the Orlando Magic is clearly a better team in this Eastern Conference Final series. LeBron can’t win a NBA championship playing one on one basketball and it’s not the guys on his team’s fault. He doesn’t pass the ball and he holds on to it for too long and he’s the reason the other guys can’t get into a flow. The guys from TNT seem to think the other guys on the Cavaliers need to step up, but that is hard to do when LeBron doesn’t pass the ball.
Michael Petrus for the Orlando Magic has played great defense against LeBron James. The officials keep bailing out LeBron on these ridiculous calls and way too much attention is given to number 23 that plays on the Cleveland Cavaliers team. If you take away the poor officiating from these games; then the Orlando Magic would have won these games by double digits each time. It’s only the referees that keep these games close and it’s a black-eye for the NBA. Everyone can see the calls Lebron is getting on the court and he does not deserve half of them. If you are the Orlando Magic, you must foul him hard and make him pay for driving to the hoop. Lebron is a poor free throw shooter and he can’t beat you from the foul line. Don’t try to take a charge on LeBron, because you won’t get the call. Just foul him hard and send him to the line and make him earn his points there. The refs are not going to give you the call over the league’s MVP and it’s an award he didn’t deserve.
Lebron James you need to stay thirsty by friend, because the Orlando Magic isn’t going to let you win this series for a chance to play in the NBA Finals. We should get to see the best two teams play in the NBA Finals and this would be the Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic in 2009.
Game 6 in the series is set for tonight in Orlando. Let’s hope the officials keep the whistles quiet and we can wrap up this series and give the Orlando Magic their chance to play the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals. The NBA playoffs are great, but poor officiating this year has hurt them a little this year.
