Miami Heat: Why LeBron James Doesn't Deserve the Ball Down the Stretch

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Miami Heat can’t afford to defer to LeBron in crunch time

Spare me the 82games.com stats.

I want to see it for myself.

The legend of LeBron James as a great crunch time scorer has over shadowed the rumor that LeBron James is not a great clutch time player.

The legend is false.

The rumor is true.

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There’s an easy statistic to figure out who is clutch and who is not. It’s the sight test. It’s the ability to produce results over a certain period of time to show that it’s true.

I can tell you with certainty that Derrick Rose has been clutch this season, because I’ve seen it time and time again. Michael Jordan was clutch too.

Derek Fisher and Robert Horry have been clutch their whole careers. Even Kyle Korver, the Bulls crunch time man, has been known to sink a big three.

Show me where LeBron has? A guy who’s as clutch as the stat heads say wouldn’t have to show me a sheet. I should already know.

LeBron fails in the clutch because he’s too busy trying to figure out what every one expects him to do in the clutch rather than figuring out what he’s supposed to do.

He doesn’t run without the ball well. He doesn’t shoot free throws well and his three pointer isn’t deadly.

The Heat have Wade, a supreme decision maker in the clutch, and therefore there is no need to put it in the hands of a man who has had so many clutch moments that no one can seem to remember them at all.

LeBron is incredibly important to the Miami Heat’s post-season success.

Just not in the clutch.

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