NBA Finals 2011: Is There Something Wrong with LeBron James?

I understand that most NBA fans dislike LeBron James, mostly for the way he left the Cleveland Cavaliers but for many other reasons.

Watching him fail in the fourth quarter of the NBA Finals is tough for me to watch. He has scored two or less points in four straight games. He lacks a motor, aggressiveness and a will to want to be the villain.

James doesn’t have that killer instinct that superstars generally have. Regardless of his triple double—which was the quietest triple-double you will ever see—he needed to stop settling for jumpers and attack the rim.

He is one of the best slashers the league has ever seen, yet he continues to be timid late in games. He can tweet all he wants about game five being the biggest of his life, but it didn’t seem that way. So what is he referring to?

James pretty much gave the same speech he did for both game three and four. That speech sounds great when you win, but wow, does it look horrible when you lose.

Everybody loves to trash James for anything that he does or doesn’t do, and a decent amount of that criticism is fair.

Is something wrong with his life outside of basketball? I don’t have the answer to that but it does feel that something is off. He has always been considered a good guy, and I feel that he is just that. Is it finally getting to him that he is hated by what it seems to be 90 percent of fans?

Every single thing that he does has always been under the microscope and the NBA Finals doubles the size of that microscope.

He said that he browsed the web last night while in his Dallas apartment, reading the articles and remarks by journalists and fans of the game. Why would a guy that seems so sensitive do such a thing? He played well (in my opinion) but lacked a scoring attitude in the fourth quarter.

The bottom line is that James had a great statistical game five, but didn’t score like a superstar should in the fourth quarter. He didn’t take the game by the neck like Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan would.

If referring to Dwyane Wade late makes the Heat a championship team then do it! Don’t listen to the haters that say you need to takeover points wise to be considered elite. Let those people believe that you are “Robin” and not “Batman” because the reality is the Heat wouldn’t be where they are with LeBron James.