Analyzing Lebron's RB Skills

[Marchesk]

Evasiveness:
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/632099/lebron-flop.gif

Ability to take a hit:
http://nesncom.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/lebron-james-kirk-hinrich.jpg

Using the stiff arm:
http://i59.tinypic.com/2cglyqs.jpg

Spin Move:
http://i0.wp.com/gifsection.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/LeBron-James-travel.gif

Protecting the ball:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/sites/default/files/imagecache/ch_article_main_image/articles/celtics_1.JPG

Breaking tackles:
http://www.ohio.com/polopoly_fs/1.572003.1425535678!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_440/valanciunas-jonas-horse-collar-on-lebron.jpg

Lowering the shoulder:
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/D3uS9yQODweSaQb_ppCYkg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9Mzc3O2lsPXBsYW 5lO3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTY3MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c2922bdea20b00b116243440cd2763f3a3fe47c8.jpg

[ClipperRevival]

:roll:

At the spin move. He took like 8 steps and the ref was right there. How can ANYONE miss THAT call? That might be THE worst travel I have ever seen.

[sdot_thadon]

:oldlol:
Earp Campbell? Or Erick Dickerson? Ahhh Bo Jackson.

[Lebron23]

http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/1002/rare.wilt.chamberlain.photos/images/0.wilt-chamberlain.7.jpg

[ClipperRevival]

How can a guy travel 3 times on one play? Hop twice and lift his pivot foot? :oldlol: Jesus Christ. That's just embarrassing.

[DonDadda59]

Evasiveness:
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/632099/lebron-flop.gif

This man scored 8 points in this FINALS game. 2 of them came from this mockery to the game where the refs awarded him 2 FTs for a 'foul'. He should've been docked at least half a season's pay for this. Shameful and disgusting.




Using the stiff arm:
http://i59.tinypic.com/2cglyqs.jpg


Easily Bron's best and most effective skill. He wouldn't be able to get to the basket without his go to move.

[Marchesk]

http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/1002/rare.wilt.chamberlain.photos/images/0.wilt-chamberlain.7.jpg
Clearly top of the backboard.

Lebron can high step it too:
http://cdn-jpg.si.com/sites/default/files/styles/si_gallery_slide/public/2015/05/29/lebron-james-roundtable.jpg

[Lebron23]

Wilt was a terrible playoffs, and finals performer. Lebron and Wilt are both 2/6 but at least Lebron played his @$$ off in the NBA Finals, and in the Playoffs unlike Wilt the Choker.

[Marchesk]

Wilt was a terrible playoffs, and finals performer. Lebron and Wilt are both 2/6 but at least Lebron played his @$$ off in the NBA Finals, and in the Playoffs unlike Wilt the Choker.

I take it you mean to disregard the 2011 finals, and excuse the 2007 one for being only 22. So then can I get rid of Wilt's worst two finals and then compare?

[NBAplayoffs2001]

That first gif still shocks me he got 2 free throws because of that... LeBron could pay linebacker I would say but definitely not RB. He doesn't have the footwork.

[Megabox!]

I take it you mean to disregard the 2011 finals, and excuse the 2007 one for being only 22. So then can I get rid of Wilt's worst two finals and then compare?
you mean all of them besides like 1 finals series?

[StephHamann]

KANG is a Cowboys fan, with Weeden they need a better running game.

Imagine KANG behind that Dallas O-Line :lebronamazed:

[Marchesk]

you mean all of them besides like 1 finals series?


64: 29.2/27.4/2.4/51.7%, leading finals scorer and rebounder

67: 17.7/28.5/6.8/56%, leading finals assists, rebounder, championship (also FG% not counting teammate Weiss who took 3 shots)

70: 23.3/24.1/4.0/62.5%, leading finals FG% and rebounder

72: 19.4/23.2/2.6/60%, leading finals FG%, rebounder, FMVP, championship

Looks to me like four good finals right there. If blocks were recorded back then, he might have been leading in more than two categories each of those finals (granted Russell and Thurmond were also in two of those).

[dubeta]

Lol adjust for per 100 possessions Wilt vs LeBron in the finals and watch these Wilt stans cry


Even Dwight Howard is a better finals performer than Wilt

[Marchesk]

Lol adjust for per 100 possessions Wilt vs LeBron in the finals and watch these Wilt stans cry


Even Dwight Howard is a better finals performer than Wilt

Doesn't matter. Wilt still did the following:

Lead a finals in scoring, assists, FG% three times, rebounding all six times, and shot blocking between three to six most likely. And a finals MVP at 35.

[Marchesk]

We're getting sidetracked from the OP. As a huge Kirby (and Wilt) stan, even I have to admit Bran has crazy skills when he lowers his shoulders.

[Trollsmasher]

LeBron would be the GOAT WR, easily

GOAT TE too, in both blocking and receiving aspects

[Rocketswin2013]

I just want to know the point about mentioning hand-checking, 80's and 90's, "physical" defense when there is a bitch-fest over his physicality at the point of attack in this "soft" era.

You give LeBron the opportunity to not only put his hands on wing players defensively, but to take advantage of guys initiating contact through their own hands, what would be the result?

[riseagainst]

I think with Lebron's size, agility, stamina and the ability to play all positions, he can easily play quarterback, throw it down the field, run down and catch it himself in time, bulldoze through a dozen defenders and score a touchdown after he leaps over 5 dudes across 20 yards.

easily the GOAT footballer, if not then definitely the biggest and thickest footballer.

:bowdown:

[eurobum]

Spin Move:
http://i0.wp.com/gifsection.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/LeBron-James-travel.gif


2 x travel :oldlol:

[aj1987]

64: 29.2/27.4/2.4/51.7%, leading finals scorer and rebounder

67: 17.7/28.5/6.8/56%, leading finals assists, rebounder, championship (also FG% not counting teammate Weiss who took 3 shots)

70: 23.3/24.1/4.0/62.5%, leading finals FG% and rebounder

72: 19.4/23.2/2.6/60%, leading finals FG%, rebounder, FMVP, championship

Looks to me like four good finals right there. If blocks were recorded back then, he might have been leading in more than two categories each of those finals (granted Russell and Thurmond were also in two of those).
If those numbers are pace adjusted and converted from the Janitors league era to the modern era, he's be averaging ~15/15/4/2 on 50%.

Basically a DeAndre.