carmelo and lebron

last nite was another head to head with these surging superstars. lebron did his thing and just filled the stat sheet. carmelo is a good player, but he'll never be the superstars lebron is. he is way less athletic than lebron and does not have his skill set. with all that said, lebron is still terrible playing down the stretch. make or miss, he has to take the last shots. the last few plays by the cavs were terrible.

after melo blew by ira newble for a baseline dunk to put nuggs up by 2 (which was terrible team defense by cavs), cavs called a timeout. lebron was being guarded tightly and pavlovic (yeah i had to look up his name too) couldn't pass it back to him to make a play, so he then decided to drive in himself and got fouled. well that's not a bad thing i guess, but there was still roughly 19 seconds left to play, he still coulda got bron the ball with time for bron. worse yet he missed both free throws. somehow the cavs got the ball back, and instead of taking a wide open three (with an ilgauskas screen no less), he passed it back to pavolvic who promptly took a terrible shot and missed it.

nevermind the missed freethrow that coulda tie the game later on, this sequence alone tells that lebron is terrible at making crunch time decision. he needs to learn by taking those big shots.