Now that LeBron has become the de facto go-to guy in Miami, nobody was shocked to see him with the ball on the Heat’s most critical possession Friday night in Atlanta. It was even less of a surprise tonight, with Dwyane Wade out with a cold.
“We went to the set we’d run the two times before,” Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra said of the play that sealed the deal for the 5-1 Heat.
“This one, he was able to reject the pick, go away from it, go through the contact and make that pull-up.”
And that’s why Spoelstra says LeBron is dangerous late in games: not coldhearted conviction, but a willingness to adjust on the fly and dominate accordingly.
“That’s what makes—one of the things that makes LeBron great. He reads the defense, reads the game, and doesn’t predetermine,” Spolestra said.
Another facet of LeBron’s being that Speolstra finds especially helpful is the point-forward-guard’s ability to bounce back from the sort of collision he and Josh Smith had in the second quarter.
Knee to knee. LeBron to locker room.