SH Blog: Breakdown of what went wrong for Warriors, writer calls Melo an overrated ball hog

• The Bucks are facing the Heat in the first round, but that didn’t stop Samuel Dalembert from talking about his interest in joining them next season, from Chris Tomasson of Fox Sports Florida: “Samuel Dalembert is now facing the Miami Heat. Next season, he has interest in playing for them. The Milwaukee Bucks center becomes a free agent this summer. Dalembert, who had discussions about joining the Heat before last season, expects they again will be in the mix. “The Heat will be definitely an option,’’ Dalembert told FOX Sports Florida before his Bucks lost to the Heat 110-87 in Game 1 of an Eastern Conference first-round series Sunday night at AmericanAirlines Arena. “It’s up to them and seeing what’s going to be out there. But at this point you want to be with a contending team. You don’t want to go backwards, so you want to chase that promised land.’’… “I’d look at the mid-level, whatever’s going to be out there,’’ Dalembert said. “If it is a real contending team, we’ll have no problem. So we’ll see.’’… “I love that option,’’ Dalembert said of the closeness of Miami to Boca Raton and also to Haiti. “That’s an option to move back and forth… I have a lot of family (in South Florida) and we have a lot of concentrated Haitian population here.’’

• LeBron James says he has set the bar too high for himself, from Tomasson: “Even James sometimes can’t comprehend the levels he reaches. “I’m setting the bar actually too high for myself, to come out here and shoot what I did tonight, 9 of 11, and the games I’ve been shooting,’’ James said. “If I go 9 for 18, then you guys look at me crazy.’ Yeah, by James standards, 50 percent would be pretty crummy. James now has shot 69.6 percent in the past 10 overall games he has played, never having gone below 58. A staggering five times during the stretch he’s been above 70 percent… “We have so many threats out on the floor, it allows me to just play without any stress because I know guys on our team can make plays with or without me on the floor,’’ said James, helped out Sunday by 20 points from Ray Allen, 16 courtesy of Dwyane Wade and 15 from Chris Bosh… “Any little rest you can get throughout the NBA season, it helps us all,’’ James said. “The season is very taxing mentally, physically, emotionally, everything. So when you have an opportunity to get a little rest, it definitely helps for me in particular. It definitely helped me a lot.’’

• Wanna know just ridiculous James has become? He beat Ray Allen and Mario Chalmers in a game of around the world at the 3-point line, and made them do 20 pushups:

• Here are Marc J. Spears and Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports reporting about the status of Suns general manager Lance Blanks:

• Boston Globe writer Dan Shaughnessy explained why Carmelo Anthony will never win a championship: “Overrated ball hog. This is Carmelo Anthony. He doesn’t seem to be a bad guy. He is not the devil. He’s probably going to shoot the Knicks past the Celtics in the first round of these NBA playoffs. But he’s not going to be an NBA champion. He’s not one of the all-time greats. He appears to be incapable of doing anything to help his team unless he has the ball in his hands. Who are the best NBA players who never passed the basketball? Larry Bird and Magic Johnson made teammates better with their passing skills. LeBron James is a great passer. Even Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant gave it up once in a while. Wilt Chamberlain — who averaged 50 points a game in a season — managed to lead the league in assists when he decided he’d done everything else. Oscar Robertson averaged a triple-double over a full season. Tiny Archibald led the league in scoring and assists in the same season. Not Melo. He plays like an only child. He cannot share the ball. He knows he’s better than all of his teammates and he plays like a man intent on doing it all by himself. He either has the basketball, or he’s demanding the basketball. The Knicks’ offense is Melo pounding, and four guys standing around watching.”

• Jeremy Lin thinks the perception of him is very bipolar, from Jere Longman of The New York Times: “It seems like everybody’s perception of me is very bipolar,” Lin said. “To one group, it’s overpaid, overrated; to another group, it’s underpaid, underrated, underdog. It’s funny to me because there’s no real balance. Why can’t I just be a young player who’s shown some potential and has a lot of learning to do?”… “I look at this as my journey, and it’s just the beginning,” Lin said. “God willing, hopefully this will be the worst player that I am for the next 8 to 10 years until my body can’t hold up anymore. I just want to continue to improve every year. I’ve shown that I can play in the N.B.A. How good I can become, that’s to be determined.”… “I’m more than thankful for everything New York gave me,” Lin said. “It helped me grow spiritually, taught me how to be more business savvy, who to trust, who not to trust, how to say no. All the things you usually get a little more time to learn, they came quickly.”

• Brandon Jennings remained confident about beating the Heat in six games, from Ira Winderman of Sun Sentinel: “I said it, so I’m going to still stand by it,” he said. “But I’m glad we got Game 1 out of the way, so we know what to expect and we know what type of environment we’re playing in.” Three years ago, in the Bucks’ previous playoff appearance, Milwaukee lost the first two games of its opening-round series against the Atlanta Hawks, before winning the next three, only to fall in Game 7. Jennings said that falling into such an 0-2 hole against the Heat would be playing with fire. “It’s going to be real important,” he said. “This is not like a couple of years ago when we played the Atlanta Hawks, when we were down two and we were able to go home and win two. We’re playing against the champs, so we can still win in Miami and go back 1-1. That would be a good thing.”

• Tim Duncan explained why he is not on twitter, from Spears:

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