After the crying saga last week in Miami, I have to wonder why in the world is LeBron James is taking the last shot, instead of Dwayne Wade.
LeBron continually fails the Miami Heat at the end of games. LeBron seems to think this is his team. But he lacks the killer instinct of Kobe or a Jordan or any of the greats, it takes to be a winner. Instead, Dwayne Wade, the man who carried the Heat to the finals, the man who down 2-0 to Dallas in 2006, led his team to four straight wins needs the ball in his hands when the game is on the line. In the said Finals, Wade put them on his back and single handedly won the championship. Something Lebron wasn’t able to do when he lost to the Spurs in the 2007 Finals.
Many people in the industry consider Wade the better closer, but he keeps deferring to LeBron at the end of games, why is that?
Wade needs to tell LeBron “Hey man, I’m the finals MVP. This is my team, not yours, give me the ball and let me close.” After a loss last week, Lebron said, “Like I told my team, I'm not going to continue to fail them late in games." There is no reason to think he won’t continue failing the Heat. As the Heat are all crying in the locker room, I think to myself, if LeBron doesn’t want to fail his team then defer to Wade at the end of games. For them to make a championship run this year and in future years, I think LeBron needs to facilitate and put the ball in Dwayne Wade’s hands with under a minute to go.
--Dakota