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    Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

    http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...poelstra112910
    Adrian Wojnarowski
    Yahoo! Sports

    Erik Spoelstra reached out to Mike Brown over the summer and searched for insight into both basketball’s blessing and curse: Coaching the two-time MVP LeBron James.

    Over and over, Brown uprooted his offensive system to appease James only to have it never work. Brown praised James’ character publicly when he would’ve preferred to have been truthful about James’ narcissism. James defied Brown in public and private, disregarded his play calls to freelance his offense, and belittled him without consequence within the Cleveland Cavaliers.

    Meticulous in his preparation, Spoelstra spoke with several past coaches, and league sources said a clear and unequivocal picture appeared on how to proceed: End the cycle of enabling with James and hold him accountable.

    And surprise, surprise: LeBron James has responded with a test of his own organizational strength, pushing to see how far the Heat will bend to his will. This season, James is hearing a word seldom uttered to him in Cleveland: “No.” And it keeps coming out of the coach’s mouth, keeps getting between the King and what he wants.

    Can I stay overnight to party in New Orleans after a preseason game?

    Can I play the clown in practice?

    Can I get out of playing point guard?

    No. No. No.

    Wait, what?

    No, LeBron.

    No.

    Even within a month of the season’s sideways 9-8 start, the NBA witnessed a predictable play out of the James-Maverick Carter playbook on Monday morning. They planted a story and exposed themselves again as jokers of the highest order. They care so little about anyone but themselves. Still, no one’s surprised that they’d stoop so low, so fast into this supposed historic 73-victory season and NBA Finals sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers. They want Spoelstra – and Pat Riley – to bend to them, to bow to the King the way everyone has before them.

    Nevertheless, here’s what was surprising – even troubling – when the Heat talked on Monday before a victory over the Washington Wizards: In the blink of an eye, Dwyane Wade signed up with Team LeBron to scapegoat and sell out Spoelstra.

    “I’m not going to say he’s ‘my guy,’ but he’s my coach,” Wade said.

    Wade’s always been loyal, and that’s why it was so surprising to witness him bail this fast on Spoelstra, whom Wade knows too well. Spoelstra is a good NBA coach. Everyone knows that Wade isn’t a star who plays hard all the time, knows that he takes plays off on defense. They know that Spoelstra did a terrific job coaching 90 victories out of that flawed Miami roster the previous two seasons.

    As much as ever, the Heat need Wade to influence James. Only now, it’s clear James is influencing Wade. With Udonis Haslem out for the regular season, the locker room misses one of its vital voices. Now, Wade is struggling on the floor and James is the devil on his shoulder, whispering that he doesn’t need to be accountable, that there’s an easy fall guy for everyone: Spoelstra.

    Those who know Wade well, who care about him, were disappointed Monday. When Spoelstra needed Wade to stand up for him, Wade never shrunk so small. Spoelstra was Wade’s guy, but Wade’s finding it much easier to align himself with James’ coward act than do the right thing. This was something that you’d expect out of Chris Bosh, who’s never been a leader, never a winner, but Wade?

    “He knows better than this,” one of Wade’s former assistant coaches said. “I’m not saying he hasn’t changed some, but he knows right from wrong. And this is wrong.”

    The fundamental problem for Spoelstra isn’t that James doesn’t respect coaches – he doesn’t respect people. Give LeBron this, though: He’s learned to live one way with the television light on, and another with it off. He treats everyone like a servant, because that’s what the system taught him as a teenage prodigy. To James, the coach isn’t there to mold him into the team dynamic. He’s there to serve him.

    Wade was one of the Team USA players who’d watch incredulously as James would throw a bowl of fries back at a renowned chef and bark, “They’re cold!” Or throw his sweaty practice jersey across the court and command a team administrator to go pick it up. Everyone wants James to grow out of it, but he’s never showed much of an inclination for self-examination and improvement. And he’s never surrounded himself with people who’d push him to do so.

    What’s more, the timing of this leak was no accident, because James and his business manager had to like the idea of someone else going on trial this week. When the public wanted to talk about James’ return to Cleveland, about the callous way with which he left, about the disjointed start in Miami, they thrust everything onto Spoelstra.

    Part of them believed they could deflect Hell Week at home in Ohio, and part of them probably believed they could indeed align the public with them against Spoelstra.

    After all, the coach had it coming to him. Of this, LeBron James was sure. Spoelstra had the audacity to do something that Mike Brown never had ownership’s backing to do in Cleveland: To push James, call him out, coach him.

    The funniest part had to be how they leaked the idea that Eric Spoelstra was panicking now, behaving like he feared for his job. Truth be told, he’s been behaving in the opposite way. Spoelstra isn’t running from LeBron, but running at him.

    Someone’s scared here, but it isn’t the coach.
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    Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

    Wow, that was a scathing article...

    It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.

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    • #3
      Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

      The question is....when it comes to Spoelstra Vs. the Big 3...who is Riley going to side with?

      If you listen carefully....you can hear the laugh of Dan Gilbert ROFL all the way from Cleveland.

      Anyone else thinking that Riley is going to scratch that Coaching Itch pretty soon?
      Last edited by CableKC; 11-30-2010, 02:47 AM.
      Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.

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      • #4
        Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

        Spoelstra is Riley's prodigy. He treats him like a younger version of himself. I cant see him allowing himself to get bossed around by a 25 year old control freak with no rings.

        Lebron is tradable at this point. It isnt like Riley would be breaking up a championship team.

        It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.

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        • #5
          Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

          Wow, now this makes much more sense. Who would really leak those things that have come out the past one or two days unless it was helping them out for some reason?

          Now I understand why Mike Brown is taking a break from the NBA this season.

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          • #6
            Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

            The truth shall set you free. I dream of a day when Lebron signs in Turkey just like a former primadonna who was bad for the league and has no rings anywhere. I just hope it happens sooner rather than later
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            • #7
              Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

              Originally posted by Diamond Dave View Post
              I dream of a day when Lebron signs in Turkey just like a former primadonna who was bad for the league and has no rings anywhere. I just hope it happens sooner rather than later
              don't think it will happen but still amen.

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              • #8
                Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

                And I would also like to thank YAHOO for reporting under the surface of what is being said. They have substantial news stories even on their basketball page instead of selling out to players and money........... ESPN.

                Edit:
                So I was looking at some more articles on yahoo and came across one about Lebron and Spoelstra's relationship

                http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/bal...urn=nba-290079
                Relationship between LeBron and coach gets chillier, not chill
                By Kelly Dwyer

                You could be sure that it wouldn't take long for Maverick Carter unnamed sources to lash back in LeBron James'(notes) defense, especially in the wake of the team's disappointing start, and the goofball BumpGate controversy.

                In speaking with ESPN's Chris Broussard, Carter the source had this to say about Heat coach Erik Spoelstra's relationship with the team:

                "He's jumping on them," one source said. "If anything, he's been too tough on them. Everybody knows LeBron is playful and likes to joke around, but Spoelstra told him in front of the whole team that he has to get more serious. The players couldn't believe it. They feel like Spoelstra's not letting them be themselves."

                Carter The source went on to point out that Spoelstra singled James out during a recent shootaround, telling the Heat star that he couldn't "tell when you're serious."

                Now, all this is being tossed out there to make Spoelstra look bad, as he struggles to right Miami's ship, but all this nonsense is doing is making Spoelstra look better. Of course James doesn't take these things as seriously as he should, not when he's setting up parties and appearances in clubs following road games, or taking whole possessions off to float around the perimeter. This sort of criticism, something he never got in Cleveland, is exactly what he needs.

                Spoelstra doesn't need help in looking bad. Though the Heat are ranked highly offensively on sheer one-on-one talent alone, Spoelstra is still the guy calling for simplified 1/5 screen-and-rolls -- sometimes two on the same play once the first option doesn't work -- late in close games, coming out of a timeout. Spoelstra is the guy who was handed three of the best offensive players at their respective positions (statistically last season), and watched as each has regressed significantly within his obvious offensive schemes.
                And Spoelstra looks even worse while trying to laugh off BumpGate as something typical, as he did Monday morning:
                Spoelstra said he "didn't even notice" the bump until it was mentioned after the game.

                "Coming out of the timeout, it's a pinball game. I'm colliding into a lot of people. So it's probably a perfect case of overspeculation from this team," he said Monday.

                "I was fine with that timeout. The fact that guys are not happy about the play, tempers rose, you could see the fire and passion in people's eyes. That's the way it should be," he added. "None of us should be happy about what was going on in the third quarter and taking it in stride."
                Come on, Erik.

                It's fair to say that I've watched a lot of NBA basketball through the years, and have seen my fair share of angry teams skulking back to the bench after a timeout. I never -- NEVER -- see that sort of bump from a player to coach. Is it wrong to get up in arms about it? Sure. Let's not go crazy because a coddled, churlish athlete acted the part. But let's also not pretend that this is a typical or even infrequent occurrence.

                Spoelstra is not doing his job when it comes to getting the most out of the players that he's been put in charge of. But he is right to call out Miami's Big Three, each of whom have been the biggest underachievers on this team. Not the point guards, not the big men, and not the coaching staff.

                If LeBron doesn't have to dominate the ball offensively, then he needs to go nuts defensively and on the glass. If Dwyane Wade(notes) isn't confident in his shot, or if he should be shooting a particular shot as opposed to James, then he needs to find a way to get to the line, as has long been his custom. And if Chris Bosh(notes) doesn't even sniff the ball during a play, then he needs to crash the offensive glass, and earn his team extra possessions. None of them are giving extra, when it's obvious that the team is at nearly .500 just because the Big Three are taking turns giving what they gave while all alone in Miami, Toronto and Cleveland. And winning basketball doesn't work this way.

                So Maverick Carter Chris Broussard's sources can gripe all they want about Spoelstra taking his frustrations out on the superstars, but he's right to question their commitment. There's no reason James should have just two double-figure rebound games, so far. There's no reason Wade should be playing the sort of defense he's playing, and there's no reason Chris Bosh's rebound percentage should have dropped to a mark below the percent he came through with as a 19-year-old rookie.
                Keep snivelin', sources. You're going to make a martyr out of Spoelstra yet.





                Ok, so in this article everytime "sources" are mentioned this article put a crossed out line across Maverick Carter (highlighted in red)....of course basically implying the source is Maverick Carter without really saying it for sure. Also take note that the author is different on this article than the first one.

                So it seems the Coaches have taken to YAHOO to vent their frustrations, whereas Lebron and his people have taken to ESPN to vent their frustrations. Of course, unless ESPN knows of all this and is still protecting it's media darling who had a show to himself on their channel.

                I do not want to derail the thread, but I did find this pretty funny.
                Last edited by Pacerfan; 11-30-2010, 04:02 AM.

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                • #9
                  Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

                  "Wade was one of the Team USA players who’d watch incredulously as James would throw a bowl of fries back at a renowned chef and bark, “They’re cold!” Or throw his sweaty practice jersey across the court and command a team administrator to go pick it up."

                  so this actually happened? man, that's ridiculous. it's stuff you'd see from a tv show character or something...

                  oh and btw woj hates lebron, this is like the tenth article he's written about the heat since they all decided to take their talents to south beach. i've enjoyed every one of them.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

                    So, TJ+Posey for LeBron? Few weeks ago he said he wants to play PF, and we could use a 5th big when Foster's hurt!

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                    • #11
                      Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

                      Originally posted by Woj View Post
                      With Udonis Haslem out for the rest of the season...
                      This is the big revelation to me. They are screwed, perhaps the biggest talent drop after the top three in the history of the game. Seriously, they'll be lucky if they're sniffing home court in the first round of the playoffs.
                      You Got The Tony!!!!!!

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                      • #12
                        Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

                        Originally posted by AesopRockOn View Post
                        This is the big revelation to me. They are screwed, perhaps the biggest talent drop after the top three in the history of the game. Seriously, they'll be lucky if they're sniffing home court in the first round of the playoffs.
                        They definately created this situation, they get what they deserve. I hope the rest of the people in the league who were rumored to link up elsewhere like chris paul and melo with amare are taking a good hard look at this situation and maybe thinking twice. I think it's just better for the game of basketball if this whole experiment blows up in their face down in Miami, it probably wouldn't be such a great thing for marketing and people like ESPN who have that stupid "Heat Index" on their NBA page, but oh well.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

                          Originally posted by TheDon View Post
                          They definately created this situation, they get what they deserve. I hope the rest of the people in the league who were rumored to link up elsewhere like chris paul and melo with amare are taking a good hard look at this situation and maybe thinking twice. I think it's just better for the game of basketball if this whole experiment blows up in their face down in Miami, it probably wouldn't be such a great thing for marketing and people like ESPN who have that stupid "Heat Index" on their NBA page, but oh well.
                          couldn't agree more. heat's failure would be best thing that has happened to nba lately.

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                            Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

                            Originally posted by xtacy View Post
                            couldn't agree more. heat's failure would be best thing that has happened to nba lately.
                            It would be the best thing that could happen for teams like the Pacers, but it would be a bad thing for the NBA and their bottom line.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Wojnarowski: King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him

                              If I am Lebron and assuming all this is true about his character and such. I have to wonder if he is that dumb then. Lebron should want Spoelstra to continue being the coach because he might be willing to bend to accomadate Lebron - but if Riley takes over he'll be much less willing to bow to the great Lebron.

                              The rumors that the Cleveland Cavbs owner didn't back Mike Brown have been so widely reported - that must be true. Mike tried to stand up to Lebron but the owner always gave into him. So Mike tried to get along with the King. And actually I think Mike did a great job considering the situation
                              Last edited by Unclebuck; 11-30-2010, 09:07 AM.

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