Lebron James for the full season, 27.5% usage rate, 58.9% true shooting.
Very good for anybody.
Extraordinary for a 41-year-old, but just that’s where we’re at.
20 Ex- like all-star, superstar level usage, very good efficiency.
In big three minutes through the full season, 22.4% usage, 64.3% true shooting.
Usage goes down, efficiency goes up.
Over these last 10 games, 20.1% usage, 73.2% true s- true shooting.
So now we’re talking about LeBron having like, I don’t know, like an Aaron Gordon-y level of, of usage and a, I don’t know, Mitchell Robinson level of true shooting or whatever.
Like the Like he’s, he’s, he’s converting his buckets like a s- a screen and dive role man center in a complimentary role playing off of the other two guys.
And maybe, just maybe, what these g- these three guys needed was more time on task together to figure out how the roles needed to work, and we’re finally seeing it work that way, and we get like a super, superstar in his role LeBron James kinda tying those things together.
This is an interesting version of the Lakers, I think, Tom.
Yeah.
I mean, that’s The really interesting stats there for LeBron in that big three, and again, clarifying the roles and understanding that I remember having a conversation with Erik Spoelstra a few years ago after that 2011 Dallas series where LeBron was just out of sorts, wasn’t willing to attack in, in against JJ Barea in the post, and it was just- It’s he really was soul-searching, right?
it’s just very different to be having your back to the basket and setting screens and being a role man for a guy who’s always had the game in front of them.
Like LeBron has always, up until that point, been able to see the floor, and it’s k- and it’s kinda hard for us sitting on our couch, w- thinking about this.
But like for LeBron, being the role man and turning your back to the ball and not having that, that viewpoint, and almost looking through the rear view mirror when you’re playing basketball, that’s not been his normal, modus operandi.
That’s been kinda something that he had to learn over time.
And so this, where he I’ve always said he’s, he’s Karl Malone out there.
The size of Karl Malone, but with a jetpack, right?
And- Right sometimes you gotta be able to set the screen and be able to be the role man.
It’s not his most natural position, but at 41 years old, I think this is kinda where he’s at.
And I think it’s better for the Lakers that he understands that role and, is able to deliver in that role.
But I think also it’s the people around him