LeBron brings the ball up and is met by DeShawn Stevenson on the left wing. Upon receiving the pass, however, James immediately swings the ball to Dwyane Wade on the left wing. Since Dallas is playing zone, Barea is the only defender in the area, and he picks up James. Mario Chalmers passes to LeBron at the top of the key after James curled off of a Udonis Haslem screen. Barea made layup, the Heat set up their offense. James misses badly and Dirk Nowitzki grabs the rebound.įollowing a J.J. Tyson Chandler meets James, who attempts a fade-away shot. After a couple of dribbles, LeBron spins to the left block. He is met by Jason Terry at the three point line. Dallas rebounds.Īfter a Dallas missed shot, LeBron brings the ball up. James sees Mario Chalmers open on the opposite wing and passes to him, but Chalmers misses the wide open three pointer. James begins to drive past Jason Terry into the lane, but Tyson Chandler rotates over, and Terry catches up for the doubel team. Dwyane Wade brings the ball up and passes to LeBron James who is at halfcourt. Possession #1 - 9:30 left, 85-77 Dallasįollowing a Miami timeout, LeBron James enters the game for Eddie House. James entered the game with 9:30 seconds left in the 4th quarter and the Mavericks holding an 8-point lead. While we all know what the final outcome was, let's take a look back at the possessions LeBron James had in that 4th quarter:
#Lebron stats 2011 finals series#
The Mavericks' star Dirk Nowitzki, on the other hand, was 8-of-13 for 26 crunch-time points.ĭespite his previous performance in the series, you would think that a star like LeBron would be itching to take over the game and send the series into a Game 7. In fact, prior to that point, LeBron was 0-7 when the score was within five points in the last five minutes of the game. In the previous three rounds of the playoffs, that average had been 7.6 points. Up until Game 6, LeBron had scored just 11 points total in the 4th quarters of the Finals for an average of 2.2 points per game in that quarter. Unfortunately, one-third of The Big 3 - LeBron James - had been playing terribly in the first 5 games of the series. After all, it had been less than a month ago when the Heat won Game 5 in Chicago on an 18-3 run to win the Eastern Conference finals. The Miami Heat are down 9 points entering the fourth quarter and are 12 minutes away from elimination. You at the bottom of the barrel again just like everybody else."īarkley went on to blame the media for telling LeBron he was Michael Jordan instead of a Magic Johnson or Scottie Pippen.It's Game 6 of the NBA Finals. "You think it's that easy huh? Look where your ass at right now. One of his harshest critics was Charles Barkley, who ripped LeBron after Game 6. It's a day that a lot of other critics thought was a good thing for LeBron, who started the controversial season with the infamous "not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six" championship talk. It's a day that had many critics calling LeBron's performance in the series one of the biggest playoffs collapses by a superstar ever. It's a day LeBron probably doesn't care to remember because it's the day his heavily-favored Miami Heat lost a championship to Dirk and the Dallas Mavs. As LeBron gets ready to take on the Warriors in Game 6 of the 2017 NBA Finals, we are going back exactly six years ago today to Game 6 of the 2011 NBA Finals.
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