Superman vs. The King
Everyone’s talking about Lebron vs. Kobe. It’s a fun debate, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, we’re not at the finals yet. Superman is up 2-1 on King James and has home court advantage. Can Superman pull off the upset? Let’s put it to a man crush-off.
Watch the :35-:45 portion of this year’s dunk contest. Superman bows his head to Nate Robinson and lets the little man rub his nuts on his forhead as he posterizes him. Lebron looks on in a dapper yellow sweater, seeing the Kryptonite in action. Superman may have won last night’s game to go up 2-1 in the series, but this is the year of The King. He’s not losing again.
James scored 41 points with 9 assists and 7 boards in game 3. Looks like a damn good game on paper, but it was an Iverson-esque game. He scored a lot, but he missed 15 of his 17 jumpers and was 1-8 from downtown.
Does that make Howard the hero? Not really. Superman was in foul trouble, as usual, playing only 28 minutes and fouling out on this atrocious call where he had a clean block on King James. The foul sent Lebron to the line for 3 free throws, but the game was as good as over with Orlando leading by 8 with less than 40 seconds to go.
The game was in hand, partly due to the man crush free throw exchange. With under two minutes to play, Lebron missed two free throws and Dwight made both of his. Dwight’s got the lead in the series, but he hasn’t shown the ability to close. He gets in foul trouble early and disappears in the 4th quarter. Lebron only gets stronger. He’s got Kobe in his sights.
