But one entire season of being a good midrange and three point shooter should count right? Along with shooting over 50 percent the past few years. We know he will never be Ray Allen or Reggie Miller out there. All he needs is a respectable J and he has that now.
He's not a below average shooter at all, and I think that might be the impression that I'm giving off. His shooting numbers looked good, but if teams play him like the Spurs played him early on and stayed true to decent defensive rotations, then he is more susceptible to being flustered like he was earlier in the series.
They decided to play him this way because they didn't believe that he would light them like he did in game 7, and for a coach like Pop to back off of him until the bitter end says a lot about the perception of Lebron as a shooter (and also Pop's own ego played a huge part too). He torched them last night, but I still have doubts on whether he can

He still has work to do to make it a steady part of his arsenal to get that respect at mid and long range that Kobe gets. They never leave him alone, even on a bad night. They can't play Lebron too close because he drive, but they'd be too afraid give him the space that the Spurs gave him outta fear of a deadlier J.
Improve on that and his footwork on post ups and his game is butter. But this is just my opinion :shrug2: