LeBron James and His Struggles Against the Boston Celtics

Let's not totally get carried away with this topic, but it has to be brought up. Away crowds chant the word: "overrated" everytime the king gets the ball, and there is no argument to those chants. LeBron James is a great basketball player, but he just can't do it all alone. Kobe Bryant can't do it alone, Michael Jordan couldn't do it alone, so what would make LeBron James any better than them? Currently the Cleveland Cavaliers are down 2-0 to the Boston Celtics, and James is still searching for his game that people are used to seeing game after game.

During the first game of the Cavs/Celtics series, LeBron James came out pumped up. But being at TD Banknorth Garden, home of the Boston Celtics, it could have been the loud crowd chanting "overrated", or perhaps it was the fact that he took 18 shots and only made 2 of them. It's just not possible to win games if your star player is throwing up those numbers. Luckily Zydrunas Ilguaskas put up 22 points on 8-18 shooting. The Celtics only won the first game by 4 points, so if James would have put up 20 or more points, the Cavs would have had a much better shot at winning the game, which could have changed the momentum of the series, but now it's a 2-0 deficit for the Cavs and it doesn't look too great.

The second game of the Cavs/Celtics series started off very similar, the crowd being as loud as they were in the first game, and LeBron James walking onto the court hoping there wouldn't be a repeat of the first game. Boy would all of the Cav fans be surprised and certainly shocked at "King James." The Cavs looked great in the first quarter, but it went downhill from there. In the end, the Boston Celtic would prove to be too much by blowing the Cavs out 89-73. James put up an improved 21 points, but 9 of those points came from the free throw line (9-13). James would go 6-24 in the second game of the series, which would equal a horrid 8-42 shooting from the field. LeBron can only hope that he left his star-studded shooting in Cleveland when they return.

Boston Celtic's Paul Pierce commented on James' performance: "I'm a little shocked that he's 8-for-42, but this is what we work on. We work on trying to contain him." In my opinion, I'd say that this was more than containing him, this was simply shutting him down, and if James continues to perform the way he did in the first two games, they can kiss the next round goodbye. Game 3 will be in Cleveland, and the Cavs better hope that James is back on track, and that their crowd is as involved as the Celtic's crowd was.

LeBron stated: "Being down 0-2, that's a tough hold to dig yourself out of. But if we want to win the series we've got to do it." One can only hope that the performance is a lot better. I mean I can deal with a loss if James performs well, but the first game of the series was basically theirs, if only James would have played a little better. But it didn't turn out that way. Be sure to tune in on Saturday when the Celtics visit Cleveland at home.