{"id":1239,"date":"2014-06-06T21:12:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T21:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2014-06-06T21:12:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T21:12:22","slug":"lack-of-fortitude-continues-to-plague-lebron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Lack of fortitude continues to plague LeBron"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton<\/h1>\n

Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He discovered the grass is only greener here (it\u2019s blue in Kentucky), so he returned to again take charge of his 1954 green Hudson Hornet that had been in storage, refilled his pipe, and is continuing his smokin\u2019 ways. Here is what he recently told us at the Sports Paper.<\/p>\n

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Bumerton sees all<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I take issue with what Clay Moyle just wrote for this sorry rag of yours, Big Dawg, about cramping and LeBron James. He\u2019s making excuse for the best basketball player in the world, and maybe one of the best athletes of all time. There is no excuse for that.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been watching this LeBron character for some time now and I can tell you he\u2019s a full-blown, healthy man with a child\u2019s mentality. He can be awesome to watch and at times disappointing to watch. When he\u2019s in his child-like mentality he can be lazy on defense, cherry-picking on offense and standoffish when he should bear down and take over a game. The other night he drove into the lane and clearly could have put up a shot and likely be hammered for his efforts, leading to two foul shots that could have tied the game. Instead he took the easy way out and passed the ball out to the corner for a three that missed and cost them the game. Any of the great players of the past \u2013 Magic, Bird, MJ \u2013 would have taken the hammering and tied the game at the foul line. But I\u2019m seen LeBron too many times fall back when he should charge forward and take over a game as he can and should. Until that happens, I\u2019m going to continue to call him a fantastic athlete with a man\u2019s man body who when the going gets tough decides he wants none of that.\u00a0 Just once I\u2019d like to see him fully live up to his image \u2013 one of the best to ever play the game.<\/p>\n

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