Top 3 reasons Lebron James is overrated

I am going to get screamed at for this and I don't care.

1. ATO ( Assist to Turnover ratio) even if you take his career high in assist and low in turnovers his ATO is still 2.6 his actual lifetime number is 2.03 that is way to low. not to mention the fact that in last years playoffs Lebron had the 6 or more turn overs several times. And before you say he has the ball in his hand a lot and so on, having 6 or more turnovers a game in the playoffs is just unacceptable. The fact is that a lot of prime time ball handlers have high ato, but they actually make their team mates better. When it has counted Lebron has not put his team in the best position to win. He routinely passes up the big shots and does not put his teammates in repetitive positions to be successful. I can handle a higher ato if you assist the ball at a high number. Deron Williams assists at an 8.7 lifetime number, Chris Paul's number are 9.9. These type of assit numbers indicate a much higher rate of putting teammates in a position score. Lebron's lifetime number is 6.7. His overall assists and ATO is not acceptable for a "all time great" Magic assisted at 11.9 per game and Stockton at 10.5 per game.

2. Bron is a lifetime low 70 % free throw shooter (73.8% to be exact) with one season where he shot 69.8 %. Again this number is far to low. You cant be a prime time perimeter player and not make 80% or better from the line.

3. He is an overrated defender. For the proclaimed king of the chase down block and for being as big as he is Bron averages only 0.9 blocks for his career, with his highest total being 1.1.(Which he accomplished twice) Lebron is also noted as a great on ball defender and a good passing lane guy. However, his lifetime steals number is 1.8 steals a game with a high of 2.2 in his sophomore season. He has not come close to that since. as a matter of comparison Dwade's lifetime numbers in these categories 1.8 steals per game with a career high of 2.2 teals per game. (Wade has been 0ver 2 three times) In blocks per game, Wade has a career average of 1.0 with a high of 1.3 blocks per game with all but two seasons above 1 block per game.(his rokie year and his injury shortened year) Keep in mind that Wade is 4 inches shorter then Lebron and plays at the guard spot and is frequently not in defensive position near the rim.


It's not that Lebron is not a great player. Because he is, but Lebron is just woefully inconsistent. He can go off fo 55 with a triple double one night and then not break 25 the next. Until he fixes his averages in the above categories and becomes a more consistent leader He should not be considered A) an all time great, or B) a perenial MVP candidate when there are atleas a dozen other viable candidates. If Lebron did not come in to the league with all of the hype he did, would he be considered the great all time player that he is, ith the numbers that he has?

Being Attacked

I have know for weeks that I need to be at this open house on March 28th, a Saturday. Having come home from Bible college in Australia and leaving my Fiance behind because there were just some things God required I do alone I left the Great Southland of the Holy Spirit. From the time I set out to leave there has been nothing but havoc and heartache. While there were trials with airlines and tickets being canceled and credit cards being wrongly charged, the real attacks happened when I set foot on American soil once more. The enemy of my soul has always used my family to get to me, however I Was determined that after two years in Australia I would come back a changed man. And I am, I am more confident, less prone to commit the same old stupid sins and am trusting God more than I ever have. The attacks however did not cease with my family. Two days before I was scheduled attend this open house for a University in New York, I started to feel ill, like I was coming down with fever. Even though I was not showing any of the usual signs or symptoms outwardly, inwardly it sure felt like I was. Then in the middle of the night before the open house, I awoke, not knowing where I was. I felt as if I was in some age old cabin or campsite in the middle of the woods with no cell connection or way to contact the outside world. In this drunken of spiritual confusion, I started to feel a giant wait on my back neck and shoulders, as if some very large creature was grabbing or jumping on me and trying to crush the life out of me. It would last for maybe 30 seconds and then relent, and then start again. At first I cried out to God in my spirit to make this attack relent, but nothing changed. After realizing that this method of defense was having zero effect, I tried to cry out to my Jesus aloud, only to find that I could not speak (now anyone who really knows me would say that this is the greater attack that demons don't scare me so much as not being able to speak). For the next minute or two not matter how hard I tried, I could not make any sound with my voice. Eventually I set in my mind that God would not let me go out like this and was eventually able to rebuke what was coming against me in Jesus name. The attack did not relent immediately, I had to persist crying out to Jesus for a few minutes. When I sensed that the attack had ceased in that form I felt the sickness grow stronger, and then a sharp pain shooting through both of my knees. I rebuked that attack and then proceeded to ask God to mobilize such a fierce and great number of warring angels to surround me and my family that it would be like nothing the Devil had ever seen before. I then asked him for a mighty hedge of protection as well. It was only then that I sensed that not only had the attack abated, but that the demonic presence had also fled trembling at the mighty name of Jesus. I had a persistent shortness of breath that lingered for maybe 20 minutes longer or so but as I continued to believe in God  that left as well. I know that Satan will be back, but I will stand ready, for I know that God is with me and will never leave my side. That he is the one doing the fighting not I. As A Christian we can do anything in this world if we simply rest in God and trust him to provide whatever we need and he will always come through exactly when we need him to.

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Changing

How important is it to be able to change? We know that we can't change people. But how long should we look the other way when people we love and care about are destroying themselves and those around them.  Do we say nothing and allow our loved ones to slide into a pit of destruction and despair or de we say something and the risk of burning the relationship? I know in my life change has been hard and has often come when I least expect it. But how do you deal with people that have refused to change for over 20 years. As a Christian, how can we react, how can we pray, how can we advise or council people? Is it even possible for people to change with out God?

My life has proven to be impossible with out God directing and redirecting my course. Some might wonder what it is like to live without God, I don't have to as the first 17 and a half years of my life I lived without a personal relationship with my creator. To change without the empowering of the Holy Spirit to not only live life with direction with a purpose, but to also change the elements of my personality and character was almost impossible. Some may say that it is completely impossible to change with out God. I would argue that, that is not always true. There are times in life that we change out of experience or need. I have seen it my own life and in the lives of others. The real issue is that we can not change the big ticket issues, our ability to influence impact and change our surroundings.

In a world full of pain, broken people and misplaced trust is not the ability to change our surroundings the most important thing we can bring to a broken and hurting world. Sure we can bring money, and good intentions. We can bring programs and scriptures. And while scriptures do have the power to transform lives, it is the people who lead by example, lead by living the scriptures who truly change lives, change families, change communities and change the world.

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Wondering

God is leading me down a winding road which I don't really understand all I really know is that I don't know yet...but I am sure that whereever I am headed it is for something amazing. and that I will be better for it.

I know God is real and that he hasa real plan for my life. And while I don't always understand the why or even the how. I know God, and I understand him enough to belive in him. Because he first believed in me. He has never given up on me no matter how bad I screw things up. He saved me and more than that he loves me and has always been my friend...if nothing else I owe it to him to never give up on him. If I did what kind of a reflection--what kind of image of God would I be

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