If LeBron James can’t jump off a high dive, how is he going to be able to lead the Miami Heat to an NBA championship? James needed to be coaxed off by hundreds of cheering fans; in a basketball game, he’s going to be booed by thousands when he’s thinking about shooting. 

And in the fourth quarter, he won’t shoot because he didn’t do it in the 2011 NBA Finals and he couldn’t do it in Barcelona on the high dive, so he won’t do it when the lockout finally ends. 

OK, not really. LeBron’s freezing up on the high dive means absolutely nothing basketball wise; it just shows he’s a little afraid of heights. As James showed in the Finals repeatedly, opponents should be more terrified when the Akron Hammer takes flight than LeBron himself; right,  Ian Mahinmi,  Tyson Chandler and  Jason Kidd?

Now, I could be asking why in the world James is chilling in Barcelona. He just got done telling Hoops Hype that he went into a depression after the loss to the Dallas Mavericks, saying that the week after was the worst of his life and that he did absolutely nothing. Of course, no one expected James to live in the gym, but he is getting some impressive work done this offseason.

Yahoo! reported in early August that LeBron has been taking post lessons from Hakeem Olajuwon, the same legend that Kobe Bryant also went to for help in years past.  Besides becoming shy in crunch time, James’ biggest weakness has been his post game; he couldn’t even take a 38-year-old Jason Kidd in the post this past June. Eliminate that weakness, and the man called by many to be the best all-around player in the game just got more well-rounded.

With the current progress on the NBA’s new CBA, James has time to jump off that high dive about  17 thousand more times before he actually has to get back in the gym.

source: David Daniels -Bleacherreport