Then in Game 4 it was a meltdown. He had 7 turnovers and shot poorly. Game 5 was even worse (15 points on 3-of-15 shooting). Game 6 was okay, but still below par (8-of-21 shooting, 9 turnovers).

He didn’t shoot over 40% from the field after Game 3. Now that may have been the elbow injury. Who knows? But there was definitely a let down, and my first thought when I saw those games was that it was mental. I never saw that happen with Jordan.

I kind of look at LeBron’s series last year against Boston in a similar way that I look at what the Heat did to Rose this year. Really good team defense made it tough for the star player. Boston was a better team than last year’s Cavs. The only Cavalier who could have started for Boston was LeBron, and nobody else was even close. It just wasn’t a fair fight.

Still, what LeBron did in the playoffs last year, melting down like that against Boston for reasons we don’t know yet. That was unforgivable. You can’t be an all-time great and have a series like that. That was ridiculous.

Also, Jordan’s sweeps came at the hands of the mid-80s Celtics. Let’s face it. The Bulls were ill-equipped to handle that team. They just didn’t have the components to compete with the Celtics on the interior. Not at all a fault of Jordan’s.