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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 4371051, member: 2524"] Yeah, and that's why I wasn't an early commenter. We don't know the purpose of the scrimmage, what the coaches were asking him to do, and we don't know the criteria used to select the plays in the video. But short shot clocks is not the reason for the lack of passes. In the first play the ball is in James's hand from 0:00 to 0:16 and never leaves it -- even with a teammate wide open at the 3 point line with a clean passing lane and hands up waiting for the pass from 0:10 to 0:16; then 0:20 to 0:26 and a shot; then 0:30 to 0:37 and a shot - now admittedly he made a pass at 0:29 and everyone else is standing around in this one like James is being asked to go one-on-one; in the last one he gets the ball at 0:49 and shoots at 0:57. That's 6, 7, 8, and 16 seconds with the ball in his hand and no passes. That's not how team basketball is generally played, even with no shot clock. It does seem like they are trying to develop his scoring and asked him to focus on that. But then are they going to play him if that is all he is? [/QUOTE]