LeBron has been in many clutch situations throughout his storied 21-season career and he has spoken about his mindset in those last crucial minutes during an NBA game.
“What’s going on in my head? Like you said it’s in slow motion, I slow it down as well. It’s just about trying to be patient, not try to be over-exertive or try to pre-determine what I’m going to do. It’s just kind of read and react. Even with the clock going 9, 8, 7, 6. If you look at a stopwatch, those seconds are ticking, like they’re going fast. But for some odd reason on the basketball court for myself, when the time looks like it’s going fast it’s actually slowing down for me. So I’m able to just slow it down and be able to see what’s going on on the floor,” James said.
He continued, “Will that always result in a make? No, I wish. I wish it would go in every single time, but I try to put myself in position that I make the right play or come home for the team every single time. That just comes with experience, the best teacher in life is experience and the more and more you get put in those opportunities and those moments, the better off you’ll be.”
LeBron has made plenty of clutch shots in his career.
Who could forget during the 2020-21 season in the play-in tournament, where the Lakers legend sank a go-ahead triple, but admitted afterwards he could see “three rims”.
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“After Draymond’s finger to the eye, I was literally seeing three rims out there,” James said at the time. “So I just shot at the middle one. And I was able to, through the grace of the man above, I was able to knock it down.”
