Kryptonite

It wasn't a good night for Superman.
Dwight Howard is great for two reasons.  He is great at efficient inside scoring and he blocks shots like a maniac.  Sure he has no jumper, sure his free throws sometimes make Shaq look like Ted St. Martin.  His weaknesses don't overcome his massive strengths.
Except last night.
Magic Heat is a big matchup.  The Heat are a title contender.  The Magic are an alleged title contender (I don't buy it.  A team paying Gilbert Arenas 80 million to remind us all of what happens when you take a guy with talent but no maturity and a 40 year old body despite being only 29 and make him ridiculously rich simply because every team has to be making somebody ridiculously rich.  Oh yeah, and he comes off the bench.  Right, title contender.)  The two teams were 1-1 against each other going in.  Coming out, it was clear who the East leading Celtics really needed to worry about.
Prior to the game Dwight Howard threw chalk in the air.  He took photos of his teammates with an invisible camera.  He danced around.  You know, stuff Lebron used to do.  Funny since Lebron was there.  James says he didn't see it.  Right, and Shaq didn't mean to push Charles Barkley.  Whatever.
Something made Lebron score 51 points.  He decided to drop in three pointers in peoples faces like he thought he was Reggie Miller for some reason.  Something inspired him to rack up points faster than Tosh.O can offend your grandmother.
You know what I think?  I think he saw Howard mimicking the things he used to do in Cleveland and thought, "Hey maybe since he's doing my pregame from Cleveland, I'll show him my game from Cleveland."  You know, when he embarrassed opponents so often it wasn't even interesting anymore.  Oh yeah, that Lebron.  The one that never really went away.
Meanwhile Howard had 17 points and 16 rebounds.  Hey, that's not bad right?  Oh but he took 13 shots to get those 17 points.  Oh but he was 3 of 13 from the line.  Oh he didn't block a single shot.  Oh.
Keep dancing Superman.  Does this make Lebron Lex Luther?  Nah, just a better basketball player.  Yeah, I said it.