I think that's it exactly. He needs to break out of his natural tendency to want to dribble right at people. It was never fair though for people to try to stick him with the "savior" tag. That is much Freddie Adu about nothing.
The true saviors of U.S. soccer are (from back to front) Howard, Onyewu, Bradley, Feilhaber, Donovan, Altidore.