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On the bright side, LMA now has an all-time high PER of 24.05 - 9th in the league and equal to Roy's best for a season.
 
There's no doubt that LMA is an All-Star. I still think we need a guard like Deron Williams or Chris Paul to take things to the next level.
 
God damn. You put some shooters and more intelligent players next to this guy and that number will only get higher. He's making some awesome reads out of double teams, but his teammates are just screwing up basic plays.
 
Natebishop3 said:
There's no doubt that LMA is an All-Star. I still think we need a guard like Deron Williams or Chris Paul to take things to the next level.
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I think that LMA has got to start putting in some serious recruiting work at all-star weekend. I am to the point that I am willing to do just about whatever it takes to get Deron. I almost willing to "rent" him with the hopes that the team and city and can sell him on resigning. And if we could somehow get Williams then it might be a heck of a lot easier to get a third star player to want to play with those two. The better that LMA gets the more I feel like we are wasting him and wasting time.
 
Boise Blazer said:
I think that LMA has got to start putting in some serious recruiting work at all-star weekend. I am to the point that I am willing to do just about whatever it takes to get Deron. I almost willing to "rent" him with the hopes that the team and city and can sell him on resigning. And if we could somehow get Williams then it might be a heck of a lot easier to get a third star player to want to play with those two. The better that LMA gets the more I feel like we are wasting him and wasting time.
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if deron is available even to rent it will be tough for the blazers to make an offer competetive with what other teams will offer. maybe batum + ewill + a future #1 would do it, but blazer brass would never take a gamble that large.
 
Who will be LA's teammates at all star break that he can get close with? If Deron were his teammate, then I could see him trying to recruit, but being in different locker rooms/practices/etc, I don't see it happening.

Maybe he can try to influence Nash if he makes the team. But I see LA bonding with other first time guys, and there really aren't any other ones outside of Bynum this year. And I don't think LA likes Bynum.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Who will be LA's teammates at all star break that he can get close with? If Deron were his teammate, then I could see him trying to recruit, but being in different locker rooms/practices/etc, I don't see it happening.

Maybe he can try to influence Nash if he makes the team. But I see LA bonding with other first time guys, and there really aren't any other ones outside of Bynum this year. And I don't think LA likes Bynum.
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I would think that they would run in enough of the same circles to at least try but its all wishful thinking.
 
Deron Williams should have been a Blazer in the first damn place. Getting him here will serve to realign the stars in their proper order in the universe. And it will be good.
 
I hate to break it to people, but Deron coming here is very, very unlikely. Teams are going to have more capspace than the Blazers this summer and historically this is not exactly a destination city. Love it or hate it, Portland is an NBA backwater that plays most of their games when 70% of the nation has gone to bed. That's a tough sell.

This summer our best bet is trading players into our cap-space and hoping to hit in the draft and then using the secondary and tertiary free agent market for role-players.
 
magnifier661 said:
Nash actually seems obtainable. Why not make a run at him?
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If we can do it without giving up Batum I am just about frustrated enough to do it for no other reason that to enjoy half a season of run and fun and deal with the consequences later.
 
Boise Blazer said:
If we can do it without giving up Batum I am just about frustrated enough to do it for no other reason that to enjoy half a season of run and fun and deal with the consequences later.
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I think we could by offering Matthews, Felton and armon Johnson.

We could have Nolan smith back up point, Crawford back up 2 an Batum start at sg; while playing reserve minutes at 3 as well. Also Nash would make everyone better. You think teams will leave Nash wide open to double Aldridge? I don't think so
 
magnifier661 said:
I think we could by offering Matthews, Felton and armon Johnson.

We could have Nolan smith back up point, Crawford back up 2 an Batum start at sg; while playing reserve minutes at 3 as well. Also Nash would make everyone better. You think teams will leave Nash wide open to double Aldridge? I don't think so
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I totally agree. Lately every time I see Felton chuck up a three I think how lovely that would be if it were Nash. That one thing alone would make this team sooooo much better. Nevermind the lobs to LMA and how much more and better we could run.
 
Boise Blazer said:
I totally agree. Lately every time I see Felton chuck up a three I think how lovely that would be if it were Nash. That one thing alone would make this team sooooo much better. Nevermind the lobs to LMA and how much more and better we could run.
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Yeah and his leadership. The dude was two time MVP for a reason. The guy gets it and his bbiq is off the charts. Age isn't an issue when you have so much up top. We've learned that with miller. Sometimes I think about how much different this team would be with miller running point instead of Felton.
 
LMA is overrated and isn't even the best player on the team. :)
 
magnifier661 said:
Yeah and his leadership. The dude was two time MVP for a reason. The guy gets it and his bbiq is off the charts. Age isn't an issue when you have so much up top. We've learned that with miller. Sometimes I think about how much different this team would be with miller running point instead of Felton.
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Age also isn't an issue because we'll be blowing out teams by halftime and Nash can get all the rest he wants. PHX just needs to cooperate and let him go.
 
All-NBA player brought down by an awful supporting cast, lulz.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Age also isn't an issue because we'll be blowing out teams by halftime and Nash can get all the rest he wants. PHX just needs to cooperate and let him go.
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Hopefully they will. Even if we could get 1 title from the move; it's better than nothing.
 
One aspect that hasn't gotten any talk this season is Aldridge's post defense. Maybe part of it is knowing you've got an elite shot blocker/rebounder at center, but he just seems to be a much, much improved post defender. It's getting to the point where I think of him like I used to Sheed--If a guy isn't one of the very elite post scorers, he's not scaring anybody by trying to back down LA. More often than not he's just going to make himself look silly.

Just looking at games played so far against teams with strong post scorers, other than the Lakers nobody is really looking that special against our front court.

The numbers prove that out, too. A 98 Drtg is a full 9 points better than his best prior season.
 
mook said:
One aspect that hasn't gotten any talk this season is Aldridge's post defense. Maybe part of it is knowing you've got an elite shot blocker/rebounder at center, but he just seems to be a much, much improved post defender. It's getting to the point where I think of him like I used to Sheed--If a guy isn't one of the very elite post scorers, he's not scaring anybody by trying to back down LA. More often than not he's just going to make himself look silly.

Just looking at games played so far against teams with strong post scorers, other than the Lakers nobody is really looking that special against our front court.

The numbers prove that out, too. A 98 Drtg is a full 9 points better than his best prior season.
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I agree. But on the flip side, I feel his help defense has dropped a bit. Or he's not just giving as much effort on help.
 
Its such a shame that our guys are going threw shooting slumps. If they were knocking down 3's it opens him up and suddenly he puts up 10 straight points because they can no longer double him and thats when our Defense starts looking insane is when were scoring with ease. Our stupid D is great when were scoring bad when were not, i'd like some Constancy somewhere lol
 
jlprk said:
A less talented PF with more fire would be a better player.
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Yeah, and a more talented player with more fire would be better still, but the fact of the matter is there aren't a lot of better players in the NBA right now, let alone a lot of better power forwards, than LaMarcus Aldridge.

Aldridge is:

3rd in the league in Field Goals Made

11th in the League in Free Throws Made

10th in the League in Offensive Rebounds

17th in the League in Total Rebounds

5th in the League in Total Points

7th in the League in Points per Game

9th in the League in PER

8th in the League in Offensive Win Shares

9th in the League in Defensive Win Share

Note: Aldridge is the ONLY player in the entire NBA that is top 10 in both Offensive and Defensive Win Shares

3rd in the League in Total Win Shares - ahead of Derrick Rose, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant

9th in the League in WS/48

Based on his production to date, there is no question LaMarcus Aldridge deserves to be an all star this season. Based on his production, you could even make a very convincing argument that he's one of the top 10 players in the entire league right now. There are a few players (very few) who score more, some players who rebound more, a few who play better defense, but there are VERY, VERY few that do all of these things better than LaMarcus Aldridge. Aldridge has become a very complete player. You can say he lacks "fire" all you want, but you can't argue with, or dismiss his production.

BNM
 
Some more advanced stats for LaMarcus Aldridge from 82games.com:

Production:
Own = 22.8
Opponent: 14.0
Net +8.8

On Court/Off Court:
On Court +9.5
Off Court - 9.5
Net On/Off Court: 19.0

Simple Rating: 12.2

These stats haven't been updated since 1/29 and are bound to go up as Aldridge's PER has now risen from 22.8 to 24.0.

82games.com does not have sortable league wide stats for the current season, but to put this in perspective for the 2010-11 season there were only three players in the entire league with a simple rating higher than Aldridge's current 12.2. Those players were Dwight Howard, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.

LaMarcus Aldridge is a bonafide superstar at this point and a top 10 player in the league. I can't imagine why anyone would argue otherwise. He is not this team's problem, it is the exceptionally weak play and poor shooting of our guards. Imagine how much more effective Aldridge would be if other teams had to actually guard the perimeter.

BNM
 
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