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Interested and Quick in the same sentence......... No thanks.
Felt it deserved its own thread: LMA, now THAT's how you play basketball
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Interested and Quick in the same sentence......... No thanks.
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So........
LA isn't playing the best basketball of his career?
Nate doesn't want the offense to go through LA?
Brandon isn't trying to figure out how to fit in, but instead he is jealous?
Rudy isn't playing the best basketball of his career?
That is what Quick said, so none of that is true because he is so full of shit. Wow, things are worse than I thought.....they are Mixum bad
Source?
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I'm a little brain-addled today; what did Quick say?
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John Lund asked Quick in his interview what he thought Brandon was thinking on the bench last night when the team was having so much fun without him. Quick said Brandon was thinking how to fit in with these guys. Lund asked if he thought it was truly that or if Brandon was a little jealous, and Quick said no, he is thinking how he can fit in.
HCP said Quick is full of shit, so Brandon really must be super jealous and hate that the team is doing well without him
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Said Nate wants the ball to go through LA more. Thinks LA and Rudy are playing the best basketball of their careers. Thinks the team needs to tell brandon to come off the bench, and not ask him. Said Cho, Jensen and Dr Roberts were huddled in the hallway last night, presumably talking about Brandon who had been examined by Dr Roberts earlier. Said the team was having fun because of Patty Mills. his playing time has only helped that. Rudy has been telling anyone that will listen that he can be more than a spot up shooter, and is now getting that chance.
Might have been a bit more, but that was the jist of it. None of it true however according to those in the know
Has anyone thought of perhaps selling high on Aldridge? If he sustains this for the next couple months teams could coming calling wanting to trade for him. I know he's playing great but realistically I don't expect him to keep it up. He's done it against 3 terrible teams with terrible frontlines and I just don't buy it will continue when he plays against the tougher teams in the league.
So...maybe sell high on Aldridge? It would depend on what you'd get in return, but it's an interesting idea to think about if in the end you believe he'll always be that 18/8 guy that's a little soft.
So...maybe sell high on Aldridge? It would depend on what you'd get in return, but it's an interesting idea to think about if in the end you believe he'll always be that 18/8 guy that's a little soft.
I'd probably still keep him as well as I've never been one to be so highly critical of him like a lot of others here. The question is more for those that are so highly critical of him saying he's soft/sucks/overpaid/etc.
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But if he keeps it up for another couple of months as you hypothesize for your question, then he won't have just done it against 3 terrible teams with terrible front lines. At that point, there's much more reason to believe that he may keep it up long-term.
They'll play plenty of terrible teams over that stretch I'm sure so his numbers could still be way up. He could still dominate the bad teams while being more 'normal' against the better ones. In the end his averages would still be up and teams could bite.
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I suspect teams' scouts pay at least as much attention to other players in the league as fans of the team in question. Certainly if I were in charge of a team considering a big offer for a guy like Aldridge, I'd want to look at (or have my scouts look at) the game tape for the period of his great play with special emphasis on the better defensive teams (both better overall defenses and better interior defenses). I don't know how teams actually function internally, but that seems like common sense to me.
It would be but not only do some teams have terrible scouts/don't scout as well as others, they also as an organization could be prone to making stupid decisions like giving Travis Outlaw 5/35. A lot of it boils down to how desperate/impatient some teams are and that can play a big factor. Some team can can look at their own roster and say they're a PF away from contending and convince themselves Aldridge is that piece because it sounds good and then they act on it.
A lot of dumb decisions are regularly made in the NBA.
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