Happy 26th Birthday Lamarcus Aldridge!

[SlyPokerDog]

May you make the all star team and get out of the 1st round of the playoffs this year.

 

[PapaG]

LMA is 26? Doesn't that mean he is over the hill and will never get better?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

LMA is 26? Doesn't that mean he is over the hill and will never get better?

He's half as old as Roy's knees.

 

[HailBlazers]

Happy Birthday LMA, this is your Team! Embrace it this year big man.

and get out of the 1st round of the playoffs this year.

WCF or bust. If you don't start aiming higher your never gonna come close to your mark.

LMA is 26? Doesn't that mean he is over the hill and will never get better?

Dirk is 33 at the top of his game, LMA still has a long ways to go to reach the top of his.

 

[Draco]

LMA is 26? Doesn't that mean he is over the hill and will never get better?

I think its really hard to tell where some players will drop off. Wilt had an enormous drop off in production in his late 20's, while other players hit their peak around 31. I think LaMarcus could have some great years ahead but we shouldn't assume he will always make incremental improvements.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Wilt also played 48 minutes a game every game... it's minutes, not age. Plus his dropoff in production was only points; he kept rebounding at an insane clip and started getting assists. At 31, he averaged only 24.3 points, but also 23.8 rebounds and 8.6 assists.

 

[BBert]

Wilt also played 48 minutes a game every game... it's minutes, not age. Plus his dropoff in production was only points; he kept rebounding at an insane clip and started getting assists. At 31, he averaged only 24.3 points, but also 23.8 rebounds and 8.6 assists.

"Only?"

 

[jlprk]

While Chamberlain scored big, Russell won all the championships, by having his teammates do the scoring while Russell did the defense and rebounding.

Observing this, coaches learned that the hub of a wheel shouldn't hit the road; it should enable the rim around it to do so. This is still the conception of how a center should play.

So by the end of the 1960s decade, Chamberlain's coaches changed his style to emphasize scoring less. Near the end of his career, former Celtic Bill Sharman coached the Lakers to 33 wins in a row by having Wilt average only 13 ppg.

My point is that his scoring decrease was caused by a change in the experts' philosophy (conventional wisdom), not by a dropoff in his abilities.

 

[HailBlazers]

LMA Birthday Tweets! and then some

If you in Dallas come out to Vault night club for my bday tonight !!

Dallas feels like Vegas right now !

wessywes2 @aldridge_12 happy birthday. What you buy yourself? An island?

Who said it doesn't rain in Portland in the summer?! Lol

man I hope our #1 man is not in town during this lame a$$ July! waay to represent no summer Oregon

 

[BlazerCaravan]

My point is that his scoring decrease was caused by a change in the experts' philosophy (conventional wisdom), not by a dropoff in his abilities.

Good point. What an incredible player he was.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

"Only?"

It was 50% of his best season's average.