LeBron James calls LaMarcus Aldridge the "biggest snub in All-Star history."

[HailBlazers]

And that was before the game and before LMA dominated the Heat last night!



We needed another thread regarding King James, since we toppled the Heat.

 

[jlprk]

Aldridge started playing at a high level much too late to be noticed. A half-month or month of good showings didn't entitle him to the All-Star Game. If he keeps it up, he'll get in next time.

Speaking of the All-Star Game, Gerald Wallace sure gets a lot of credit for having made it one time. When someone makes it in once, but doesn't make a habit of it, it may have been an error, like Magloire.

 

[e_blazer]

Aldridge started playing at a high level much too late to be noticed. A half-month or month of good showings didn't entitle him to the All-Star Game. If he keeps it up, he'll get in next time.

Speaking of the All-Star Game, Gerald Wallace sure gets a lot of credit for having made it one time. When someone makes it in once, but doesn't make a habit of it, it may have been an error, like Magloire.

Or that they played on a mediocre team in a small market city, like, well, Wallace.

 

[HailBlazers]

Aldridge started playing at a high level much too late to be noticed.

Maybe so, but even after dominating Bosh and the Heat last night he got no notice. So it goes on the NBA island of the NW. I sure hope another team moves up here ASAP,three LA teams is Ridiculous.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

I think its time we all move on and forget about LMA being snubbed. Lets focus our attention on the Most Improved award or Playoff MVP.

Bosh has got to be one of the most over paid players in the league.

 

[STOMP]

what a jerk that LaBron is

I'm sticking with my prediction that LA makes an All-NBA team this year

STOMP

 

[MIXUM]

la got screwed no doubt

 

[maxiep]

And that was before the game and before LMA dominated the Heat last night!



We needed another thread regarding King James, since we toppled the Heat.

To me it read: "This is my attempt to get Aldridge to force a trade here since Bosh turned into Cherokee Parks"

 

[Masbee]

Aldridge started playing at a high level much too late to be noticed. A half-month or month of good showings didn't entitle him to the All-Star Game. If he keeps it up, he'll get in next time.

Yet one-half a season of putting up big numbers on a BAD BAD BAD team is deserving of the slot in Aldridge's place?

Regardless of everyone saying Aldridge didn't "deserve" to be an All-Star, Love should not have got named over him at the time. Losers shouldn't play in the All-Star game.

 

[Natebishop3]

I don't know if he's the biggest of all-time, but he's definitely one of the biggest snubs.

 

[jlprk]

Love had half a season of big numbers on a bad team. Then all star voting occurred. A couple of weeks before voting ended, Aldridge began getting big numbers on a middle team. Too late.

No, Love was not more deserving, but he was more noticeable, because there was enough lead time. Aldridge was not snubbed, but Roy may have been. If an injured Yao (or Magic after he retired from HIV) can be voted in, then Roy could have been, too.

 

[DUB]

Why does everyone always turn this into LA v Love?

Duncan shouldn't have even been there.

 

[Minstrel]

Love had half a season of big numbers on a bad team. Then all star voting occurred. A couple of weeks before voting ended, Aldridge began getting big numbers on a middle team. Too late.

All-Star voting began around the 41 game mark? Mid-December was a couple weeks before voting ended?

I think you have the All-Star voting calendar wrong, because your timeline has voting ending before it begins.

 

[Spud147]

Love had half a season of big numbers on a bad team. Then all star voting occurred. A couple of weeks before voting ended, Aldridge began getting big numbers on a middle team. Too late.

No, Love was not more deserving, but he was more noticeable, because there was enough lead time. Aldridge was not snubbed, but Roy may have been. If an injured Yao (or Magic after he retired from HIV) can be voted in, then Roy could have been, too.

I didn't think Roy had ever been voted in by the fans like Magic and Yao. I think he's always been a coaches choice. Am I imagining that? Yes, voting in Magic and Yao is a joke but we always get stupid starter picks coming out of the fan vote.

 

[tlongII]

All-Star voting began around the 41 game mark? Mid-December was a couple weeks before voting ended?

I think you have the All-Star voting calendar wrong, because your timeline has voting ending before it begins.

It wasn't about "fan voting" anyway. The coaches pick the reserves and they had until just a few days before the All Star break. And then of course Stern got to pick a replacement. LaMarcus was definitely a huge snub!

 

[Boob-No-More]

Love had half a season of big numbers on a bad team. Then all star voting occurred. A couple of weeks before voting ended, Aldridge began getting big numbers on a middle team. Too late.

Two corrections, Aldridge started putting up big numbers on 12/15 - over two months before the all-star game.

This has nothing to do with fan voting, or when the voting ended. Love was selected as a replacement player by David Stern in early February. By then, Aldridge had been putting up big numbers - and leading his team to wins, for a little under two months. That's what makes this a big snub. Aldridge getting overlooked by the fans is to be expected. Aldridge getting overlooked by the coaches was a snub, Getting overlooked by Stern was a marketing choice. Stern desperately wants a new white American superstar - and until he gets one, Kevin Love will have to do.

BNM

 

[Boob-No-More]

It wasn't about "fan voting" anyway. The coaches pick the reserves and they had until just a few days before the All Star break. And then of course Stern got to pick a replacement. LaMarcus was definitely a huge snub!

Crap, beat me to the punch by one minute.

BNM

 

[mgb]

I think the main thing is he didn't do it all year. Why go with a player that had done well for part of the season compare to a player that has done it all season? Of course Duncan is another matter.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Maybe so, but even after dominating Bosh and the Heat last night he got no notice. So it goes on the NBA island of the NW. I sure hope another team moves up here ASAP,three LA teams is Ridiculous.

Did you watch NBA TV after the Blazers beat the Heat last night? Rick Kamla, Kevin McHale and Chris Webber were ALL heaping praise on LaMarcus, then they had him on for an interview, and continued to give him glowing praise after the interview. It was pretty much a 20 minute LaMarcus love fest. Aldridge is definitely starting to get noticed in the national media, especially be people who actually watch the games.

Winning POTM helps. And, if he finishes the year starting, he should be a favorite to win Most Improved.

BNM

 

[mgb]

Did you watch NBA TV after the Blazers beat the Heat last night? Rick Kamla, Kevin McHale and Chris Webber were ALL heaping praise on LaMarcus, then they had him on for an interview, and continued to give him glowing praise after the interview. It was pretty much a 20 minute LaMarcus love fest. Aldridge is definitely starting to get noticed in the national media, especially be people who actually watch the games.

Winning POTM helps. And, if he finishes the year starting, he should be a favorite to win Most Improved.

BNM

Funny, I just watched a recording of that. I liked the LA interview. Nice they had him explain the change and his work this off season and the reason for it. Good interview.

 

[jlprk]

All-Star voting began around the 41 game mark? Mid-December was a couple weeks before voting ended? I think you have the All-Star voting calendar wrong, because your timeline has voting ending before it begins.

Voting ended Jan. 23. You say he started looking great one month earlier. How does this disprove my statement that nationwide voters didn't have time to notice him?

I figured out his mpg, but it was inconclusive.

37.3 Oct
39.7 Nov
35.2 Dec 1-14
40.3 Dec 15-30
40.6 Jan
42.0 Feb
41.7 Mar

 

[Masbee]

Why does everyone always turn this into LA v Love?

Duncan shouldn't have even been there.

Wrong. Duncan is a Winner. Best record in West. Winners belong.

The Big Pretender of the West All-Star Team (aside from the Yao thing, but he was replaced) was:

Carmello Anthony. Dude sucked balls for much of the first half of the season. Didn't anybody notice?

 

[Minstrel]

Voting ended Jan. 23. You say he started looking great one month earlier. How does this disprove my statement that nationwide voters didn't have time to notice him?

It wasn't aimed at disproving that. Just on your claim that he only played well for two weeks before voting ended, which undersells it by about three weeks.

 

[Spud147]

Wrong. Duncan is a Winner. Best record in West. Winners belong.

The Big Pretender of the West All-Star Team (aside from the Yao thing, but he was replaced) was:

Carmello Anthony. Dude sucked balls for much of the first half of the season. Didn't anybody notice?

No I DID NOT notice him sucking balls... I'm not allowed to look at those kind of magazines until I'm over 18.

 

[Masbee]

Voting ended Jan. 23. You say he started looking great one month earlier. How does this disprove my statement that nationwide voters didn't have time to notice him?

I figured out his mpg, but it was inconclusive.

37.3 Oct
39.7 Nov
35.2 Dec 1-14
40.3 Dec 15-30
40.6 Jan
42.0 Feb
41.7 Mar

Voting doesn't matter.

Voting doesn't matter.

Voting doesn't matter.

Stern picked the replacment just before the All-Star game.

Thus, Stern picked a dude putting up monster numbers on a very, very crappy team that barely wins any games, over the team MVP, and recently promoted #1 offensive option after the superstar goes out with injury on a team winning lots of games who is right in the thick of the playoff hunt.

Stern has no fucking excuse other than his typical BULLSHIT.

When it suits him he has picked a 3rd or even 4th player on a winning team, even though said player has medicore stats. When it suits him, as now, he picks a stat whore on one the very worst teams in the NBA.

 

[Masbee]

No I DID NOT notice him sucking balls... I'm not allowed to look at those kind of magazines until I'm over 18.

You don't like the sportsbar atmosphere in the language?

 

[Draco]

Did you watch NBA TV after the Blazers beat the Heat last night? Rick Kamla, Kevin McHale and Chris Webber were ALL heaping praise on LaMarcus, then they had him on for an interview, and continued to give him glowing praise after the interview. It was pretty much a 20 minute LaMarcus love fest. Aldridge is definitely starting to get noticed in the national media, especially be people who actually watch the games.

Winning POTM helps. And, if he finishes the year starting, he should be a favorite to win Most Improved.

BNM

I wonder if the All-star snub will help him get a few extra votes for MIP?

 

[Spud147]

You don't like the sportsbar atmosphere in the language?

Exactly, I'm a lady you know... I've got a butt load of class and refinement.

 

[B-Roy]

I wonder if the All-star snub will help him get a few extra votes for MIP?

Actually, I'd say he's more likely to be all-NBA 3rd team at this moment. This is how I see things at the moment.

1st
Kobe
Rose
James
Durant
Howard

2nd
Westbrook
Wade
Melo
Dirk
Amare

3rd
Paul
Ginobili
Aldridge
Gasol
Horford

 

[jlprk]

Just on your claim that he only played well for two weeks before voting ended, which undersells it by about three weeks.

Aldridge started playing at a high level much too late to be noticed. A half-month or month of good showings didn't entitle him to the All-Star Game.

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