LMA... What would you rather have?

[magnifier661]

Ah of course, the "he's not working hard enough" routine.



You think there's actually a single player in the league that prepares for LMA any differently if he's averaging 22/10 vs. 22/8? the mostly negligible difference between 8 and 10 is something for fantasy basketball dorks to argue over, not teams and players that actually have to play somebody. If you want this team to be great at rebounding and "take great pride in it" (whatever that means?) then you should hope they draft or acquire a guy to pair with him that hoovers boards up and let's LMA focus on being a multi-faceted offensive threat and a guy who can guard 4 and occasionally 5 positions.

Well it seems that you came at me first saying "He wasn't capable of getting 10+ boards" and wanted me to provide proof he's capable. Then I did. Then you say he can't put up 12 boards, then I gave you that. Now you ask why isn't he doing it now and so what?!?!

Sorry Nik, but I think you got this all wrong. Ask the other PF/Cs that get +10 boards a game how meanlingless it is and they will laugh at your face. There is a reason why there are very few players ever able to get 20/10+. I guess we can just "meh" them for their efforts. It is meaningless.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Well it seems that you came at me first saying "He wasn't capable of getting 10+ boards" and wanted me to provide proof he's capable. Then I did. Then you say he can't put up 12 boards, then I gave you that. Now you ask why isn't he doing it now and so what?!?!

Sorry Nik, but I think you got this all wrong. Ask the other PF/Cs that get +10 boards a game how meanlingless it is and they will laugh at your face. There is a reason why there are very few players ever able to get 20/10+. I guess we can just "meh" them for their efforts. It is meaningless.

I said it's improbable given his age, experience and track record and I'm not talking about getting 10+ in a game or even a string of games, I'm talking about averaging that for the whole year. He's just not that guy. And frankly it irritates me when I hear the "he's not working hard enough" complaint. Nobody worked harder on this team last year.

 

[magnifier661]

I said it's improbable given his age, experience and track record and I'm not talking about getting 10+ in a game or even a string of games, I'm talking about averaging that for the whole year. He's just not that guy.

Hey maybe you guys are all right. Maybe it is better that he concentrate mainly on scoring. Maybe just the fan of rebounding in me is getting the better of me. You maybe right as well. I will concede this thread.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I'd rather have a 34-24-36 gal.

Only if she's Five Three.

 

[Draco]

There were SIX players in the entire NBA that averaged double digit rebounds last year. That is a difficult feat and is a stupid goal to expect out of our best offensive player. I want Aldridge to be shooting the ball, not leaving the post to get in position for a putback off a Crawford miss. Right now we are one of the elite rebounding teams in the NBA, it wouldn’t do any good having extra rebounds from our PF. If our team is grabing most of the opponents misses why does it matter which of our player gets the stat?

Wallace and Camby are two of the best rebounding players at their positions, if we have a third player get even more rebounds it would be a bad thing; because that means we are missing a lot more shots and scoring far less points. Having a ton of offensive rebounds isn't necessarly good, it means your team misses a ton of shots. You win NBA games by scoring more then the opposition, not fantazing about your 3rd best rebounding big man hitting some arbitrary metric.

 

[Draco]

Hey maybe you guys are all right. Maybe it is better that he concentrate mainly on scoring. Maybe just the fan of rebounding in me is getting the better of me. You maybe right as well. I will concede this thread.

Well at least you're smarter then Dave Smith!

 

[SantaDora]

I think this league defines superstars by scoring rather than rebounding. So if you want Aldridge to get superstar calls - he needs to score more rather than rebound more.

 

[Draco]

I will say however, there are brief stretches it could be important for Aldridge to rebound, say we play him at center alongside Batum at the 4. Well then it would be critical Aldridge crash the glass. But during normal lineups where Gerald and Camby play extensive minutes, LaMarcus doesn't need to pay any special attention towards rebounding.

 

[VenomXL]

Only if she's Five Three.

*record scratch*

 

[jlprk]

This coming summer, Aldridge needs to get with his trainer in Texas to add 15 pounds of solid muscle to his fanny. Freeland could join him.

 

[Nikolokolus]

This coming summer, Aldridge needs to get with his trainer in Texas to add 15 pounds of solid muscle to his fanny. Freeland could join him.

Maybe he could get it from Chris Johnson, since he's apparently not using all that extra muscle he added over the summer?

 

[jlprk]

I have a theory. The 15 pounds of pure muscle was created from fat a few years ago and is passed around each summer. It's like the law of conservation of energy. There is a finite amount. It is never created out of thin air.