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Re: LMA on main page of espn

yeah that was a cool article, i was just gonna post this. good stuff.
 
Re: LMA on main page of espn

Now that I look the Blazers are all over the espn/nba page.
 
Re: LMA on main page of espn

Great article. Aldridge hit some huge shots against Boston last night, with defenders all over him. The guy is amazing.
 
Re: LA Confidential

Sorry guys. Didn't realize it was already on here!
 
Re: LA Confidential

Saw that earlier. Possibly the best article I've read on LMA.
 
Re: LMA on main page of espn

Very cool read.
 
"Leap of Faith"

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3800651

Great article by Ric Bucher on LMA, especially timely after he had such a stellar night against Boston.

My favorite part of the article:
As rock-solid as Roy is, as imposing as Oden may be, most NBA GMs think Aldridge's potential is the most tantalizing. "He's only scratched the surface of what he can be," says one. McMillan agrees and has his pickax ready. "Brandon's game is further ahead offensively than defensively, and Greg's game is further ahead defensively than offensively," says McMillan. "LaMarcus is a player who can dominate at both ends. I don't want to compare players but he has a lot of the same things KG has. Right now, he's Rasheed Wallace. He can get to Kevin Garnett." Neither Roy nor Oden draws similar comparisons. Yet, Roy is an All-Star and the hysteria over Oden was only slightly muted by the microfracture surgery last season that postponed his debut. Only to the public is Aldridge a clear third in the Blazer pecking order.
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Couldn't agree more with this assessment
 
Re: "Leap of Faith"

This has already been posted. Somebody merge.
 
What a well-written article. It was an insightful look at LaMarcus- I didn't know a lot of that background info on him. Why can't the Oregonian write an informative piece like this?
 
I had no idea LMA was like that. QUick's comment about being cut-off from interviews for a week for mentioning "soft" makes sense now.
 
Seems borderline paranoid, and a bit self-righteous to me.

Guess he thinks his shit don't stink.
 
MARIS61 said:
Seems borderline paranoid, and a bit self-righteous to me.

Guess he thinks his shit don't stink.
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Why do you have to read negativity into that article? The fact that he's improving on his social skills this season should be a positive. People have baggage. Most people have baggage. It amazes me how some people think athletes are supposed to be above all that, simply because they can play a sport professionally. They are human.
 
MARIS61 said:
Seems borderline paranoid, and a bit self-righteous to me.

Guess he thinks his shit don't stink.
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Really? I didn't get that impression at all from this article. Interesting how people can read the same exact article and come away with two entirely different views. I agree he has trust issues for obvious reasons, but I disagree he is self righteous. And he certainly does not appear to think he is better than anyone else.
 
MARIS61 said:
Seems borderline paranoid, and a bit self-righteous to me.

Guess he thinks his shit don't stink.
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IF you believe Ric Bucher's assesment 100%, than I understand where you are coming from. I like Bucher, but this article sounds pop psychologisty to me. Did LA really avoid Roy last year on the sole basis of not being invited to a B-Que? On that one act alone? That would be "bonderline paranoid". IF (in fact) LA steared completely clear of B-Roy last year (and I doubt that, or we would have heard about it) it seems more probable that there's more to the story than not being invited to one outing. That's the kind of thing I think Bucher overgeneralizes in this article. Or by insinuating that the Blazers organization has to deal with LA with kid gloves so as not to bruise his ego. ALL professional athletes have egos. Does the organization make an effort to roll Lamarcus out there WITH B-Roy and Oden as the face of the organization? Probably, but not for the sole reason that Bucker would have you believe - that LA would turn on the organization if he felt slighted. He makes it sound like everybody in the organization from KP to Nate walks on egg shells. I don't think Lamarcus is that fragile. I just think Bucker takes a few liberties here to make for a better read.
 
It may just have been he thought Roy wasn't interested in being friends off the court, not he got mad he wasn't invited so he didn't have anytihng to do with Roy off the court. A lot of times people make more out of something than there is.

I can understand with a father like he has LA having trust issues. Of course all I know is what I've read so I can't really say and for anyone to draw any conclusions, especially extreme ones as some have said, says more about them than it does about LA to me.
 
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