No offense but it really seems like your just hating here. Everything you said about LMA can be more easily attributed to love.
I wont deny it - I hate LMA (as a player). I always have - this isn't a recent "hate the longest-tenured player because we're losing" thing like STOMP suggested. I went into this season expecting us to lose, and lose A LOT - we're actually winning far more than I thought we would. I've got no problem with us losing A LOT of games over the next two seasons. I just have a problem building around a player like LMA.
I simply don't see anything that LMA does exceedingly well. He's a horrible rebounder - you can't attribute that to Love. He's a horrible passer - can't contribute that to Love, either. He sets terrible picks, and doesn't understand how to roll. He has next to zero ability to face up, put down one or two strong dribbles and get to the hoop. He's a slightly-above-average post-defender - better than Love. But he's one of the worst team-defenders I've ever seen - equal to Love, at best...at least Love will crash the boards which is part of team-defense. He is uncoordinated, can't maintain low-post position, has poor hands when it comes to catching anything but the easiest of entry passes, and absolutely can't maintain upright body position with the ball above his head through the slightest contact when attempting a lay-up/dunk.
His supposed strength is his jump shot - but he continually ranks as roughly the 15th best jump shooting PF. Given that there are 30 teams, I'd say he's an average jump shooting PF.
Add to all of this his inability to "rise to the occasion" and I see a player who just doesn't match his reputation. He can put up a lot of points...on a lot of shots...generally in a losing effort. He's very similar to Bosh, but Bosh has better skills (rebounding, passing, dribbling...and shooting). I've never liked Bosh either, but now that he's the 3rd banana and actually embracing his role I'm beginning to like him (if only he'd stop flexing/yelling like he's "the man"). Maybe I'm a traditionalist, but the PF position is suppose to be a player who protects the hoop, rebounds, sets the picks, and gets their points off of hard play, put-backs, and high percentage shots, stretching out to 15' occasionally to help space the floor. LMA just doesn't offer anything other than scoring. I think we'd be better off with a "work horse" PF (Hickson?) who maybe only average 14-16ppg, but who rebounds, plays defense and sets good picks to help the rest of the team score more efficiently. I think Haslem was a far better PF during the Shaq/Wade championship than LMA will ever be.
