Why does this post remind me of a thread started during the regular season last year about CJ?
I thought the same of that thread that I think of this post.
But fyi. Vonleh has shown flashes of what he can do. Just it's a play here, and a play there.
Have to look for little things.
Teams doubled the shit out of Dame when we HAD LMA. This idea that LMA created space for Dame is a total myth. The doubling of Dame is a coaching issue, not a personnel issue. The ONLY thing he provided was an occasional place to throw the ball into the post, but it happened so rarely that we're not really all that worse off. And since he stopped passing out of the post last season (unlike the previous season) he never created open shots for anyone when he got the ball in the post.
You actually believed what you just posted? You actually believe that LA didn't take a load OFF of Dame? NO player in the post for us now demands a double team. NOBODY will be left open ever anymore. LA got doubled 90% of the time he had the ball down low, which in turn created mismatches and opportunities for others. Now we have to work twice as hard to get a quality shot. Don't let you hatred for Aldridge blind your common sense of the game of basketball and how it works!
Simply not true. The VAST majority of his shots came off pick/pops, and in EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE the defense doubled Dame and let LMA have the wide open 18' jumper. He was rarely guarded by single-coverage in those cases, and NEVER doubled. In the cases where he did get the ball in the post - which, again, was rare - he would draw a double 50% of the time, at best. So maybe 4 times per game he'd draw a double (on average - there were teams that would always send a double, and teams that would never send a double)? And last season he completely stopped passing out of the post, so he wasn't creating any open looks for others like he did the previous season.
This is what I love about sports and life in general. Two people can see the exact same thing and have two totally different opinions of what they saw.
Things will work themselves out. Love Dame, but thats a heavy load to carry on his back. I promise you he would rather have another player on our roster that would demand a double team. We simply don't have that.
May not make me a rap star, but I DAMN sure know how the music is made!
We ABSOLUTELY are "better off" without LMA. We might not be better, but we're certainly better off because that punk ass bitch isn't able to take a team further than the first round. Building a team around a pansy-ass PF is a recipe for mediocrity.
It's amazing that you have all those credentials and still don't know what. You're talking about. You overreact to personnel moves. You said Heat would go 75-7 after they signed LeBron and Bosh. They didn't even win 60 and lost in the Finals. After our excellent offseason, you said we'd only win 15-20 games which is wrong and a huge slap in the face to Lillard and McCollum. You also said it would be harder for Lillard to score without Aldridge, but he's actually doing better without Aldridge across the board. More points, more assists, better shooting percentage. For all of your experience and contacts, it's truly amazing how little you know. It's shocking.
With Aldridge, we closed the season 22-27. We weren't that great and we were getting worse. Last year's team could just have well started 4-6 with this schedule we've had. The team we have now is better. Sometimes, there is addition with substraction. Plus, you seem to ignore all of the moves Olshey made to make us better. It's not like we dropped a bunch of players and didn't add any.
And? He still doesn't demand a double team.
I thought we lost those games down the stretch because of injuries to a few key guys. Maybe I was wrong.
