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cmeese47 said:
No I hated his ineffective love for long range jumpers and inability to adapt to the modern NBA and shoot from 1 step back where his 35% shooting would have been useful. I hated his flat out refusal to play center or bang in the post even though it was where he was most effective. I hated that he averaged like 5 FTA's a game when he should have shot 10.
I also hated knowing that he would leave and we would get nothing for him.

P.S. I also hated his terrible team defense.
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It's interesting to see the Spurs place such a high value on LMA.
 
Oh good lord, can SlyPokerDog be any more of a drama queen? 9-11??
 
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Take a bow ... and use it to shoot poisonous methaphorical arrows of disdain when you next see Aldridgel.
 
I don't think I said one thing about this issue. However, I must say I am going to be completely happy however it turns out. I hated watching him shoot from outside because I knew he was unstoppable in the post.

Now I get to see one of two things....Pop gets him to play the way he should OR the whole thing blows up in the Spurs faces.
 
This thread is fucken ridiculous. Yea lets rub salt into a wound that should be painful for everyone thats a Blazers fan, being vindictive and a "told you so" attitude just makes SlyPokerDog a douchebag plain and simple. Sure you were right but thats like arguing with someone who's diffusing a bomb and he snips the wire you didn't want him to and it blows up, SlyPokerDog is still just as fucked as the guy who snipped the wire.
The Blazers took a big step backwards today but I think the one thing we can all agree on is we want to see the organization do what it takes to now start taking steps forward again.
 
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cmeese47 said:
Come on fellas while the wounds are still fresh it is time for all the people who suggested that we deal LA before he left for nothing a chance to shine. Vindication is ours and all it took was a little common sense and some cultural knowledge that elite black althetes do not want to live in a town full of white hipsters, eat out of food carts, pay high state income taxes and drink microbrew.

Portland would be a tremendous place for a professional hockey team to come.

LA we will miss you, but most of all we will miss out on the opportunity you presented to net us Jimmy Butler and Taj Gibson. We will also miss all those potential first round picks we squandered as Batum watched his value plummet, Matthews end up with a career threatening injury and lose all his trade value and Rolo to forget how to play offense and regress back to the same old player he was in Pheonix.

Oh well everyone lets get this over with if you were on the trade LA side take a bow and your round of polite golf claps. The rest of you accept you plateful of crow and ridicule then let's hug it out go drink some hefe get some fire on the mountain wings and drink tequila all night and celebrate being American.

Happy 4th everyone.
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This is probably your worst post ever. Full of ignorance....
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Thanks, I try.
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SlyPokerDog said:
It's interesting to see the Spurs place such a high value on LMA.
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They don't need LA to be a 25 shot a night kind of guy. They needed someone to ease the burden off of Parker and Leonard. They don't need his rim protection or lack thereof yet with Duncan still around.

The real test of this acquisition will happen after Duncan finally retires.
 
Good idea for a thread topic, Cmeese. As a long-time Aldridge critic, I stood up for you when you started posting here. A poster who is now banned was after you for noting Aldridge weaknesses.

The main plus I can find is that he served as a decoy, drawing double teams, because his reputation outshone his contribution. Now we can return to conventional basketball. Because we lost 3 other starters, it may take till next summer to recover. I hope Olshey can do it faster.
 
jlprk said:
Good idea for a thread topic, Cmeese. As a long-time Aldridge critic, I stood up for you when you started posting here. A poster who is now banned was after you for noting Aldridge weaknesses.

The main plus I can find is that he served as a decoy, drawing double teams, because his reputation outshone his contribution. Now we can return to conventional basketball. Because we lost 3 other starters, it may take till next summer to recover. I hope Olshey can do it faster.
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You only hate the ones you love. I watched LA and saw all his potential and then I saw him waste a lot of that potential. As a center LA was a beast, he could score, draw fouls and was a monster on the glass. You would see flashes of that at times throughout the season but too often what we got was jump shot after jump shot after jump shot. He was way too good of a player to be that complacent. Kind of reminded me of how Sheed acted late in his career settling for threes when he could have dominated on the low block.

LA with Matthews work ethic and attitude would have dominated this league. Instead we got a diva who had plenty of talent but who rarely lived up to his potential. That is why I was always so hard on him, why I often mentioned trading him and never stopped paying attention. LA has the skills to average 28 and 12 a night but he likely won't ever.
 
Exactly, Cmeese. He had the talent to be a decadal league star, but maddeningly wouldn't expand his game to conventional Power Forwarding, much less Centering, which is his natural position. He never had the energy, much less the mental juice, to last 4 full quarters. His moda was to score a lot in the first half, peter out, then Roy came to the rescue. His first two games in the Houston series showed what I knew he should look like all the time.

But I'm not so sure when you say he'll never change. We (fans and management) were always soft on him, but Popovich is an old-fashioned yell-er. Someone needs to yell and yell and break his resistance. Let him know that this is not satisfactory. I expect Aldridge to improve a lot, both in the little things, and in the big strategy of how he's used.
 
jlprk said:
But I'm not so sure when you say he'll never change. We (fans and management) were always soft on him, but Popovich is an old-fashioned yell-er. Someone needs to yell and yell and break his resistance. Let him know that this is not satisfactory. I expect Aldridge to improve a lot, both in the little things, and in the big strategy of how he's used.
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I'm not so sure when you say he will change. Seems to me we used to have a coach known as "Sarge".

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SpongeBob SoftSarge's unconventional system ruined Aldridge. You have to start these young punks out right. If Popovich asks, I'm ready to fly to San Antone tonight.
 
It is certainly possible that Pop can get through to LA, I am not sure that it will happen though. I would also find it hilarious if he didn't listen to watch Pop and Buford ship his ass off to some place like Sacramento or Utah or New York wherever he would hate it the most.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
It's important to always be right on the internet.
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maxiep said:
Really? You happy now? SlyPokerDog is a fucking douche.

There are those who are constantly right--the opposite of your "stopped clock" luck--who don't say a damn word, and especially when the news is bad.

You have some serious self-esteem issues if you wish to give yourself a pat on the back for this catastropic news. I bet on September 12, 2001 you probably trumpeted on some other forum "I knew the terrorists would strike".
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Im missing it. Sly What the F did you do?


Strenuus said:
This crow I'm eating tastes delish!
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Stren mad respect for taking it like a man! The real pussies are the ones in hiding really.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Im missing it. Sly What the F did you do?
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There are no personal insults allowed here but I realize that people need to vent. So instead of playing dad or a hard ass and telling people to stop insulting each other I will go into a post and substitute the name of the person being insulted with mine.

Many times they will stop insulting people or they will start to vent their anger at me instead of their original target. Either way the forum goes back to talking basketball.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Im missing it. Sly What the F did you do?




Stren mad respect for taking it like a man! The real pussies are the ones in hiding really.
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Sly changes all personal attacks to make them directed towards him so he did nothing the poster was pissed at me for trying to have a little fun.

Plus this thread is important many of us who knew LA was leaving and called for his trade have already accepted he was leaving and have begun to live normal lives again. We are here to help.
 
cmeese47 said:
Sly changes all personal attacks to make them directed towards him so he did nothing the poster was pissed at me for trying to have a little fun.

Plus this thread is important many of us who knew LA was leaving and called for his trade have already accepted he was leaving and have begun to live normal lives again. We are here to help.
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Very nice SLy, THats also Stand up! :)


Fair enough Cmeese. I was... not in denial, but actually truly believed and still do believe the Portland was still a consideration until free agency began. I thought the Batum trade was to appease him. Obviously I was wrong. Took a few minutes but, I then moved on. Ive never been one to see any positive about wasting time and energy on getting angry at things that have past that you cant change. I actually get more angry at those that don't get that and prefer to waste energy for days. But not everyone heals the same. I understand.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Very nice SLy, THats also Stand up! :)


Fair enough Cmeese. I was... not in denial, but actually truly believed and still do believe the Portland was still a consideration until free agency began. I thought the Batum trade was to appease him. Obviously I was wrong. Took a few minutes but, I then moved on. Ive never been one to see any positive about wasting time and energy on getting angry at things that have past that you cant change. I actually get more angry at those that don't get that and prefer to waste energy for days. But not everyone heals the same. I understand.
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I like having low expectations makes it easier to deal with the ups and downs that come with the NBA. I feel bad for people who believed wholeheartedly that we were a title contender last year. We had talent but not the kind of drive it takes to win it all. Now we can all just enjoy watching this team develop and hopefully a few wins a long the way.
 
This revisionist history is nonsense.

.9 would have never happened.

Ooh but we would have a draft pick!
 
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