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Tim ing Duncan having to cut-short his vacations give this big-boy-baby-hearted human being psychological therapy and counseling on how to approach the game when insecurities attack and how to play ball in certain situations
GTFO
"Second best player" on the team bottom-dwelling in about ever meaningful impact metrics..
Tim ing Duncan having to cut-short his vacations give this big-boy-baby-hearted human being psychological therapy and counseling on how to approach the game when insecurities attack and how to play ball in certain situations
GTFO
how is David Lee at #6
What does OP think about LMA though. Let's see if he answers anything or just posts stats and twitts.
I'm massively disappointed in him, yeah.
Aldridge could be a contributing role player on a Championship team.
CIA Numb Nutts is the one running the offense thru him.
Also having him *anchor* the paint for a good portion of games.
He's going to have a monster game 6...I feel it in my bones.
I just wish he would just have the mindset that he needs to shoot no further than 4 feet from the basket. So when he's trying to get position in the post, he needs to be closer to the basket. And if he is further out, then either make a move right away or pass it up. Anytime he waits it seems to always result in a negative play.
How is Kyle Anderson number 4?
He's the new Bonner.
Also, lol at that list after kawhi.
Human Cigar. If hes getting owned, he gets subbed out.
I re-watched last night's game, and just keyed on LMA. I was trying to understand how a guy could put up 18 and 14, and I could still have a negative opinion of him. I figured that things probably look worse "in the heat of battle", when we're all worried about the game being on the line. Either that or maybe I could put my finger on what it is that bugs me so much about him.
He avoids contact like the plague. When someone is pushing on him, a lot of the time he just sort of goes where they want him to go. Like times I saw him on the weak side blocks, with a defender sort of leaning on him. He would just move away from them, toward the sideline. When he got far enough out of the play, they would release and cheat off him to go defend under the rim. The defender gets into the play around the rim, and eventually gets the rebound, and LMA is standing out in no-man's-land doing virtually nothing.
He also loafs a lot, on offense and on defense. The worst of that being when it's clear a shot is going up, or on loose ball situations. Instead of crashing the boards, or releasing to run the floor, he's too often just a spectator. There were times when a shot was going up that he just looked for an open space on the floor, and then waited to see if the ball came his way. A number of those 9 offensive boards he got just fell into his hands. He worked for some of them, no doubt. But even then, some of it was just being in the right place and then fighting for a ball that came his way.
The other big thing is that when he takes the ball in the post, he almost never makes a quick move to the basket. (When he gets the ball on a rebound, he tends to rush up a shot, but not when he takes a pass from a teammate.) Tim used to be a master at waiting for the double to come, and then passing out of it. Nobody has ever done that as well as Timmy, IMO, so we're all pretty spoiled. But LMA isn't worth a at seeing the double coming. It used to seem like Tim had eyes in the back of his head. LMA seems like he barely has eyes in the front of his head in those situations. Make it easy and say that he doesn't make the right pass out of the double team often, and he doesn't make the quick move to the basket before the double comes.
Aldridge is good at shooting fade-aways, or he wouldn't make so many of them. He's not good at rooting for position in the low blocks. He's not good at imposing his will in the low blocks. And he's not good at passing out of a double team. He moves away from contact, more often than he initiates it. He can do it - but most of the time he doesn't.
Bottom line, he's not Tim Duncan. He's not horrible - he's just not putting a team on his shoulders the way Tim used to.
Human cigar. Damn that made me laugh.
heh guys pimping Davis and Murray. ^"Second best player" on the team bottom-dwelling in about ever meaningful impact metrics..
lets wait until next season ok pls... ? thanks
How the is Pau #2?
And lmao at Bryn F
I am thinking that he was great for Pop in the prior series where he went with some defensive challenged lineups with Tony, Mills and Lee, but they got hot, scored, and won a few games like that.how is David Lee at #6
This series is not for Lee. He was obviously exploited in game 1 vs Rockets and has seen minutes decline. His share of minutes since then has gone down, but he still played a lot more vs Grizz... that is my guess for his numbers.
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Forbes... only 16 minutes.. strict garbage time. He did whatever he did in those minutes. Shot the ball well for the few shots he took, made some passes, was bad on defense, pretty much.How the is Pau #2?
And lmao at Bryn F
He plays very little but has played well when he does. He's efficient with the shots he takes, etc.
He has also played a lot of garbage time lately where he has scored with no problem whatsoever and gotten a lot of assists in transition. Have you not watched the games tbh?
I wish that for him tbh.
I don't mind at all if they guy all of a sudden increases his efficiency and blows his load next game.
how? cause bpm doesn't mean . look at Anderson in bpm and ws48. advanced stats are for assholes with no eye or mind for the gamehow is David Lee at #6
Thanks for sharing these observations. It shows you really observed him.
No one will really be Timmy... so I guess we have to appreciate what we have. It could be worse tbh.
He isn't proactive on defense, he's reactive, even on rebounds. On the play that Gordon got the three late to put them up by five, he ran down the lane chasing harden. When harden passed out to anderson instead of anticipating a rotation swing to an open player, he waits till the ball is already almost in gordons hands and then is like "oh " and starts running out.
It's a fast play and may seem a little critical, but you've been playing this team for five full games. You should start picking up on tendencies and anticipating. It's the difference between second round exits and championships. He's always too late because he reacting. It's just screams of laziness.
Same thing with rebounds. There was a play late in the game where I forgot who shot it, but when the shot went up, Manu turned around, found Beverly and laid the wood to him blocking out. It wasn't so much "I'm getting this rebound" but more of "you aren't getting this damn rebound!". Again championship plays vs early exits.
What this really boils down to is heart and desire to sell out to win. Aldridge has come into camp twice...TWICE... overweight, and that's to his new team that just gave him a max contract. I'm done with this dude. The only thing that might give me slim hope is, if the spurs don't move him, he comes into camp next year ripped and ready to roll next year.
Seriously how the did LMA game 1 and 2 against OKC 2016 happen? How did it happen?
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