LMA being close to the basket seems by design.
If you want your best rebounding big (strongest and most agile at this point at least) to fight for an O board you have to have him close to the basket. You probably want him close to the basket bc that is his advantage against small ball, and whatever delays he causes on the opposing team grabbing a rebound with his hustle (even if he doesn't win the O board), is time wasted for the small ball team in trying to get easy transition baskets (their bread and butter) and allows us to get back in transition.
I would be pretty surprise that pop wants LMA to crash O rebounds, O rebounds have never been a priority for Spurs. We always finish among worst nba team on this area.
For small ball teams what you said could make sense but Spurs will try anyway to oblige opponents to not play small ball and then on transition defense (one Spurs priority) lma is quicker than Tim nowadays so not sure about you want him close for defense purpose tbh
Not sure exactly how these early experiments will go. I am just stating my observation and a possible reason for Pop's experiment. To see if it works? To see how good LMA is at that? I am not sure, its just what I observed.
It took LMA the entire yr to get 105 3pt attempts up (he only made 37)
In that same time he scored 306 pts on FTs alone
Your simple math logic is flawed because it doesn't account for any FTs
FTs that come almost exclusively from his 2pt attempts
You cant just pretend they didn't happen you damn dummy
Aldridge shooting 3s is much better than his mediocre post game, tbh
Halfway through the season: 10
you meant 10 ?
^ I have been saying this since the beginning of the season. I do not know how many he has shot through the first half of the season, but I hardly remember his taking any, which suits me fine.I've seen a couple Aldridge videos, and I like when he is playing near the rim at times on offensive rebounds. He seems to a very good job on tipping in a lot of offensive rebounds something we haven't had for quiet a while. I do hope we run a lot of pick and pops for him but the plays we are going to the basket, I would like to see him clean up a lot of misses. So I hope his 3 pointers are down this season is what I'm trying to say.
Yeah I was way off
Wish he could get to where he was last year though. Taking 1.5 3s a game and making them at a 35% clip seems reasonable to me; it's not like we'd be asking him to camp out behind the 3-point line all game and not spend time in the paint.
0-10 3FG. And probably half of those or more were shots to beat the buzzer. He has not been looking to shoot threes at all. That is a bit odd considering he was coming off a career high of 37-105. But it's clear that he and/or the Spurs don't want him hang outside the arc.
It would make no sense for you guys to take a player out of his confort zone.. When instead you could utilize his strengths.
Aldridge himself said he plans on shooting a lot more 3s as his career progresses to help extend it, tbh, which was what influenced this thread..
It may have been different if the Warriors weren't the primary threat to the Spurs, as it seems like Pop is combating their style by utilizing a dominant paint attack/antiquated offensive model for the SL..
lol
I agree about his diva at ude, it's part of the reason I think he'll be shooting more 3s, too
It's been widely reported that he had a diva at ude in Portland, that's not really debatable..people change, though, obviously..
If you're relying entirely on second hand reports from people you don't know at all, it's absolutely debatable. Whatever issues Aldridge had in Portland (maybe playing with Lilliard), it seems to have been shared by quite a few of the other ex-Trailblazers who also chose to leave.
Woj is the most reliable NBA reporter in the business, tbh..
Nothing wrong with being a diva, most star players are, Aldridge isn't an exception..
Antiquated is technically correct, but it shouldn't carry a negative connotation here. I see it more like playing scissors for a long time (epitomized by the 2010-2011 Spurs) and switching to rock once the rest of the league starts to copy you.
I don't think it's a negative thing, it's pretty cool of Pop to be going against the grain, most of us weren't expecting it..
NBA stats are telling an interesting story re: LMA's usage by the Spurs: http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/200746/stats/shooting/
Post game: 68%
Other 2s: 41%
3s: 0%
He's hitting long 2s (20-22ft) at 37%, so that's still a better choice than shooting 3s, obviously.
West is more accurate and actually has taken 3's and made it. West is just a better shooter, but isn't as good in the post due to his size. Honestly, Aldridge needs to wake up to reality that his best game is really in the paint! His finesse game outside is adequate but not really exceptional.
Bump..
he should've been working on this in the summer, no? as we saw in Thunder series, his 3PT has potential and usefulness for the team overall offensive scheme now with Gasol on board, not to mention something he could lean on as he nears the exit of his prime....Let's hope he did; otherwise i have to question his work ethics, tbh...
Spurs probably want him scoring in the paint. You need a threat in the paint to open up the 3 pt shot for others. Don't want LMA to turn into DWest but at the 3. Already the team has a candidate for a stretch 4 in Bertans, who is not going to be getting into the paint.
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