Pop had already been trying to do that. Not Aldridge off the bench, but staggering him and having him come off the floor at different times than Kawhi, and he was rather monopolizing the bench's offense which became more stagnant than we have known it to be and he was terrible. The Grizz series it felt like Aldridge was ruining a top bench in the league in the RS with his post ups. It's why when Kawhi was off the floor, the Spurs were a - (minus some ungodly amount).
I do think they are still giving him post ups obviously, but he's rolling to the basket more (Pop playing him in stretch/wing lineups or with Gasol opens up the world of opportunities for him IMO. In contrast playing him with Lee or Dedmon wasn't good, it was very stagnant. Anyways, there are many things to comment about and I am sure someone who paid attention more than me can add to it, but where Aldridge gets the ball, and how often he looks to seal guys at the basket, or rolls is tied to which big is with him, etc and he's done better with either all wings or stretch bigs as Gasol (and Anderson if you consider him one anyways).
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After contending with a physical Grizzlies defense I expected the Spurs to dominate Houston's cupcake defense, Aldridge especially. They disrespected that guy putting James Harden on him of all people and he still didn't respond. He deserved the criticism he got. In Game 6 he FINALLY started establishing better position in the post and got going hitting some easy jumphooks instead of getting bullied off the block to the perimeter for jumpshots. That had nothing to do with Kawhi. It's all on LMA to keep playing like this.
