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I would love Kevin Love for this guy tbh. Aldridge is disgustingly soft.
Why isn't Pop calling out LA like he is on Lonnie? Easy pickings I guess...
I would love Kevin Love for this guy tbh. Aldridge is disgustingly soft.
LMA did 'disappear' last night. Strange, as he had a good season last year.
It's just weird how he has games like this, because he also has games where he looks like a ing MVP candidate (like the 56 point game last year). I still think people here are too hard on him because he's a good player more often than not. And I'm sick of people complaining about his play style. Seriously, if you haven't accepted by now that his signature shot is a fadeaway jumper, just kill yourself and get it over with. He's not going to magically change styles late in his career. But after a game like this, which we would have won if he had given his normal output, he deserves to be on.
Aldridge is in his head a lot I guess. 4th quarter against Portland was the same. Once that happens he's a catastrophy. We just have 2 mentally soft star players in DeRozan and LA. It is what it is. He'll put up 40 against the lottery Warriors though.
LMA, aggressiveness;;;
That's because we can't understand you with Kawhi's d!ck in your mouth.
‘Good’ players don’t get the max. Great, consistent players do. Whenever some team overpays for above average talent, everybody here is quick to laugh out loud, but this is what we did with LMA.
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised at this point
I approved the extension.
I am sensing a down tick in his mobility. Father Time is undefeated.
Where is LaMarcus Aldridge aggressiveness?
He shipped it ahead to Portland.
Because Aldridge has carried the team the last 2 seasons. What has that scrub Walker done?
Vince Carter has defeated Father Time several times already.
Lakers are too big for him at this point in his career tbh. He should’ve played better regardless, because eight points on two of nine shooting as a joke, but he’s never going to have huge games against Anthony Davis and JaVale McGee. They’re just too big and long for him to be effective.
He definitely needs to step up consistently against the elite teams but I think it gets overlooked that the guy is 34 and will be 35 in four months. His best days are clearly behind him.
LMA could easily improve his 3 point shooting. He has already show he is capable of treys, plus dinasoars such as Jason Kidd have worked on it late in their careers and improved. He just has no motivation and Popped is a large part of that by catering to him plus the idiotic money guarantee. He would have been in essentially a contract year.
I did not care for the young full of hisself Carter but older Vince is honorable and he done well holding back the ravages of time. We could only hope that LMA ages as well. I am afraid he won’t. He does not have the heart.
Last edited by GAustex; 11-03-2019 at 10:43 PM.
Big men don't age as well. It used to be that they would develop a midrange game, if they wanted to extend their time in the league. I don't know what LMA could do.
So after last season, you're just assuming he's fallen off a cliff? Because he's destroyed the likes of Davis, Towns, Gobert, Gasol, etc. in recent years.
I'm not arguing otherwise necessarily. It's bound to happen sooner than later, but I think he's earned more time before jumping to conclusions.
Skilled, below the rim types like Aldridge do; which is why he's coming off arguably his two best seasons at 32 and 33 respectively.
Unless he pulls a Malone and is somehow still a 1st option type in his mid-late 30s, his path is extending his range to 3. With his high, quick release and soft touch, he could be a lethal stretch five if he embraces it.
export him to china STAT
The problem I see is that his ceiling/this team’s ceiling is not that high but his personal trade value might still be. He’s at that age where one bad season can really make that contract untradeable, and so, IMO, you have to be realistic about this team’s chances, what we’re trying to accomplish with the young kids and think if this is the time to get best value back from him.
I can totally understand if somebody doesn’t think that way, and thinks LMA is just on a funk and he can be effective at least another two seasons, but I also think it’s a valid concern...
Nah, it isn't. He's basically the an hesis of what people want in bigs today (inability/refusal to be a switcher, spacer or rim runner). He'd probably fetch either a solid young veteran or a lottery protected 1st as the centerpiece and given their aversion to tanking, he's more valuable to them than that.
DeRozan is who they need to trade at all costs. It doesn't even matter what the return is; it'd be addition by subtraction.
That's 2 big games he hasn't shown up for, not a good sign.
I think he's mentally checked out because he wants to go back to Portland to finish his career there
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