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Trash. Not worth it.
Yep
How will LMA handle himself in the playoffs against the Dublets?
Trash. Not worth it.
LOL. Like: Why LaMarcus Aldridge’s Game Doesn’t Quite Fit With The Spurs... In the playoffs I mean. http://thesportsquotient.com/nba/201...with-the-spurs
Lots of people wanting do-overs right about now.
totally worth it
LMA might be the key to victory!
It's Richard Jefferson all over again.
NOT!
November (14 games): 15.9 ppg on 49.5 TS%
December (16 games): 15.9 ppg on 55.4 TS%
January (11 games): 16.7 ppg on 57.3 TS%
February (12 games): 20.5 ppg on 59.5 TS%
March (12 games): 22.8 ppg on 61.8 TS%
The biggest knock on LMA's game has always been his efficiency. His career TS% going into this year was 53.2%...which isn't horrible given his volume, but it's certainly not great (or even good) either. Since the start of 2016, he's put up a 59.7 TS% which is elite.
The biggest reason for this increase in efficiency has been him going away a bit from his mid-range game and relying more on finishing inside. In his last 2 seasons in Portland, 18.7% of his attempts came at the rim, and 41.6% of his attempts came from 16-23 feet. He shot 67.3% and 44.5% from those ranges respectively. This year, 28.1% of his attempts come at the rim and just 30.1% of his attempts come from 16-23 feet. He's shooting 74% at the rim and 42.3% from 16-23 feet. To give you an idea how impressive that 74% figure is, LeBron (one of the GOAT finishers at the rim) shoots 72.5% there for his career.
Obviously this will all be moot if he disappears in the playoffs...but just the fact that he's transitioned towards shooting more efficient shots is a good sign. One of his biggest problems in the postseason is his mid-range game disappearing. The less he relies on that and the more he relies on scoring closer to the basket, the lesser chance he ends up completely falling off in the playoffs IMO.
We need LMA to do good. I've never rooted against the guy. I was just laughing at that point.
The Blazers can totally eliminate the spurs. So can okc and of course the golden gods. Sometimes, one teams trash is just trash. Poop dumpster diving instead of plugging in youth until a real prize is up for grabs, typical lame. Spurs record is total fools gold.
This is going to be such an epic meltdown thread if the Spurs get eliminated by Golden State.
More so than the anti kawhi troll threads?
Dude helped lead the spurs to one of the best seasons in franchise history with pop doing his best to tank half the games. .. unless there's a first round upset...
Who am I kidding. You're right. This is spurstalk.
50 pages... my nigg Harlem still has it tbh
are u cozying up to get a spot on his next top poster list tbh?
are u cozying up to get a spot on his next top poster list tbh?
That or a Jimmer thread
Imagine if those guys ran the team
It's really not that hard to make a thread this re ed that you know has a 90% chance of backfiring and will constantly get bumped. I mean, LMA averaged like 24 & 11 the previous two years.. Threads with takes this bad constantly happen every year, The "Will Manu ever score 20 again?" Thread or the "Any pop suckers gonna do some damage control" thread when Pop does something re ed lmao
The sad part is, the short bus was actually taking the topic seriously and believed he was going to be a bust
Last edited by TheGreatYacht; 03-29-2016 at 04:55 AM.
eh, HH owned up to this thread, and at least during the offseason he was saying the spurs should go all-out to get aldridge, unlike accounts like apa who were saying "no thanks he's soft"
Well he's covering all the bases
That or a Jimmer thread
you my nigg tbh but I have to disagree with you on this one... Will manu score 20 again thread or pop suckers are not comparable threads... in OP HH was in fact talking bb and his take is about how a player like LMA could unbalance the Spurs. This is a real bb topic unlike dumb other 50 pages thread... Oh and BTW LMA is worth it for sure but you cannot deny the fact that Spurs are now heavily reliant on LMA and Kawhi offense to feed the scoreboard, we went from a very balanced scoring team to a 1/2 scoring punch. Again not saying this is good or bad but signing LMA did change the Spurs on offense, the unexpected outcome is how well LMA fit on Defense... nobody was really able to anticipate that tbhIt's really not that hard to make a thread this re ed that you know has a 90% chance of backfiring and will constantly get bumped. I mean, LMA averaged like 24 & 11 the previous two years.. Threads with takes this bad constantly happen every year, The "Will Manu ever score 20 again?" Thread or the "Any pop suckers gonna do some damage control" thread when Pop does something re ed lmao
The sad part is, the short bus was actually taking the topic seriously and believed he was going to be a bust
I think changing the offense into a more post up oriented offense was for the better, (obviously after the first round exit) because of how bad the role players have been this year. The Spurs are going to have to slow down the pace against the Warriors and really abuse their small lineup. LMA and Kawhi are the perfect players to have when they go midget on us, compared to the beautiful game offense where everything is up tempo which would fall right into Golden State's lap.
Spurs struggled early on against the elite teams when LMA was being used like a system player, and now that he's being used right and his shot attempts have gone up, he's dropping 30 nearly every game and the Spurs just handled LAC, OKC, GSW all in the same week.
Imagine ter going up against this new and improved Raymond who never shuts the up
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