We've come to the point where the "new LaMarcus" has played exactly as many games this season as the "old LaMarcus." The "old LaMarcus" played 26 games, and then BRoy, our franchise player, went out with double knee surgeries. The "new LaMarcus" has filled the void as go to guy quite remarkably. What do the scoring and rebounding stats tell us about this tale of two half seasons? The "old LaMarcus" averaged 17.8 points and 8.0 rebounds. This is consistent with his prior three (non-rookie) years, in which he averaged 17.9 and 7.7. So what has the "new LaMarcus" done? Just averaged 25.4 points and 10.2 rebounds. He jumped his scoring by 43% and his rebounding by 28%! Points-wise, "new LaMarcus" would be tied witrh Kobe and DWade for 4th in scoring, behind only Durant, Amare, and LeBron, Rebounding-wise, "new LaMarcus" would be 6th in the league, behind Kevin Love, Dwight Howard, Zach Randolph, Blake Griffin, and Pau Gasol. If you make a "big man index" that adds points per game and rebounds per game, the rankings of this year's top big men are as follows: 1 Love 37.0 2 "new LaMarcus": 36.6 3 Dwight Howard 36.1 4 Durant 36.0 5 Griffin 35.7 6 Amare 35.1 7+: 33 or below: LeBron, Randolph, Carmelo, Nowitzski, Gasol "old LaMarcus": 25.8 "New LaMarcus" has vaulted himself to the top of the pack of NBA big men! What a remarkable transformation! Congratulations, LA, and keep it up. Good things lay ahead!
Kevin Love has this one sewn up, along with MVP, most handsome loverboy and finals MVP (historic, as the Pups are not going to make the playoffs).
Pretty amazing that the Blazers have two guys who at least are in the discussion for MIP. Of course, neither one happens if Roy doesn't go down with the knee issues.
He has serious competition: Derrick Rose (will probably win MVP) Wesley Matthews (my pick) Russell Westbrook Tyson Chandler Kevin Love Michael Beasley Raymond Felton
Big man PER for the whole season (in order) is Howard, Love, Stoudemire, Gasol, Nowitzki, Griffin, Randolph, Boozer, Aldridge. http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/holl...n.go.com/nba/hollinger/statistics?position=pf Compared to last season, Aldridge is only the 14th most-improved power forward in EFF per 48, and 15th per game. http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketball/fantasy/nba/trends/11/17/eff/1-2
Trying to isolate Aldridge's stats for after Roy left... His rank in EFF among all players, per 48 minutes 139 Oct 95 Nov 39 Dec 35 Jan 7 Feb His rank in EFF among all players, per game 75 Oct 35 Nov 21 Dec 10 Jan 3 Feb http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketball/fantasy/nba/playerstats/11/1/eff/27-1
He's movin' on up! I spent a while on that stuff and BlazerCaravan, you're into stats, so I'll pass this along to you. I found eff by month on NBA.com also (it's in the splits), but it includes players who have played like 3 or 6 minutes all season. No other sites have it. I looked on ESPN, HoopData, Basketball-Reference, etc. To find his post-Roy performance, I was dreaming of a site where you just plug in a time period (from a date to a date), but no way. Here's something useful, because of its options, that I hadn't noticed. http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketball/fantasy/nba/standings/11/13 best box scores, as you probably know--exotic stats http://www.hoopdata.com/boxscores.aspx?team=POR
