right, but you were asking if he could play center like aldridge. i was just letting you know that he does. you can't really say that about zach. bosh's per is 22.41. randolph is 19.45. aldridge is 18.83. zach has a higher usage rate than bosh, but has less assists and more turnovers and is significantly worse shooting the ball. really, trying to compare bosh to randolph at all is a joke. aldridge is better than randolph. just because bosh has better numbers than aldridge doesn't mean that they are meaningless numbers. bosh would be a better defender in portland than he is in toronto. definitely. it's more questionable whether or not aldridge would be a better offensive player without the guys around him in portland. bosh has shown that even with greater attention from defenses on him that he can score more efficiently than aldridge and more often than aldridge.
According to this: http://sports.theglobeandmail.com/s...ptraps0202/GSStory/GlobeSportsBasketball/home Bosh didn't say anything. Stephen A. is an idiot.
While we're playing this game, here's a question: how does Bosh get his points? He's not a back-to-the-basket type, is he? From what I've seen he isolates and faces up and uses his speed to get by his defender. Is that what we want our PF to do? Is it the way to take advantage of our other assets?
A bit, but Aldridge mostly posts up with his back to the basket or takes a long jumper off a pass out. (And here's another thing that I believe [because I heard Mike Rice say it, I think] Aldridge might be better than Bosh at: offensive rebounding. I think I heard that he's like top 3 in PFs in that. Of course, that might (a) be bullshit, (b) be a result of teams concentrating on Oden, so would be a benefit Bosh would have too, or (c) Bosh might be top 2 or 1, but I'm too lazy to check.)
aldridge has a very slight advantage over bosh there(0.1 more offensive rebounds in 2 less minutes and with the blazers slower pace). of course bosh is much better on the defensive glass.
Bosh (with his current contract situation) is not worth Aldridge + ?... Bosh signed to a big deal for 5 years is worth Aldridge +... So, this is not a good deal at the current time, unless it is some kind of lowball type situation, which I can't imagine Toronto would accept.
It depends. He's probably better than any other big man at doing that. But right now, a major flaw in his game has arisen in the fact that he takes too long to make a decision when he gets the ball. It stalls the offense and allows defenders to prepare for the inevitable drive to the bucket. The best thing for Bosh's career would involve having a coach that scaled back the number of isolation plays the team ran for him and forced him to adjust to playing more within the flow of a team offense. He developed his game under Sam Mitchell, who absolutely milked the iso off the pick-and-roll, and I believe it prevented him from truly diversifying/developing his offensive skillset, and improving his B-ball IQ. That said, I don't think there was any credibility to this rumour in the first place. There's certainly a possibility that Bosh isn't with Toronto in the foreseeable future, but I don't see it happening before this season ends.
Personally I wouldn't be in favor of adding Bosh. People undervalue Aldridge's defense. Lamarcus has improved upon this part of his game each season. He's quickly becoming one of the better all-around defensive big men. Plus, his toughness (yep, I said it, he's no softie!) is exactly what our team needs. His offensive game isn't nearly what Bosh's is, but LA is a year younger and still developing, so he's also not nearly as close to his ceiling as Bosh is. And Lamarcus fits great chemistry-wise with this team. This team probably needs to make a move to be more successful this season or next, but this isn't the move they'd need to make.
