In European Basketball, a controlled tap is a rebound. http://homepages.tesco.net/~Roger.Yapp/rebound.htm EXAMPLE: Free throw or field goal attempt bounces off the rim (or backboard) and the player saves the ball from going out of bounds by tapping it to a team-mate. SCORING: Credit player who made a controlled tap with a rebound (either an offensive or defensive rebound, depending on the shooter). EXAMPLE: Free throw or field goal attempt bounces off rim (or backboard) and is deliberately tapped backwards in a controlled manner by a player to a team-mate. SCORING: Credit player who tapped the ball with a rebound.
Aldridge and Roy were on my fantasy team this year. We run our league through yahoo which gives real time stats so I'd often watch my fantasy team's stats compile as I watched Blazer games. It was my strong impression that when LA would tip balls to teammates that I wasn't watching his personal stats expand, but often Roy's would Maybe there is leeway given to the scorekeeper in this matter? btw... the checks just started coming in STOMP
There's no getting around it. The ball hit the ground multiple times last night when LMA was in the vicinity and frequently it got scooped up by Jason Richardson. His work on the defensive glass was an embarrassment last night, but it was an embarrassment by most of the team (minus Camby).
lol @ LMA's soft ass effort last night, and Roy's too, pathetic. I can't even refute anything my friends in Phoenix are jawin' at me with.....I don't even know what to say about that effort.
I found the post I was referring to and it wasn't in the game thread... my bad! I must have just read it at half time or something post #18 in this thread STOMP
I would do it! LMA needs to get his soft ass in gear, and that silly look on his face all the time just gets old. I would trade his ass for Zach Randolph right now, why did we trade him anyway.........
Well its simple. See Lamarcus had his one game where he answered his critics. That is his quota for the week. He only gets his motor running when people bitch about his play, has one good game to silence his critics, and then goes back to being passive again. Look at the number of fouls her committed for the game. Look at the number of fouls the rest of our bigs had the rest of the game. It should be fairly obvious why he didn't get his hands on rebounds. You can't get your hands on rebounds if you don't mix it up. Cunningham had a ton more rebounds than him, in 1/3 the minutes.
Aldridge has to stop being so reliant on his center teammate to get all the boards. He lacks the fundamentals required to box out, and it's awfully frustrating. At least, I'm glad that he will have two (three-- Joel) of the best rebounders in the league on his team next season. I think the most we can expect out of this off season is internal development. As our roster stands now, I think this team has WCF caliber talent. We just need good coaching (not the shitty job Nate was doing here before GO went down), and good health to realize that potential.
You need more than 0 rebounds each from Joel and Oden. Looking at the box score of last night's game, their bigs killed you.
Exactly. Our team Relies on our Big's. Last night the Ref's screwed over Camby and we had no replacement. The lack of a center screws the entire flow of our playing style.
Honestly, I don't know why this is even a debate. LMA has his virtues, but not even his own mother would claim he is more than mediocre as a rebounder. There are 3 basic ways to address this. A) Cling to the notion that Oden is going to be the second coming of Wilt, and that a finese PF is OK. B) Give up and trade LMA as part of a package for an upgrade. (Bosh?) C) Find a backup PF who is bigger than Dante and/or more talented than Pendergraph. Somebody who can contrast the finese game with a little old fasion brutality. I'd say "C" is the most realistic. Take advantage of what LMA does well, and find him a back-up who covers for his shortcoming.
Aldridge is soft. It doesn't mean he's incapable of being a good player, but he relies on finesse and his jumper... that means fewer rebounds and it means fewer free throw attempts. I'd rather have a good player who's soft than a bad player who's hard-nosed, but... he's soft. Ed O.
At least you're putting Soft and Hard on a perpendicular axis from Good and Bad. It seems like too many people here are simply using Soft as a synonym for Bad.
My post was definitely in reference to Game 4, and my experience of having watched it. LMA had a few good tipped rebounds (probably why he got 11 that afternoon). Just so you know.
