And I have been with you since Season 3. His numbers pretty much are completely proportional to his increase in minutes, except his blocks actually decreased each season. He is basically the same LA we got his rookie year with a few additional offensive moves, none of which have panned out to make him more efficient or dependable as a scorer. Right now the guy I have my eye on is Larry Sanders. I think this dude will be a flat out stud in 2 years.
I guess that Coach K doesn't know jack, huh? Makes you wonder why everyone's reluctant to give Love minutes... By the way: Reggie Evans for the All-Star Team!
This guy just doesn't give up. Love's averaging 34 minutes and has a PER of 22.8 19pts and 15 rebs a game. Your boy Aldridge is averaging 18 and 8 with a PER of 17.3 Who's better? You do the math.
Umm, yeah right. If you say so. Never mind that Evans is injured, grabs 3.2 fewer RPG, and oh yeah, there's the little fact you omittied that Kevin Love scores 15.4 MORE PPG than Reggie Evans. Evan's averages 4.0 PPG and would have a hard time scoring 10 points if you locked him in the gym by himself for an hour. BNM
He'd probably just whine about wanting to move back home to be closer to his family and friends. Oh wait... BNM
Love with 33 and 15 last night against NYK. 3-5 from behind the arc. He's now averaging 20 and 15 and shooting 40% from downtown.
Even if LMA and Love are roughly equal today, wouldn't you want to get the guy who is only in his second year and getting better versus the guy in his 5th who hasn't gotten much better in the last three years? Seems like an easy choice to me. Really, I would prefer to have both.
Minnesota is 5-16. Sounds like we have a ZBO on steroids, except ZBO played a little bit better on defense. Love would be a fantastic 3rd or 4th option on a title contender, if he would accept that role. A 44% FG primary scorer isn't going to do much in the NBA in terms of winning, and he isn't even consistently double-teamed. As an "All-Star" primary player, he doesn't win, at least so far in his career.
23.8 Good for the 3rd best among PF's and 11th best league wide. Slightly trailing Nash, Lebron and Howard. Despite being just 22 years old.
His stats would suggest a higher PER, but his mediocre TS% and eFG% make him much lower than he should be. Guy is a stat beast. I agree with this. Not sure what more you expect from people with all of your posts about Love. His team is terrible again this year, and gives up almost 110 ppg.
He has a horrible team around him, yes. You can find stats that make him look bad if you dig deep enough, yes. My flurry of posts about him mainly have to do with posters around here saying I was nuts for wanting him over Aldridge in the offseason. Most those posters have disappeared when it comes to discussion about Love never to face up to the fact that they were wrong.
Was Aldridge for Love ever a realistic possibility? I'd like Chris Paul over Brandon Roy. Think that's going to happen? Shit, let it go. Who said you were nuts? Spamming the board with Kevin Love stats seems more like an obsession than an "I told you so".
