Love's numbers are markedly better than Zach's were, though. Zach didn't lead the NBA in rebounds and his PER only broke 20 once as a Blazer. Love's PER last year was 20.7 and it's 24.5 so far this year... if he ends with that level, it will be one of the top 200 NBA seasons ever according to PER. Ed O.
Love did whine about not starting and not being used correctly by Rambis. Now that the entire team is built around Love, they still suck ass. The biggest difference, IMO, is that Love is white, and Zach/LMA aren't. Gotta keep trying to pull White America toward the NBA, eh Stern?
I can see it now..if LaMarcus scores the stats you suggested, and the team wins, it'll "prove" (to some) that he stopped caring. Oh, the ups and downs of this message board. and btw, if you're not sure if I was being snide towards you, check your reputation thingy.
Oh, I know we're on the same page here. We haven't had a lot to cheer about this year, outside of LMA's turning into a franchise player, so when a guy from an 11-win team who gets his ass handed to him by LMA in head-to-head matchups gets chosen because of politics, some of us are going to complain about it.
Love is leading his team to a Top 3 pick. The good news is, they might be able to draft an actual franchise player that can turn his shitty team around. Love might whine because he won't be getting 20/15 anymore though. Haha! I'm sorry I hurt your feelings yesterday, Ed. You're just soooo predictable.
I'd rather have a top three pick and a 22 year-old all-star than Aldridge and the final lottery pick, that's for sure. Ed O.
So, if I'm reading this right, you're saying that the Wolves' future is brighter than the Blazers' at this moment in time. Really?
So if it turns out that Zach leads his team to the 9th seed (or lower) is that going to change how you respond to this thread/post?
Either you're being intellectually dishonest, or you're just flat-out ignorant to what has happened to the Blazers this season, and why they are 1/2 game out of the 8th seed. Which is it? I know the answer, and I'm sure everybody else does as well.
You are not reading that right. If you took the current roster and gave it Love and a top-3 pick, I think it would be better off than the current roster with Aldridge and the final lottery pick. Ed O.
I'd rather have Aldridge who is keeping the team in the hunt for the playoffs (and should continue to, esp once Camby comes back). that does not compute...you just said you'd rather have a top three pick and a 22 year old, than a player who is significantly closer to getting out of the lottery (scratch that...staying out of the lottery).
Because the team needs to rely on Aldridge to be its "franchise player"? It's amusing to me that you expect the Blazers' failures to be explained away due to injury when it comes to Aldridge's team, and yet you ignore that EVEN AFTER THE INJURIES TO THE BLAZERS, the roster is still markedly better than the Timberwolves'. Ed O.
Love is having such a "memorable" season that the coaches who have to game plan for him didn't even vote him into the game. Since stats are the only thing Love has going for him, and since the coaches didn't see fit to vote in a guy having a season that hasn't been seen since 1982-83, I think it shows just how important stat monsters like Love are in the eyes of those beating his team like a drum. The coaches not voting him in really says it all to me.
Who should he have been voted in instead of? His failure to be voted in isn't much of an argument that Aldridge deserves it, as you know. Ed O.
Here you are. The "All-Star" replacement player who has led his laughingstock team to 11 wins in 53 games. Party on, KLover!
