How about Aldridge has the stats and is the only one of the 4 that can play good defense on a regular basis? That's why he should be chose above Melo and Dirk. This board has become so negative that it's getting unpleasant to read. At least, Mixum was entertaining in his negativity...
Quite simply, I can see the argument for Dirk on the team over Aldridge (although I disagree with it). Melo is the one I really have a problem with. I don't see any legitimate argument for him.
What does that have to do with anything, shouldn't LMA still be held to the same stats on bad team, or are you misreading what HCP is saying?
Blake Griffin didn't make it last year though. Despite being All Stars, Love and Griffin didn't make any All NBA team and Aldridge did. I have no problem with Aldridge not making it this year. We were horrible. Winning matters. It's why Randolph and Aldridge made it over Love And Griffin last year.
Same here. Its the small town mentality of our fans. I was talking to a buddy the other day who lives in Cali and he's always been a Bulls fan. I said what do you think of Luke Babbitt, he started coming on strong towards the end of the year. He said, see thats whats wrong with you Blazeer fans is you fall in love with scrubs and hope they save the day. Such a small town mentality. I guess he's right.
Maybe because he is an unstoppable scorer. LeBron (defensive player of the year candidate) couldn't slow him down.
meh can't expect la to make it with missing the last of the season and us missing the playoffs. would have needed about five more rebounds a game to pull that one off. Sent from my LS670 using Tapatalk 2
Poll the GM's around the league which player they'd rather have, guarantee the majority would agree: LMA
I love la would rather have him then klove everyday of the week but id thinl gms would choose Love. Sent from my LS670 using Tapatalk 2
Not Melo. Aldridge beats him in both total win shares and WS/48. An unstoppable scorer that shot 43% on the year. He put up 2 ppg more than Aldridge? Coulda sworn there was more to the game than shooting every third time your team has the ball. Aldridge was better across the board than Melo this year. You have to really stretch to argue otherwise.
Nobody is "falling in love" with Luke Babbitt. All he did was prove that he isn't completely terrible. That's a pretty big step up from what most people thought of him. I think if you took a poll, most people would STILL cut the guy right now if they could get the cap space. I think the "small town mentality" comes from having to cultivate all our talent. The big markets feel like they're entitled to all the best players, like a guy should just want to play in LA or NY. Since we almost never get a premier free agent, we either have to draft em or trade for em. That's why we become attached to our guys.
And Blazer fans have to really stretch to try to argue that Aldridge got "screwed". Carmelo and LA Win Share numbers are virtually identical. And you critisize Carmelo's shooting percentage in the playoffs when he was the only player the Heat had to bother guarding. You try playing one on five offense. But try this on - check out LA's numbers in the playoffs. Even in prior season's. Carmelo has had some good playoff series (and some stinkers). LA has never had a good series yet. I personally would rather build a team around LA, but to claim he has been head and shoulders better than Carmelo is not supported by the numbers.
I said nothing about the playoffs. I'm comparing regular season numbers, since this is a regular season award. And I never said Aldridge was "head and shoulders" better; I said he was better "across the board". That is to say, in virtually every metric, Aldridge was better than Melo this year. Shooting, rebounding, PER, TS%, eFG%, win shares, +/-, basically everything other than points and assists. The numbers don't hurt my statement; they support it.
