LMA has made the all star team

Turrible.

 

Ugh

PER measures more than just offense, which is clearly what Herbert is talking about there. Aldridge just edges them out because of blks and stls, which obviously aren't offensive statistics.

 

He said efficient, PER is player efficiency rating... pretty straightforward.

 

And the context

 

I don't get what the big deal is? Aldridge has been less efficient this year than in year's past. New offense, coming off a hip surgery, slow start to the season ... and taking more long shots versus shots from post-ups. Who gives a damn about what some panel at ESPN said? He wasn't as good as his last two years, but he was still good enough.

 

Interesting you're making the argument that it's his defense that puts him ahead of Lee and Randolph, yet a guy like Nate Drexler is saying Aldridge doesn't play defense. I guess haters gotta hate.

 

This has nothing to do with Aldridge

It's more of my war of the use of advanced statistics

 

FIFY.

 

A war on math?

 

How advanced statistics are misused all the time

 

Fair enough on the FG%, however if you look at LA's career stats, he typically shoots better from the field the 2nd half of the season. He's also the most efficient of his career from the FT line so far, he's tied for career highs in rebounds and steals, and has a career high in blocks.

 

You can mess with math, but math ain't messin with you!

 

I guess. For me they've always just been one piece of the puzzle when you look at how good a player is or when you might want to compare them to somebody else. Maybe I'm way off, but my guess is that most people use them this way (or at least they should).

 

Regardless of who got snubbed, one thing to keep in mind is that in the past five years, 13 players have been named as injury replacements. In fact, last year was the only one of those five seasons where only one player was replaced. Odds are, someone's going to go down (or fake an injury for the rest), and with dinosaurs like Garnett and Duncan playing in the game, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Steph Curry and Brook Lopez both playing in the All-Star game none the less.

I'll be interested to see what they do if one of the big men out West goes down though. Do they give the nod to Curry, even though he's a guard, or do they go with the next best big man in line, like Gasol, Jefferson, or Ibaka?

 

I think if a person goes down they are going to be replaced with either Curry or Gasol depending on if its a big or a small.

 

any idea when the rookie sophomore game (whatever it's called now) will be announced?

 

I heard Lillard got snubbed to make up for Stephen Curry getting snubbed in the all-star game.

 

Gee, I wonder if Lillard will make it?