agreed. i can't remember the last time i was as confident about the starting center position heading into a season as this year because LaMarcus finally has a guy lining up against him who can allow him to focus more on his game and his strengths.
Not sure if I see what you mean. Last year in 26 minutes he averaged 11.3, 5.6 rbds, and 1.6 blks. That was his first year averaging more than 19 minutes. I suspect he'll get at least 25 minutes in a starting role for us. As a team NO was a decent rebounding team which we are not so I suspect his rebounding will go up a little. Also with our D I think his blocks go up. Obviously a lot depends on his health. Maybe "no way" was a little over board since I really didn't increase his numbers a lot.
That was a single season, which has a decent possiblilty of just being an outlier. In any case he should have a positive impact compared to Hickson or Leonard, so that stats don't really mean that much to me.
Well I hope he could play more then 10 because we wouldn't have Lopez here. 10 for Withey and 38 for Meyers? Ick.
Actually, if you look into the details, it's not much of an outlier. The only percentages that were major variances from his career figures were his AST% (5.3% as compared to career 3.2), and his fouls/36 (2.8, down from a career average of 5). Unlike other production-related stats, not fouling doesn't really lend itself to being fluky. Assuming he gets minutes comparable to what he got last year, there's an excellent likelihood that he repeats his performance from last year.
LMA should have a lot more energy at the end of games now since he won't have to battle centers the whole game.
true, though he usually guarded the other team's best Big in the 4th just as most every team put their best Big on him then too. I'm sure with defensive switches and different lineups he's still going to find himself guarding and being guarded by 5s in every game going forward, but having an able bodied true Center on the roster means he'll be doing it less. STOMP
Well, ya, but that's not what mgb said. He did not battle centers all game. http://www.82games.com/1213/12POR13.HTM#bypos 8% of our C mins as a whole went to LA. http://www.82games.com/1213/12POR15.HTM#bypos Whereas 54% of our C mins as a whole went to JJ.
I didn't really mean to nitpick, although it comes off that way, but it's a common misconception that LA played C for a lot of last year, and it's absolutely not true.
i have to imagine that means on defense? how can they say who is playing where technically on offense?
Exactly. Defensively; Aldridge can play PF; but I have seen almost all the time defenses putting their center on him.
It seems like a tough number to use. I mean, it says that Lillard played ALL of his minutes at PG. And yet we heard after the trade deadline fairly often about playing off the ball.
i think it means defensively, not sure though in any event mags is right, all sorts of teams put their center on LMA, for instance the clips know griffin will get torched so he sees LMA in the post maybe 4/5 times a game (if memory serves)
