GAME THREAD: NUGGETS @ BLAZERS - JANURARY 23, 2014, THURSDAY, 7:30 PM (PST), TNT

Why inject falsehood and aggression in this? Why did you change your mind that post scoring was no longer important, and now jump shooting at an efficiency of Andrea Bargnani was fine?

And you're absolutely correct. This Blazer TEAM has won as many games as that team. Not sure what that has to do with your change of opinion that inside (paint) scoring is important.

 

Just found out they have a free trial going on with LP. And I can actually watch the Spurs/Blazers game now!

 

Yes. It's an easy question. I can post your quote that you think inside scoring is important for a playoff team, but now you seem oblivious and/or argumentative whenever I (or anyone else) tries to post that jumpshooting bigs with the efficiency of Bargnani tend not to help the offense as much as shots in the paint. Why the change?

Yeah, it was in the thread where you were peppering me with questions, and after I posted the answers that proved my point, you blew past them and asked another question, and another, until there were no more questions that I hadn't proved.

Which part is the LOL?

 

No, Nate is just making a parody of the Seahawks player's interview from a few days ago.

 

LaMarcus just tweeted this, JJ's face when Dame dunked.

 

Every time LMA hoists a jumper, he gets the same amount of points as every time Andrea Bargnani hoists a jumper. Fact.

And no, I've been "bashing" LMA for his shooting for the last 3 years (do you really want me to bring up the threads?) and, aside from a stretch of about 3 weeks from the time it was confirmed to me that he told mgmt he wasn't resigning here to the time we traded for Robinson and Lopez, I haven't advocated for any LMA trade. And I respected the positions of those who had varying opinions (off the top I can think of discussions with at least Draco and Blazerboy, and I'm sure there were others), even if I disagreed. AFAIK, i didn't ban anyone for any varying opinion. Please stop with that.

Your attacks are getting tiresome, PapaG. Please stop with them and talk basketball.

 

BF, I'm not saying that if he hypothetically shot less, his percentage would go up or if he hypothetically shot more, it would go down. (so to answer the question: no one taught me that)

I'm saying that the historical record and facts (stats, if you like that word better) are that every jumper LMA hoists this year has averaged out to be an eFG of 47%...the same as Andrea Bargnani, who's also almost 7' (if not actually) and who I'm assuming no one would label as an "elite" shooter. LMA doesn't have the efficiency of Dirk or Gasol or KG or Scola or Anderson or all the other bigs I brought up in the other thread. He has consistently shot about 42% on 10-23' jumpers his entire career. Up until the last couple of years, he was second fiddle to Roy and didn't enough that his FG%/eFG% hurt the team appreciably.

And you're kind of making my point on the "counting numbers v efficiency" argument. If LMA was scoring 40ppg on 50 shots, would you say that it's one of the greatest seasons in the last 30 years b/c of the ppg? Or would you say it's "Love-like" because it's putting up stats on a team that would struggle to have an offense as good as MIL (and therefore, a record as good)? Our offense if averaging 109+ points ever 100 possessions. LMA overall has an ORtg (points produced per 100 possessions) of 111, which is good, but actually less than his career highs (during the LaMonster years of 2010-11 and 2011-12) of 114. Because he takes so many of the inefficient jumpers (notice: I'm not saying "STOP SHOOTING J'S!", I'm saying "limit them to ones that are relatively open, and to about 1/2 the shots you take per game"), it brings down his personal efficiency, and brings down the team's, which correlates to wins.

As far as argumentative opinions, I try to back up almost everything I post, especially when they're against the grain.