http://stats.nba.com/tracking/#!/player/defense/ If you look at the link, Robin Lopez is 8th in the entire league for defensive impact (only Hibbert, Davis, Gasol, Sanders, Jordan, Jefferson and Bogut are in front of them). But going further, Kaman is 22nd. There are only one other team has a combo of 2 players in the top 22 or higher. But if you look even further down, Aldridge and Batum are 46th and 47th in the league. That means we have 4 players in the top 50 in defensive impact in a game. That's pretty fucking cool!
Just to be clear, this is defense at the rim, not in general. Good numbers but it does fall off a bit as you go down in terms of relevancy. Kyle Korver is ahead of LMA.
I believe that. LMA usually does not make the effort to be a good defender. Last game he moved out of the way and gave Lawson an uncontested layup.
players in todays game are not fundamentally sound. the Mere fact more than half of the time Aldridge gets the ball when he swipes down shows that.
dunno if they have enough bandwidth on the interwebs to show all them... but the houston series and SAS series is always a good start. he's not a bad defender, but hes not good either. he's lukewarm.
so he should be getting better with more practice, right? then again, my biggest bugaboo isn't that... its that he needs to stop taking so many damn jumpers.
i could. i remember 3 off the top of my head from that series. but im really engrossed in this show so im gonna watch it on my tablet and shitty on screen keyboard instead. Priorities.
Wow 3 plays of a 6 game series, where there must have been a 10-12 plays against him per game average. Yeah he must be shit. Do you think we win the series without him too?
for reals though, im on the worst device for putting together videos and such. im always on the fence with lma because i dont think hes reached his cieling offensively or defenseivily. which is scary and awesome.
I personally think Aldridge is a team player. Of course he can do those 40-50 point games, but why would he? He involves his team and that spreads. He is truly a Duncan light. He's the next best thing
Aldridge plays olé defense in the first half but cranks it up near the end. He is all about not picking up early fouls.
