Two Blazer Power Forwards better than LaMarcus

When I saw the title of this thread, I expected to see a photo of Luke and Buck.

As others have pointed out, Sheed went deeper in the playoffs than Aldridge, but both Luke and Buck went further than Sheed. Luke and Buck were both leaders, and Brian Grant was much more of a leader on those WCF teams than Sheed. Was it Sheed that went head-to-head against Karl Malone and refused to back down? No, it was Brian Grant.

Praising Sheed as a "leader" because he knew when to defer to his teammates is bullshit. Does a leader get ejected/suspended when his team needs him? Does a leader throw a towel in the face of a teammate? Sheed may have been a lot of things, but leader was never one of them. He also wasn't a "coach on the floor" Everyone has mentioned his title with DET, but has everyone forgotten the following season when he left Robery Horry wide open for the game winning 3 - immediately after a timeout where his coach screamed at everyone in the huddle at least 6 times, do not leave your man to double team, know where Horry is, no threes. So, what does Sheed do, he leaves Horry wide open at the 3-point line to double Ginobili. Dumbest basketball play I've ever seen due to the situation (up 2 with the game on the line) and who he was guarding (Big Shot Bob). Was he also a leader a year later when he guaranteed the Pistons would beat the Cavs and compared the Cavs coming back from down 0-2 to take a 3-2 lead in the series to the sun shining on a dog's ass. Talk about bulletin board material. Great player, yes. Leader, hell no.

And forget Z-Bo. He doesn't belong anywhere on the list of top Blazer power forwards. He had even less post season success than Aldridge. Everyone remembers that breakout series against Dallas, but we lost that series and Zach never made t back to the playoffs with the Blazers (or the Knicks or the Clippers). Do people here not remember how bad those Zach led teams were? After that Dallas series, Zach never played on another winning team in Portland. He was the "leader" of the 27-win 2004-05 team and that horrible 21-win 2005-06 team. He sucked on the Blazers, he sucked on the Knicks and he sucked on the Clippers. After that DAL series, his teams missed the playoffs 8 years in a row. It wasn't until he'd almost worked his way out of the league when he arrived in MEM that he finally got it and became a good all around player and good teammate. Zach in MEM may be a legitimate comparison to Aldridge. Zach in POR is not.

BNM