I looked at his line against Denver of 24 points, 14 boards and three blocks and my initial reaction was: "Well, he's tired. He was due for an off night." I love the new LaMonster.
Agreed. He seemed a little quiet out there compared to what we've been used to, but he still ends up pretty dynamite on the stat sheet. 51 minutes though, yikes.
I think that is because we had balanced scoring for once instead of just the Aldridge and Matthews show. Tonight was Aldridge, Matthews, Miller (though stop shooting forever), Rudy, and of course the Natural himself, Roy. Great effort by these guys.
Pretty funny to think that a "mere" 20-24 point game is now considered "quiet" for LMA ... never thought I'd see the day that happened.
Gotta love it when a double double is a quiet night. He has been playing great. Hopefully Camby is back by Sunday so he can get a little bit of a rest.
Those smaller guys like Harrington still give him fits slapping the ball (and his ass) on every play. But yeah he looked tired in the 4th the last two games. But came up with 2 crutial free throws when the game was on the line. Well done LMA
I had the same sorta discussion with my brother the other night, although it was more the line of "Before the chicago game were Deng killed us and Aldridge dropped 30+ I wouldn't ever bet he would score 30 vs anyone, now when he scores 30 its kinda ordinary."
On another note, Andre was 1 rebound and 1 assist away from a triple double. He battled even if it was not his best game either.
Well he did play 51 minutes....in fact, I think the minutes are more impressive than his numbers. That's just crazy. 49 minutes and then 51 minutes the game after. Just....amazing.
My thought, while watching the game was that with no other big to be found in a Blazer uniform and knowing that LA has been playing like he has been lately, Denver could afford to really focus on stopping LaMarcus and let the rest of the team beat us. If Roy can come back and play like he did tonight (or even close to what he did tonight), Wallace plays like we know he can, we can have a pretty tough team. I'm Pretty darn excited. Gramps...
I think Roy's best (only?) hope is to try and convert himself into a Ginobli/Crawford type scorer/playmaker -- a guy with enough talent to be a starter, but better off as a bench scorer (for whatever reason) -- Hopefully they can find a way to keep his minutes manageable and stretch out his career as long as possible. It's going to be a difficult balance.
I think he can and will do this; the physical limits of his playing time will necessitate this, and LaMarcus transforming into Beast Mode will allow it to be OK to do.
One thing is for sure, if Roy can play and the game is close, he needs to end the game just for his clutchness factor. No way he should sit.
Yeah, I kept thinking he's gotta hit 30 if we're going to win. What a paradigm shift. I agree, fatigue was a huge factor. He also didn't shoot any "pops" tonight. They really weren't leaving him and we really weren't opening for him. That's like a usual 10 points right there.
And people scoffed at me the other day for casually mentioning 30 and 10 as a benchmark for LMA in years to come... 25/10 would have been a safe number to throw out there, but as I started typing it, I couldn't help but feel those sounded like off night figures.
Just mind boggling numbers for February. Could he be player of the month? How does a guy who didn't make the All Star team even end up in a discussion for player of the month? What a tragedy. Feb Stats 28.6 Pts 9.1 Rbs .572 FG% (!!!) .846 FT% 2.5 Ast 1.6 Blk 1.6 Steals 1.6 turnover (for how much he touches the ball? that's a low number) 42.2 Minutes/Game Just as important, the team is 8-3 this month. Could end up 9-3 if they take care of business vs. Atlanta on Sunday. Who's had a better month than LA? Put his numbers against Lebron, Wade, D-Rose . . . he beats them all in the majority of categories.
his averages the last 30 days are... 28 points on 56% 6.5 FTM 10 Rbs 2.3 Assts 1.6 Blks 1.7 Stls STOMP
People scoff because even though he's playing out of his mind right now, you can hardly expect him to average that over a season (let alone his career) because of two things: 1) playing 42+ minutes per night is completely unsustainable, and 2) eventually there will be some more talent around him to take some of the load off. It's not knocking him to say that's unrealistic.
