Iv always been high on sabonis my all time favoritr blazer. I think if he had come over earlier he would not just be in the alltime great center discussion but also the top 10 greatest players ever. A skill set so unique that no other center to play in the nba has ever had. He was a guard in an ultra athletic big body. Sent from my LS670 using Tapatalk
They didn't. The Soviets allowed him to leave in 1989, but Sabonis CHOSE to play in Spain for six years over the NBA. BNM
Interesting, I'd never heard that ... I suppose it's awfully tough to argue with getting a chance to live and work in Spain over going half-way around the world to an NBA backwater where it rains 7 months out of the year.
Do the players with PERs near LMA not play the first 3 quarters? All you're doing is making a case that LA's PER may get better as he gets more comfortable in the go-to role. Would you prefer if he didn't play the first 3 quarters so his PER wasn't so high? Then we would have no need for a clutch time performer.
I know another player that gets all his stats in the first three quarters and shrinks like a middle school girl at a school dance in the 4th...
He was paid a LOT of money to play a much shorter schedule - this was after his achilles injuries and he wasn't sure his body would hold up to the long, grueling NBA schedule. He won multiple MVP awards and multiple championships during his six seasons in Spain. BNM
We all later found out that (there was a good chance) Sabonis went to Spain because his trusted Russian coach steered Sabonis there. http://news.opb.org/article/giant-questions-haunt-blazers-fans-and-their-hall-fame-lithuanian/ http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story_2nd.php?story_id=131301031819329900 I seem to remember a few years ago a mention of a rumor that the coach was paid (without Sabonis' knowledge) appx $50,000 for delivering Sabonis.
Sort of. It was his choice, but it seems like a choice strongly influenced by someone who may not have necessarily had Sabonis' best interest at heart (or at least thought that going to the NBA wasn't the best thing for Sabonis). Although it does seem that we may have been able to get him over earlier if we had have pushed harder. http://www.grantland.com/print?id=6867508 http://news.opb.org/article/giant-questions-haunt-blazers-fans-and-their-hall-fame-lithuanian/
Irrelevant to the fact that his PER comes from the first 3 quarters. I said two Batums would win us more games than one Aldridge, not one LeBron James. I didn't mention James.
What's irrelevant is your entire premise that he doesn't perform well in the 4th, so his PER should be disregarded. If you want to talk about 4th quarter performance, you're in the wrong thread. Start a new thread. Same as saying somebody should trade 2 Batum's for somebody that doesn't perform in the 4th quarter. I didn't either. I responded to some hypothetical player that doesn't perform in the 4th quarter. You're making the assumption it is Lebron. So we should trade LA for 2 Batum's because he doesn't perform in the 4th quarter, but "not one LeBron", who also doesn't perform in the 4th quarter. Why are you such a LeBron fan-boy?
Well, if LeBron is worth 2 Aldridges, and 1/8 of each player's results come in the 4th quarter, then LeBron gets the same results as Aldridge would if he had good 4th quarters. (2 x 1/8 = 1/4) Also, since 2 Batums > 1 Aldridge, then 3 Batums < 1 LeBron < 4 Batums. If you think this is irrelevant, then you need to start a new thread.
If there was 3 Batums or 1 batum and an Aldridge. I would take Aldridge and Batum. Aldridge is more valuable than 2 Batum's because his game is at a different level. Also, he has a dynamic game of inside, outside and rebounding. Something Batum isn't qualified to carry a team with.
He's not... making the rest of your post gibberish, and again, irrelevant. Damn. You do people taxes with math and logic skills like this? That sequence doesn't come close to being logical. To make it easier for you, try plugging in the following numbers: Batum = 2. LA = 3, Lebron = 5. Doesn't work, does it? It isn't only irrelevant, but completely lacking in logic and reality. This thread was about production, as measured by PER. You should start a new thread on the random tangent you went on where you invented new math rules.
