Aldridge speaks out again about wanting a real center

It's actually pretty fucking retarded to evaluate talent based on skin color. It's a cop out. If you really knew basketball, you wouldn't have to resort to this idiocy, you'd be able to critique the player by his actual strengths and weaknesses.

 

Doesn't have anything to do with not knowing basketball. People will often set themselves up with a generalization, and still leave it open to a case to case assessment. Lots of people like to say oh, Duke players all suck, or I hate shoot first PGs, or I hate soft euros, etc. It's making broad generalizations, and everyone does it.

 

Hickson for Splitter!

Yeah, SA wouldn't do that but looking around the rosters there aren't any bigs that would come close to what JJ is doing that would be available.

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He's available, S2!

 

So ... Hickson back to Sacramento ... a year after they waived him? Seems likely.

 

Likely?

 

Maybe we should play Nolan Smith at center? I mean history tells us small players don't make good centers, but it's retarded to evaluate him based on height

 

Exceptional straw man you set up there. Almost like you got tons of practice in another forum that wasn't about basketball.

 

Name a current center that is better than prime Bill Walton.

Go Blazers

 

this is just plain silly. just. plain. silly.

your "white american born centers suck" nonsense already got bombed out of the water anyways

 

There have been a smattering of them in the last 10 years. Exception, not rule. Nothing is 100%

Three things you don't do in the lottery if you want to be a good team

1. Don't draft American born white centers

2. Don't draft players from Syracuse

3. Don't draft a player who slides a bit because of injury concerns in college

There are exceptions to all of those, but for the most part they are very solid rules to draft by

 

When someone said, "Lot of qualifiers", you replied:

Now you add another qualifier; In the last 10 years. Not to mention in another thread about how white US born centers, you added the qualifier of; Taken in the lottery.

Seems like you do have a lot of qualifiers, and shouldn't have been LOL'ing at KeepOnRollin when he/she said there were lots of qualifiers. No?

Go Blazers

 

That wasn't a qualifier. Just a number I picked out of the blue. To me it's dumb to go back too far because the game has changed so much. The players playing in it have changed so much as well. Basketball is a black mans sport. Can white men succeed? Absolutely, but it seems to me that fewer and fewer white American's are.

 

My mistake. I guess I thought that you added qualifiers when you went from, "American born white centers" to "American born white centers taken in the lottery in the last 10 years."

Go Blazers

 

It started with taken in the lottery way back when, and it took off from there

 

You wouldn't take Budinger, Parsons, Lee, Kaman or Korver?

But you would take Hansbrough? lol okay....

 

this is just so silly at this point

umm, dont draft white people from gonzaga who play sf and have mustaches

see thats a joke mm, kinda like your nonsense as well

 

It's my opinion. I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. My opinion won't change until, as originally stated, a few drafted in the lottery proves me wrong. Same with players from Syracuse and guys with pre existing medical history falling and drafting them

 

Rony Seikaly is an outlier.

 

nonsense

 

Ok. You think it's nonsense and I don't. Agree to disagree and all that. There is no reason for to continually say so.