Not against me, against my negative post The forum isn't the same as it once was.....Tangent? I didn't seek the attention. it was brought upon me by Julius. I simply posted a concern I had.
This is utter bullshit! Look at your "Why me" bullshit... and If you knew these threads pisses people off banter... Funny thing is, there was only one poster on your case about this thread; yet you claimed the entire forum is against you. I mean look at your fucking avatar?!?!?! That is exactly what you are after... VICTIM! This is your calling card bro... You play "Victim" all the time. I may have to put your ass on ignore until the season is over, because I don't know how much of your whining I can take this season.
You keep saying against me. I'm not trying to be difficult here, but i said my post. I haven't whined, Mags. I posted a concern and was mocked for it. Do you really not see that? Like all your posts right now. You are the one bring attention to me, not me. You may be right about an avatar change though. That one has been up far too long
So anyway... Because of the reasons I mentioned earlier in the thread I don't think playing the starters as much as we did last year is going to be an issue.
I agree. I think dame and lma will be 33-35 minute players, but batum and Matthews will be closer to 25-30 a game.
For the regular season, is 36 MPG really anything to get worried about from Aldridge and Lillard? If you look at the playoff teams in the West, only SAS Spurs played their best player(s) less than 35MPG during the regular season. Yeah, I wish we could be more like the Spurs, but our best players aren't nearly AARP eligible and our bench isn't deep as fuck. The fact is, the Spurs have so much talent, they can afford to play Duncan, Parker and Ginobili fewer minutes and still finish with the best record in entire league. We don't have that much talent. NOBODY else has that much talent. I wish we didn't but we don't. GSW: Curry and Thompson averaged more MPG than than Aldridge and Lillard LAC: Blake, CP3, DeAndre Jordan all => 35MPG DAL: Monta = 36.9 MPG, 35-year old Dirk = 32.9 MPG for 80 games OKC: 38.5 MPG for Durant HOU: Harden (38.0) and Parsons (37.6) more MPG than Aldridge and Lillard MEM: The only Western Conference playoff team, other than the Spurs, that didn't play their best one or two players as much, or more than Adridge and Lillard. And a lot of good all that rest did them, they still lost in the first round. Maybe if they would have played their starters more during the regular season they would have had a better record and a higher seed and would have made it past the first round. Hard to say. Aldridge has played big minutes ever since his second season. In fact, he's playing FEWER MPG under Stotts than he did under McMillan. Lillard is young and 36 MPG really isn't excessive for a player his age. So, whether starting a thread after ONE PRESEASON game was an overreaction is up for debate, but I'm not sure if the premise that 36 - 37MPG is excessive is a valid one when most other playoff teams play their best players comparable minutes during the regular season. BNM
And they aren't getting any tonight. Does that even it all out? I assume it's something as simple as getting them tuned up for reg season.
Hey, anybody want to talk about basketball? I tried to steer this topic back on track, but no one, including the OP seems even mildly interested. BNM
Then why do you respond with argument, ignoring everyone who has tried to stay on topic with you. You are steering this boat bro, if it sinks its on you.
I talked basketball but it fell on deaf ears..happens around here sometimes. I'm glad MM is posting again. I even repped him the other day for complementing Wes...msg boards need balance and he has a right to his opinions whether I agree or not. MM I don't mean to address you in 3rd person so no offense. I don't think Stotts is overplaying the starters at all but I'm a Stotts fan, so there's that
