While I agree Aldridge isn't the star player on a championship team, he'd still play a very valuable role in getting to that point. The best way to win in the NBA is to have star players, yes. It's proven (obvious/duh). The way the Blazers are going to have to win is go the Detroit Pistons/Dallas Mavericks route. Have a collection of really good players who aren't quite stars and be 7-8-9 deep.
Among PFs he is 6th per game, 19th per 48 minutes. His stats are inflated by playing so many minutes. http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketball/fantasy/nba/playerstats/13/5/eff/1-3 I'm in favor of trading him only for another star (no older than him), so the argument that says, hold on to a star when you have one, doesn't work against me.
That is the biggest horse shit argument I've read so far. So if someone scores 2 points a game in 4 per game; then that person can score 20 points a game right? See how this straw man is weak right?
Your claim that his inflated minutes have no effect upon his stats is the stink here. You bragged that he is 5th among PFs in efficiency. So he'd still be 5th if he played 4 minutes per game? See how your argument is weak right?
No I see how your argument is wrong because of his on PER. What efficiency tells you is that he is outperforming all but 4 other PFs in the game; even if they had the same amount of minutes. And with your statement; you based your analogy on "EFF" basis, than actual PER.
Oh and based on your site reference. http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketbal...s/players/lamarcus-aldridge/profile/13/25/352 Aldridge out performend these players: J. Thompson +6, Mullens +23, Thompson again +6, Maxiell +25, Patterson +18, Robinson +4, Patterson again +19, Collison +6. Then he only really was outperformed greatly by K. Love -19. In fact, the most efficient PF (Duncan); he almost was tied in performance. So you see your argument is not even close to valid. Aldridge has gone toe to toe with some of the best PFs in the league and did just as well as they did.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=facepalm&go=&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=facepalm&sc=8-8&sp=-1&sk= Look. YOU brought up efficiency, so I was ANSWERING that. Now, you say my answer is irrelevant--because it's about efficiency, not PER!
That page shows that Aldridge outplays non-all stars, and gets outplayed by all stars. In other words, he's a bottom of the barrel all star. (That page doesn't take into account each player's minutes, and whether they actually guarded each other.)
Makes him a Top 24 player, at the very least, and top 7 for the 'best of the rest' in the Western Conference. There are at least 10 teams that can't even make that claim, when you include teams with multiple All-Stars. I wonder why some of you even follow the team. Your opinion seems to be that JJ Hickson is more valuable than LMA. It's laughable to me, and it should be laughable to anybody who knows anything about basketball.
Horrible. Trade him for a lesser player, and hope in the future to get 2 players better than LMA somehow.
PF is more competitive in the West, too, in terms of making the All-Star team. Top 4 or even Top 3 isn't out of the question. But, trade him. He isn't an MVP-level player. The Blazers have All-NBA players and All-Stars every year, so LMA will be easily replaced.
Or we could trade him for a better player, as I advocate. Every year, a Chris Paul or a Dwight Howard gets traded for much less than an Aldridge. The only issue is whether we can hold on to the star, not whether we can get a better player than Aldridge for Aldridge.
Exactly; the trade isn't a better player for Aldridge. It's one year of a better player, and a lottery ticket we might win, but probably won't, with the prize being a better player than Aldridge for more than one year. That's a big gamble.
In 1997 the Sonics prepared to trade Shawn Kemp (age 27, same as Aldridge now). Wally Walker knew he could have anyone except Jordan (see list). He was offered Karl Malone a month after Malone won league MVP. How did he decide on who to take from this list? http://bkref.com/tiny/a2XDF Walker chose Vin Baker (age 25), way down at #20, because Baker was on a new contract. He was sewn up for several years and the Sonics wouldn't have to worry about his ditching them. THAT'S how you do it. EASY. (Although I admit that Aldridge is no Kemp, so choices would be a little more limited, but still very plentiful.)
