Slap in the face to our team and our coaches, not just to Dame

I think the allstar nod for LA was actually a nod for coach Pops who will coach the western team. Pops himself would rather go wine tasting than coach the game. The allstar game has more often than not played favorites when it comes to older players. Patrick Ewing was getting in when his game was basically sitting on the bench with ice bags on his knees.

 

Its definitely a team based selection. Also rewarding him for accepting a lesser role on a superior team as Chris Bosh did. Coaches like that more than a player putting up 20ppg on a losing team.

 

Maybe you answered your own question?

 

They're just being defensive because virtually everyone is saying that LMA shouldn't have made the team and the majority of the people are saying that Dame was snubbed.

 

In days prior to the announcement of the selections, of the 8-10 or so different opinions I heard on the local Bay Area sports talk which included various newspaper columnists, NBA beat writers & talk show hosts, not one projected Damian to make the team. They sited the Blazers underwhelming record and the many other solid options at guard as to why he was probably going to be on the outside looking in. Almost all picked Aldridge siting the exact opposite reasons. I'm not aware of these professionals having any reason to root for or against either guy... actually, if anything they'd be rooting for Dame as an Oakland prodigy

It's not personal for them like it is for butthurt fans. They were just making their best guesses based on how the AS selections have worked for decades now. If Lillard is to make it next season, Portland needs to win more.

STOMP

 

Just like Anthony Davis and demarcus cousins won more with their teams than lillard, right?

 

Somehow I didn't spell it out enough. I said that Aldridge was being picked for the exact opposite reasons as Dame was left off. One of the two reasons I listed for DL not being projected by those media types to make the AS roster was that there were so many other good options at guard. Opposite of that was the blah options at the Big spots. The main reason was the Spurs are kicking the crap out of the league and have earned a 2nd spot and much to the chagrin of butthurt Blazer fans (check a mirror) LA is the guy who benefits.

hopefully that helps

STOMP

 

Aldridge was one of the wild card selections, which means Dame could've been selected to the same spot, so the guard/bif argument holds no weight.

And the reason the Spurs are kicking ass is because Kawhi, has finally risen to superstar status..

 

Underwhelming record? We were picked by many of those same "experts" to be in the bottom 2-3 teams in the league. Underwhelming record? We're in the freakin playoff picture right now........ That's ridiculous.

 

The problem is, nobody cares.

 

It's always good to get the yearly slap in the face out of the way before the break, so we can concentrate on more important things.

 

Perfect. Now we sweep warriors in first round and everyone in the media jumps off a bridge after a team with no all stars destroys their stories about the epic warriors season.

 

Great post!

 

Yep.

Kobe, Durant, kawhi, Davis, cousins, green are all frontcourts

Paul, harden, Westbrook, curry are guards

Klay and lma wildcards

Could have been lillard.

And I'm sorry, I'm a fan of the blazers. If posters want to be petulant and call me butthurt go ahead. 24 ppg, 7apg and 4rpg on a team most media outlets thought would be bottom 5 is currently in the playoffs and lillard is our best player. He deserves to be there.

 

Amen brother.


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Exactly this. The Blazers were picked to finish below 30 wins. The Blazers have, so far, overachieved any non-biased observer's expectations. And three time all star Damian Lillard is the best player on this overachieving team. His gaudy stats have already been posted. He's an all star caliber player. Period.

The good thing is Dame knows he's an all star, and he knows he is one whether or not he's selected for the team. He has grown up a bit since last year, and even though he pretty much said he thinks he deserves to be an all star, he gives the impression that he understands "how things work". He's not going to let it affect him negatively. I love the maturity.

 

The problem I have with that is how inefficient his scoring was early on. He's vastly improved in that area of late and is unquestionably playing at an all-star level right now, but the bulk of the season has given the "good player on a bad team" stats stuffer impression to the, uh, more unbiased observers.

Low shooting percentage and high turnover rate makes high ppg and apg somewhat less impactful. And that doesn't even factor in defense, where PGs routinely go off for big nights against us.

 

Low shooting percentage? The dude is shooting a shit ton of threes each game, I believe its like 10 attempts without looking it up. So efg is a much better stat to use. Of which lillard is ahead of Aldridge, Westbrook, cousins, and close to Anthony Davis.

 

What's his efg% by month?

 

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/lillada01/gamelog/2016/