The "How are Aldridge, Batum, Lopez, and Matthews Doing?" Thread

Managed to land free tix to the Pacers-Spurs game this evening.

I will be booing #12 vociferously.

 

Aldridge had a good game tonight, but lost to the Pacers. 3 months ago, a Pacer assistant praised a Maverick at halftime, but what would that have to do with the thread topic, former Blazers.

 

That's a bit misleading considering the ratio of 3s he puts up, but his % is still relatively low.

 

Official bash ex-Blazers when they're doing bad, ignore them when they're doing well thread must have been too long for the title.

37 pages of Haterade & counting!

STOMP

 

Myles Turner looked real good against Aldridge last night-- LA got his numbers but the impact was minimal. PG vs Kawhi was a SICK matchup.

 

Wes went 27 minutes in a loss without making a shot again...man did we dodge a bullet there

 

I know he tore his achilles but damn I had no idea it would KILL his shot that BAD this season. My goodness.. Why hes not being benched is beyond me, they should atleast see if he would be better in a 6th man role

 

Kind of feel bad for him but then again he's making $70 million so I really don't. We got great years out of him. The Mavs decision looks worse and worse. He's a full year removed from injury and basically the same as his first games this season.

Wes was awesome to root for here but he wasn't a transcendent player or anything. He was a Jerome Kersey super role player. I could understand the max contract with an injury if he had been Durant or a borderline MVP as Elton Brand was. But Wes was always atrocious on fast breaks, no ball handling, couldn't jump. He's going to be 30 before next season; he's a few years past his athletic prime regardless of injury.

It's mind boggling Mark Cuban makes moves like this; but he wouldn't pay cheaper contracts to keep a title winning team months after the franchise won its only title.

 

You can use the ignore thread option though....I think fans who have invested many, many years in a starting core of players naturally monitor their progress...I watch Batum and Mathews games all the time because I have liked them for so long. There are posts praising Batum and Mathews and even Rolo in this thread but Lamarcus is not gettin' love anytime soon around here. I've enjoyed this thread a lot more than the multiple 90 page Meyers sucks threads....choices

 

If such thing exist I will happily read it all.

I was very sad when we let Wes go... But I understand we are retooling, plus, we dodged a bullet apparently so I'm more than fine now.

 

Wes was never going to be worth that contract and I was glad the Blazers never even entertained the idea. With the injury, Wes priced himself out of Portland. Even without the injury, that contract would have made it much more difficult to build a contender. Plus, we had CJ waiting in the wings. No hard feelings here, just thankful it's Cuban on the hook for it and not the Blazers.

 

Apparently Aldridge is back on the Blazers, and we crushed the Spurs, while LMA was wearing a Spurs uniform AND while playing the Wizards. Impressive.

 

I liked it so I could unlike it.

 

CRUSH = winning by 1 point... now I know

STOMP

 

Also, that's a Minnesota jersey..... looks like Dieng... wtf.

 

I was doing research on the Spurs over/under game and I came across an interesting stat that I thought I would share.

LaMarcus Aldridige has not made a single 3 pointer this year. Now, he has only attempted 15 total this season but he attempted 105! and made 37 for us last year. You would expect him to make at least one (more like 5) so far this season on those attempts.

But this also shows that Pops is keeping his butt in the paint much more than Stotts.

 

Looks like Aldridge had a pretty good night....

 

Will beats Nico...

 

I've always maintained the Warriors can't guard Aldridge. We would've beaten the Warriors in 5 games last year.