LMA right now =

Siap but spurs are 5.5 favorites for tomorrow

It was 8 on some books this morning

This fool is gonna get more votes than Kawhi for DPOY simply because Kawhi can't win 3 in a row.

aggieactor01 said:

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Be glad you skipped. It was not pretty. Our seats are over near the Rocket's bench and it was surrounded by Rockets fans acting like they were winning the finals after the first quarter.

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On tv I kept seeing some middle aged dude with a throwback jersey on dancing in the isles after each three. Very annoying if I was in that section. He looked like a hyper active jr high kid.

What's her lineup tonight? Sit Little A to start?

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West Texan said:

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I've seen a lot stupid **** posted here tonight (given how crappy the Spurs played), but is someone really arguing for Bob Hill over Pop?!? I suppose next we'll hear how Keith Van Horn would have been better than Duncan had we drafted him instead...

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I am not arguing Bob Hill over Pop. I am just saying that Pop has cost us many games, is overrated and is a product of a great front office. I even said, I don't know how much he had to do with the front office putting together such great teams. If he was instrumental in that, I owe him more credit than I give him. That doesn't let him off the hook for some of his boneheaded coaching, though.

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I find it difficult to believe the Spurs won 5 championships with a subpar head coach, that's just silly. But it doesn't mean he is perfect:

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But dismissing everything that went wrong for the Spurs Monday night as nothing more than a correctable series of errors would be a major mistake. Houston exposed several key flaws in San Antonio's rotation - flaws that were evident before the series began. The question, though, is whether the Spurs' famously stubborn coach, Gregg Popovich, will make the necessary changes before it's too late.

Popovich has earned his reputation as one of the best coaches in the history of the sport, presiding over 20 consecutive 50-win seasons (or, in the case of the 50-game season in 1999, a season well ahead of a 50-win pace), winning five championships and reaching six NBA Finals. But Popovich has never been known as a coach who makes drastic changes during playoff runs. If anything, when things start to go south for San Antonio in a playoff series, they tend to remain that way.

Take last season against the Oklahoma City Thunder, for instance. By dominating San Antonio inside with multi-big lineups featuring Steven Adams, Serge Ibaka and Enes Kanter, the series was crying out for Popovich to deploy Kawhi Leonard at power forward and play small. Popovich finally made this switch in the second half of Game 6, after the Spurs had fallen hopelessly behind in what turned out to be the final game of their season.

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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Gregg-Popovich-s-old-stubborn-ways-could-be-fatal-11115548.php?ipid=brkbar

https://theringer.com/2017-nba-playoffs-lamarcus-aldridge-san-antonio-spurs-132c69008a4e

Obvious article by Shea - LMA is trash and the Spurs need him to not be trash.

Last 11 playoff games since playing good in games 1 & 2 against OKC:

• Averaged 15.9 points per game. (And he hasn't scored 25 points even once.)
• Shot just 41.9 percent from the field.
• Averaged less than eight rebounds a game. (I'd like to remind you that he's 6-foot-11.)
• Averaged less than one block per game. (I'd like to remind you again that he's 6-foot-11.)
• Averaged only 1.3 assists per game.
• And somehow he's been even worse at home (13.4 points per game on 35.8 percent shooting, less than seven rebounds a game).
• LaMarcus is the worst jump shooter in the playoffs among all players who've taken at least 50 shots.
• LaMarcus made as many shots (two) as he had turnovers during Game 1 of the Rockets-Spurs series. (I'll take this moment to point out that he's making over $20 million this season.)
• LaMarcus was a minus-36 in Game 1 of the Rockets-Spurs series, a remarkable stat that's even more unbelievable when you realize he played only 25 minutes. (I'll take this moment to point out that he still has two more years on his contract with the Spurs.)
• If we look at every player who's played a minimum of 1,000 playoff minutes since the invention of the 3-point line, nobody has had a greater decline from regular-season box plus/minus to playoff box plus/minus than LaMarcus. The five worst scores are LaMarcus (minus-2.2), Kenny Anderson (minus-2.0), Marvin Williams (minus-2.0), Nicolas Batum (minus-1.9), and then Karl Malone and Tyrone Hill (minus-1.8).
• (The above stat was first pointed out by Krishna Narsu using Basketball-Reference. It's been updated to include LaMarcus's Game 1 performance from Monday night.)
• (If you get spun around by advanced analytics like box plus/minus, which happens to me often, just know that basically all it's saying here is that he has been really bad in the playoffs compared with the regular season.)

Yeah Aldridge has sucked and he has been a huge disappointment. The worst aspect of this is that Pop and RC clearly made the decision to battle small ball with bully ball. LA and Pau along with Kawhi could theoretically be the antitode because they can post up and dominate the boards. This slows the game down and creates an intriguing matchup battle.

Cleveland basically did the same thing to the Warriors last year. They went away from the Motion and did a lot more iso. This cut down the turnovers and slowed the pace. It's not pretty but it works if you have good iso players. The Spurs clearly want to do this but with more post play. The problem is LA has been brutally bad. He struggled against ZBO and the other night he couldn't even back down on Anderson. Without that production the whole plan is just sh*t.

He struggled against ZBo in Portland, too. LMA doesn't do well against guys that can push him around. Which is ridiculous since he is bigger/stronger than 99% of rotation NBA players.

Guitarsoup said:

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He struggled against ZBo in Portland, too. LMA doesn't do well against guys that can push him around. Which is ridiculous since he is bigger/stronger than 99% of rotation NBA players.

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Maybe we should have Ryan Anderson tested ASAP.

Yep, why sign Gasol and LMA if your plan isn't to counter the small ball by dominating points in the paint and rebounds?

That lack of post scoring (and zero double teams) also makes Green and Dedmon almost unplayable as you can't get away with putting defensive specialist on the floor. LMA's poor play effectively breaks the entire starting rotation and has led to Lee being inserted for more offense and having to play both Mills and Parker at the same time.

You can get away with it against teams like the Griz with offensive problems, but that doesn't fly against small ball offensive teams (rox, warriors and even the Cavs.

Should we start worrying ?

My buddy and I are going decided last minute to get some good seats about 40 rows up from the court! Can anyone say write off he is a client haha

Well, tonight is nut up or shut up time.

I would say it is win or blow the entire thing up actually.

Kawhi is the only player that should be guaranteed to to come back if they lose tonight.

Guitarsoup said:

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https://theringer.com/2017-nba-playoffs-lamarcus-aldridge-san-antonio-spurs-132c69008a4e

Obvious article by Shea - LMA is trash and the Spurs need him to not be trash.

Last 11 playoff games since playing good in games 1 & 2 against OKC:

• Averaged 15.9 points per game. (And he hasn't scored 25 points even once.)
• Shot just 41.9 percent from the field.
• Averaged less than eight rebounds a game. (I'd like to remind you that he's 6-foot-11.)
• Averaged less than one block per game. (I'd like to remind you again that he's 6-foot-11.)
• Averaged only 1.3 assists per game.
• And somehow he's been even worse at home (13.4 points per game on 35.8 percent shooting, less than seven rebounds a game).
• LaMarcus is the worst jump shooter in the playoffs among all players who've taken at least 50 shots.
• LaMarcus made as many shots (two) as he had turnovers during Game 1 of the Rockets-Spurs series. (I'll take this moment to point out that he's making over $20 million this season.)
• LaMarcus was a minus-36 in Game 1 of the Rockets-Spurs series, a remarkable stat that's even more unbelievable when you realize he played only 25 minutes. (I'll take this moment to point out that he still has two more years on his contract with the Spurs.)
• If we look at every player who's played a minimum of 1,000 playoff minutes since the invention of the 3-point line, nobody has had a greater decline from regular-season box plus/minus to playoff box plus/minus than LaMarcus. The five worst scores are LaMarcus (minus-2.2), Kenny Anderson (minus-2.0), Marvin Williams (minus-2.0), Nicolas Batum (minus-1.9), and then Karl Malone and Tyrone Hill (minus-1.8).
• (The above stat was first pointed out by Krishna Narsu using Basketball-Reference. It's been updated to include LaMarcus's Game 1 performance from Monday night.)
• (If you get spun around by advanced analytics like box plus/minus, which happens to me often, just know that basically all it's saying here is that he has been really bad in the playoffs compared with the regular season.)

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SPOT ON.

LMA's nuts need to drop tonight or we going to get f'ing SWEPT.

Listening to ticket 760 this morning and heard this story from a guy who does a featured bit with Mike Taylor..

I wanna come back from 0-3

That's the nail in the coffin for me. Get rid of this lazy ass clown.

(If true)

superunknown said:

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Listening to ticket 760 this morning and heard this story from a guy who does a featured bit with Mike Taylor..

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mike taylor is an idiot

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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That's the nail in the coffin for me. Get rid of this lazy ass clown.

(If true)

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I don't know if it matters. But that story was told near the beginning of last season (the 15-16 season )

LMAo already jacking up bad shots.

Kawhi is feeling it

Pau miss/block Anderson 3 sums up the damn series so far

those second chance points are killing us

Holy **** another Pau point blank miss/block

****

azulAg said:

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those second chance points are killing us

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LOLMarcus watching Capela and Anderson dominate the glass.

Ryno01 said:

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Holy **** another Pau point blank miss/block

****

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But he has three ORs, an assist to Green on an easy 3 shot and packed Harden's **** in the paint.

Guitarsoup said:

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azulAg said:

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those second chance points are killing us

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LOLMarcus watching Capela and Anderson dominate the glass.

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he needs a good kick in the nads

azulAg said:

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Guitarsoup said:

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azulAg said:

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those second chance points are killing us

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LOLMarcus watching Capela and Anderson dominate the glass.

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he needs a good kick in the nads

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This assumes there are nads to kick.

"Probably the best PF ever."

Probably?

When Reggie Miller is calling you out for lack of aggressiveness, you know it is bad LMA.

Guitarsoup said:

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azulAg said:

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Guitarsoup said:

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azulAg said:

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those second chance points are killing us

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LOLMarcus watching Capela and Anderson dominate the glass.

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he needs a good kick in the nads

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This assumes there are nads to kick.

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good point