Comments on: LaMarcus Aldridge doesn’t think he’s shooting too many jumpers, but thanks for asking

By: eugenesaxe

eugenesaxe — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:53:18 +0000

There’s something wrong when he goes 40 minutes and doesn’t shoot a single foul shot.
There’s also something wrong when he’s playing as many minutes as he is period, when the team is in a stated rebuilding year. Burn him out, get him hurt again. Brilliant.

By: zblott

zblott — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:47:33 +0000

With more and more data available, smart fans are now quite aware of how inefficient a player who shoots lots of long-2′s but not many successful shots at the rim or from 3 is to a team. There’s a reason guys like LaMarcus, Kobe, and Gerald Henderson need great offensive rebounders next to them for this type of inefficient pattern to work — a lack of quality rebounders will kill a team with a guy shooting those long 2′s who can’t step back another couple feet and hurt defenses for 3 with some regularity (like Dirk).

Also, at first glance it looks like Aldridge is missing an arm from the elbow down.

http://www.behindthebasket.com/btb/2012/3/3/its-christmas-time-for-analytics-fans.html

By: LPad

LPad — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:09:37 +0000

Something tells me it was questions themselves since the guy who asked them didn’t put them in the paper. Also, 7 -17 is nitpicking one of those jumpers go in and he’s 8-17 47 percent. Either way versatile bigs like Aldrige don’t spend the majority of their time posting up. Can’t use him in pick n roll with Lillard if he’s in post. Can’t spread out the floor if he’s in the post. Can’t run a motion offense if he’s in the post. And if he doesn’t shoot at the elbow or high post teams won’t guard him when he’s there.