wizmentor

If you are going to point out Sheed's good points as a favorable comparison, then you must point out his bad points as well.

I'm still a big Sheed fan, but...
Sheed's not a hard worker off the court.
Sheed's not a great teammate to all of his teammates.
He racks up technical, and can be thrown out of an important game easily.
He refuses to be a leader (he doesn't need to be in Detroit, but we needed him to be).
etc. etc.

LMA has shown a lot of improvement from his rookie year. I expect that to continue.

I disagree with others that he needs Oden, but that will no doubt help him.

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MrJayremmie

Dude, he is one of the best young PFs in the game. I'm sure any team would want him, a 22 yr. old playin' injured, and really the only post player on the team, and gettin 17 and 7? He is a freakin' beast.

I haven't cared at all that he is missin' shots right now, we aren't makin' the playoffs and he is playin' hurt, but he is missin' them IN THE POST. It will come with time, his upside is unreal, and his physical play and rebounding is gettin' better and better. remember that he is the hardest worker on the team and that Oden is comin'. Imaginge gettin' a PG like Harris who will beat his man into the lane and drop it off for a dunk with ease, or throw up an alley oop with ease..

God a PG that can take some of that pressure off Roy sounds sooo good.

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MrJayremmie

so from these 2 posts, let me get this straight.

You'd take a Rasheed Wallace with worse stats, with better defense, but is not a hard worker, doesn't work well with teammates, gets technicals, isn't a leader... over LaMarcus who is 22, a great team player that everyone likes including the fans and management, who has amazing upside, who has inside and outside low post games, who is a hard worker, and who is the perfect piece with Oden?

hmm... sounds like you have somethin' against Aldridge, because Aldridge, specially for this team, is way better than Rasheed...

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Sonny-Canzano

You're seriously underrating Rasheed. Right now, LMA is nowhere near the player 'Sheed was in Portland, not even close. You can talk about off the court antics, but Rasheed plays like a winner.

Shane Battier is a better PR guy than Carmelo Anthony, so do you take Battier over 'Melo? I think not.

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MrJayremmie

^i didn't say that LaMarcus was better. I said that for this team he was better.

I'm pretty sure LaMarcus has better stats then rasheed in his 2nd year. Not 100% sure but i thought there was a thread on it, and Bosh also.

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drexlersdad

it is just plain foolish to think that Charlie Villanueva would get ANY of lma's minutes.

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e_blazer1

Oh goodie. Another Sonny hates LMA thread. It's deja crap all over again.

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Oldmangrouch

This part of your argument I actually agree with.......but dude, it is time to give it a rest!

You are falling into the same frustration based BS that caused Sheed and Zach to be run out of town. Yes, LMA needs to improve parts of his game. OTOH, we have 10 guys on the team who are *worse* than he is! Let's show some perspective.

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It's_GO_Time

Sonny is probably bringing this all upon himself . . . but he seems to get more dished out at him than the Miles, Jack, and Nate haters who post the same type of stuff repeatedly.

MAS RipCity

playmaker or sonny..who is the worst poster ever at bbb.net? Your act is getting old sonny..please quit it

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nikolokolus

It wouldn't be so bad, except one gets the feeling that these LMA posts are kind of like listening to a piano with just one key. *dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink...* (I think you get the picture).

Public Defender

Perhaps because, unlike the Nate critics and the Jack haters, Sonny seems to be an Army of One. No one else, as far as I can tell, is so single-mindedly critical of a player whom the rest of the BBB Blazers' board thinks is actually quite good.

Aldridge has All-Star potential, whether he'll get there or not is another matter. Jarrett Jack? I think it's the consensus of the board that he's got some pretty rough aspects to his game, to the point where they really overshadow what he does well. And Nate? Well, if you're not second-guessing the coach, you're not a sports fan. 'Nuff said about that. Darius Miles? What on earth is there really to say about him? I just ignore the threads about Darius, to be honest. But Aldridge, now there's a guy worth talking about...

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