LaMarcus Aldridge Wants Chicago Part 2

[jc23]

Sports Whispers ‏@SportsWhispers #NBA: #Blazers will only trade L.Aldridge if it includes: Al Horford, Anthony Davis, Brook Lopez, or Blake Griffin (The Oregonian)

that is basically trading value for value right there. How often does that happen in the NBA?

[pylb]

Um I like Noah and all, but if we have to give him up for Aldridge, we better do that ASAP!

Aldridge is a WAY better scorer and is only barely behind Noah in rebounds and blocks.

If we get him and can draft Gorgui Dieng the team will be so much better with just those 2 moves.

He's way behind Noah in terms of defense though. And the center is the most important defender on a team.
The only center out there that would give better D than Noah is Howard.
(Gasol is also terrific but in a different way, he can't switch like Noah and would be a worse fit).
If Aldridge allows us to score 8 more points but also allows 8 points to be scored, it doesn't help.
Noah's a better player than Aldridge.

[ChiefILL53]

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
The Boston-Brooklyn discussions for Garnett and Pierce are serious, several team sources tell Y! "Deal could get even bigger," source says.

Dear lord....

[OldSchoolNoBull]

god i hate the lakers. The heat hate will pass but the lakers will always be the yankees of the NBA for me.

I think he's probably talking about the Clippers.

Probably the Lakers because of their (probable) inability to re-sign Dwight.

The Clippers already have Blake.

But the Clippers wanted to put a PF/C(as opposed to a pure C) next Blake w/the KG talks. Maybe they want DeAndre+whatever for LMA....LMA/Blake/Caron/JCraw/CP3?

[ChiCitySPORTS#1]

Time to save pierce and kg from Boston.

[The Kane]

I don't get some of you people. Every time a potential second option comes up, you guys nitpick their every single weakness and overrate our players. You people are afraid of change. WHO THE HELL DO YOU WANT? Lebron? Durant? Guess what? We aren't getting them. This same thing happened with Melo. Refusing to trade a role player for a superstar is pathetic. Not saying Aldridge is a superstar, but what he is is a legit second option who destroys us and Miami consistently but you don't want to trade Noah for him, a guy who put up 6ppg/9.8rpg/30%FG in the 2011 playoffs against Miami, and 9.8/9.2/37% FG in the 2013 playoffs (he allegedly was fully healthy at this point, so don't try to use Plantar Fascitis as an excuse, and even if you do, that just proves my injury prone point).

LaMarcus vs. Miami in the Big 3 Era:

31points, 14rebounds, 52%
26points, 4rebounds, 55%
20points, 6rebounds, 55%
20points, 15rebounds, 31%
29points, 5rebounds, 65%

Average: 25.2ppg, 8.8rebs, 51.6%fg.

Let's stop acting like Noah is Superman. Besides rebounding he disappears against Miami plain and simple. We need to start evaluating guys on whether they can help us against Miami, because tbh it doesn't matter what they do during the regular season, if they disappear against Miami they are worthless to us.

This team obviously does not have enough to beat Miami as constructed. We've been plagued by injuries 3 years in a row. This team is injury prone, and that isn't going to magically change just because you want it to. THIS TEAM CANNOT GO A FULL SEASON WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT INJURIES. Read that sentence again and let it sink in. Three years in a row isn't a coincidence. We need to get rid of some of these injury prone players, and Noah is one of those guys. I love him, and would try every other option to get Aldridge, but if at the end of the day they won't take anyone but Noah, we need to man up and have the courage to take a risk, because in this league, teams who twiddle their thumbs and wait on great players to fall into their laps lose out. We have to go out and make a deal happen. This is the perfect deal to put us over the hump, and an irrational overvaluing of Noah shouldn't stop us from doing that again like we already did with Melo. Noah for Aldridge straight up is a good deal.

[Ralphb07]

If I were the Bulls I'd get in on this Boston/BK deal. I don't see KG wanting to go to BK.

[Magilla_Gorilla]

Time to save pierce and kg from Boston.

I'm not interested in trading for the 36 & 37 year old duo.

[Left Hook]

Hold on. I was thinking about this and I know the chances are slim to none, but let's give in and trade Noah to Portland for Aldridge.

YES trade Noah right away!! Yeah, we would be losing Noah's energy, but Aldridge is a better player. If we can get Dieng in the draft we'll have a good defensive center back up

[aaqubed]

Sports Whispers ‏@SportsWhispers #NBA: #Blazers will only trade L.Aldridge if it includes: Al Horford, Anthony Davis, Brook Lopez, or Blake Griffin (The Oregonian)

Deng and the Charlotte pick to Atlanta, Horford to Portland, Aldridge to the Bulls. Git er done.

[Magilla_Gorilla]

Sports Whispers ‏@SportsWhispers 6m
#NBA: #Blazers will only trade L.Aldridge if it includes: Al Horford, Anthony Davis, Brook Lopez, or Blake Griffin (The Oregonian)

Looks like Aldridge is staying in Portland. All of those guys are better than LMA (save the rookie who still has to prove it).

[OldSchoolNoBull]

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
The Boston-Brooklyn discussions for Garnett and Pierce are serious, several team sources tell Y! "Deal could get even bigger," source says.

Dear lord....

Why in the hell does Boston do this? They get Humph and his expiring and G.Wallace who is on contract through 2016? How does that fit a rebuilding plan? Are the picks BKN is going to give up worth it? Boston better off waiving Pierce, trading KG for expiring w/o taking back a bad contract like G.Wallace, and tanking 13-14.

[blumeany]

If I were the Bulls I'd get in on this Boston/BK deal. I don't see KG wanting to go to BK.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=kdv6rfw

[Left Hook]

A major reason Noah has so many rebounds is because he's rebounding his own missed shot. TRADE him

[ryannik09]

Who cares what Sports Whispers says? The next time they are right about something will be the first time.

[tgmxd]

If I were the Bulls I'd get in on this Boston/BK deal. I don't see KG wanting to go to BK.

I'd much rather have Noah and KG over Aldridge and someone that sucks.

[BahamaBull]

If the deal goes through cant see Rondo in Boston...

[Kingjju4]

Sports Whispers ‏@SportsWhispers 6m
#NBA: #Blazers will only trade L.Aldridge if it includes: Al Horford, Anthony Davis, Brook Lopez, or Blake Griffin (The Oregonian)

I wonder who Atlanta would take for Horford?

[Magilla_Gorilla]

If I were the Bulls I'd get in on this Boston/BK deal. I don't see KG wanting to go to BK.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=kdv6rfw

That doesn't make us better next season - and we could dump salary more effectively by letting Deng walk and amnestying Boozer.

[jl342323]

once again, chicago is a team that people toy with.

it was lebron and dwaded, then now its portland and lamarcus aldridge.