NBA Western Conference Finals 2017

[ShelC]

I get what people are saying and he looked awful, but the Spurs weren't exactly force feeding him the post and they were missing their starting PG and top perimeter threat/best player.

[carey]

I get what people are saying and he looked awful, but the Spurs weren't exactly force feeding him the post and they were missing their starting PG and top perimeter threat/best player.

Right. Not an apples to apples comparison but if the Warriors were without Steph & Draymond and the Spurs had Parker & Leonard I'm thinking it is an entirely different series.

[ShelC]

It'd be like the Ws missing Curry and Thompson and starting Livingston and Iguodala with Durant as the go-to guy, but Kerr/Brown still trying to play the spread/passing offense where everyone's shooting 3s.

[O_Gardino]

It's not about the numbers being bad, it's about winning as the go-to guy. Aldridge's numbers aren't bad at all, either. But none of those guys won when the offense worked through them, and they play like a better version of Robert Horry when the perimeter stars are in the game.

[Ring_Wanted]

Aldridge is a very good second-ish, third option. He was silently killing the Warriors in the first game, but he can't do it alone. Kawhi's injury robbed us from a terrific series. I see no reason to move Aldridge unless you could get an allNBAer big or guard. He's no Horford.

[Mori Chu]

Aldridge is just fine. Not every player needs to be an alpha dog, a #1 guy. They already have that in Kawhi. In fact you can get into problems if you have 2 or more guys who both think it is "their" team. LMA fits just fine into what the Spurs are doing. They just lost their best player, is all.

[bajanguy008]

Aldridge is just fine. Not every player needs to be an alpha dog, a #1 guy. They already have that in Kawhi. In fact you can get into problems if you have 2 or more guys who both think it is "their" team. LMA fits just fine into what the Spurs are doing. They just lost their best player, is all.

I agree Marty with he should be fine in SA . I personally was just thinking about how hard we courted him in free agency. I'm assuming we wanted a go to all star big to pair with our backcourt so watching him without Kawhi I was just wondering if maybe Spurs beating us to his signature was not such a bad thing. He seemed like a build around guy in Portland so I guess the truth is somewhere in the middle