With the three ball being so popular and analytics telling you the mid-range jumper is a bad shot, the mid-range game is nearly extinct so the Basketball Society will be bringing you “Mid-Range Mondays” where we highlight players who perfected operating in the mid-range area. Check out last week’s edition that featured Tim Duncan! LaMarcus
All statistics per ESPN.com 10.) Kristaps Porzingis, New York Knicks Kristaps Porzingis would be the Rookie of the Year if Karl-Anthony Towns wasn’t drafted first overall. The 20-year-old averaged 14.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game and dropped 21 double doubles. He was booed at the NBA draft and now a cornerstone player on the
Even though the Oklahoma City Thunder escaped with a win against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 2 of the conference semis, LaMarcus Aldridge has thus far established himself as the best player in this series. LaMarcus Aldridge thru 2 games of #SPURSvTHUNDER 39.5 PPG | 33/44 on FG's (75% FG%) | 7 RPG |
NBA All-Star weekend is the best All-Star show in all of sports. NBA stars get together, team up by conference, and battle for conference bragging rights. The starters have been announced, and coaches got to vote on who fills the remaining seven slots on the bench. Many players are deserving of a seat, but will
Signing with the San Antonio Spurs wasn’t just a change of scenery for LaMarcus Aldridge, it was a change of lifestyle and mentality. The transition naturally included having to adjust to a new offensive system, but it’s deeper than that when it comes to being a Spur — as Aldridge told ESPN’s Michael Wright back
I have my webcam finally working again and I have a break in Finals work, so of course I had to record another episode of Fisch’s Friday Rant! So here’s a study guide for what I decided to talk about this week: Rajon Rondo playing like the Rondo from the Boston days The San Antonio
The Portland, Oregon area has only one professional team in the four major sports, and that’s the Portland Trail Blazers. The Portland area loves their Blazers and have had a decent amount of success ever since the franchise got started. When LaMarcus Aldridge was drafted in 2006 the Portland fans knew he was going to
DeAndre Jordan and his kidnapping and/or decision-changing may have been the most movie-like storyline of the NBA offseason, but potentially the most important story was LaMarcus Aldridge spurning the Trail Blazers and Lakers in favor of the less flashy, yet championship ready San Antonio Spurs for $84 million spread over 4 years. The move on
Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum was my preseason pick to win the NBA’s Most Improved Player Award, and that crusade got off to a good start when McCollum exploded for a career-high 37 points, including 22 in the first quarter, in Portland’s season-opening 112-94 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. Dating back to Portland’s
The San Antonio Spurs know what it takes to put together a winning team. Year in and year out they are always right there in the playoff hunt and have celebrated multiple titles over the past decade. It looks like this season will not be much different. They signed highly touted free agent LaMarcus Aldridge