If you hadn’t been following the Spurs prior to today and decided to look up LaMarcus Aldridge’s season stats, you would see a very solid line of 19 points on 51.7 percent shooting, 6.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 2.1 blocks. The 51.7 percent would actually be the second highest mark of his career, falling only 0.2 percentage points below his career high of 51.9 percent that he achieved last season.
If you have been following the Spurs, you know that Aldridge’s season stats do not tell the entire story. Prior to the Spurs’ game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, he was shooting only 44.